Beauty, Aging & Plastic Surgery: Understanding the Changing Beauty Conversation (The Edge)
Velvet's Edge with Kelly Henderson
iHeartPodcasts
4.5 • 927 Ratings
🗓️ 13 March 2026
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
After Kelly’s conversation earlier this week with Beverly Hills plastic surgeon Dr. Rady Rahban, she and Chip zoom out to talk about the bigger beauty conversation happening right now.
Plastic surgery, Botox, and cosmetic procedures are more visible and openly discussed than ever before. Instead of judging the trend, Kelly and Chip explore why these conversations seem to be everywhere — and how social media, modern beauty culture, and evolving expectations around aging may be shaping the way we think about appearance.
They also discuss whether beauty pressure is changing for both men and women, how appearance standards show up in different communities, and the line between self-care, self-improvement, and feeling like you constantly need to “optimize” how you look.
This episode isn’t about telling anyone what they should or shouldn’t do — it’s about understanding the cultural moment we’re in and having an honest conversation about beauty, aging, and the choices people make around their appearance.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:15.6 | Giggle, giggle. |
| 0:16.7 | We're just over here just giggling this morning. |
| 0:19.2 | Well, I just listen to the podcast um and i'm i'm |
| 0:22.7 | kind of obsessed with him he's amazing is he i mean i literally i sent to my producer and he was like |
| 0:29.7 | well he's passionate well i just love how he's like totally and i just love that he like is obviously serious but doesn't take himself too seriously |
| 0:40.6 | where he was like, oh my God, you can see 50, you can open my office window and see 50 other |
| 0:46.7 | plastic surgeons. |
| 0:47.8 | It's like, damn Seattle with Starbucks, one on every corner. |
| 0:51.3 | I mean, I'm paraphrasing, but it was just so funny. |
| 0:53.8 | And also like humbly honest. And also, like, |
| 0:55.6 | humbly honest, you know? Oh, for sure. Yeah. I didn't know, like, all that shit that he |
| 1:01.8 | talked about, like, how, you know, if you're a, any sort of surgeon, you can kind of do whatever |
| 1:07.6 | surgery you want. So this is, for the listeners, by the way, hi guys. |
| 1:12.4 | Hi. |
| 1:13.4 | Hi. |
| 1:14.4 | I came in hot this, my coffee is like in the vein. |
| 1:16.3 | He's wearing snuggy. |
| 1:18.0 | He's just like, it's cold again in Nashville. |
| 1:20.3 | Come on, spring. |
| 1:21.5 | Like, let's have it. |
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