Can Plastic Surgery Keep Up With AI?

Under the Influence with Jo Piazza

Jo Piazza, Influence Inc.

Society & Culture, Parenting, Kids & Family, Personal Journals, Technology

4.3 • 787 Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

What happens when filtered faces look more real than real ones? This episode dives into the strange collision of plastic surgery, social media, and AI. Why are celebrities suddenly confessing to nose jobs and boob lifts? And how is the algorithm shaping what we think we’re supposed to look like? We talk to top plastic surgeon Dr. Jonathan Zelken about what’s actually possible—and what’s pure fantasy. When perfection is everywhere, it’s hard not to feel like your perfectly good, perfectly human self somehow isn’t enough. Learn more about Dr. Zelken here. Join our newsletter community here. Pre-order EVERYONE IS LYING TO YOU here. Visit our lovely sponsors here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	So, what are you watching at the moment?
0:01.8	Squid Game, Dad.
0:03.0	Let's watch it together this weekend.
0:04.9	Would that be nice?
0:06.0	What's it on again?
0:06.8	Netflix. You've got EETV, so you just switch it on. What season are we up to? Um, four? That's Stranger Things, Mum. And what about the kids? Don't worry, they'll watch Coca-Mellon for the hundredth time. Switch on Netflix with EETV, plus change up sports and entertainment.
0:04.5	It's TV with the ultimate flex for the hundredth time. Switch on Netflix with EETV. Plus change up sports and entertainment.
0:22.4	It's TV with the ultimate flex for the whole family.
0:25.4	EETV requires EEB Broadband, separate 24-month contracts for TV and broadband content of airy-term supply.
0:35.9	Hello, Joe here and you are listening to Under the Influence. Now, I want to start this episode
0:41.4	out by saying that you are absolutely perfect the way that you are. And you know what? So am I.
0:48.3	I love me. I do. This episode happens to be about feeling like you aren't perfect. And so I think that's an important reminder to tell everyone.
0:57.0	Because one of the biggest problems with social media, and I've been talking about this a lot on the road for my book,
1:04.0	is that it really makes a lot of us feel less than.
1:08.0	And that could be about anything. It makes us feel a ton of guilt and shame that we're not
1:11.7	being quote unquote perfect or quote unquote good mothers. It also makes us feel like our bodies
1:17.9	aren't doing the things that bodies are supposed to do. I mean, I get served videos of young women
1:23.5	with abs of steel every day telling me that if I just buy their protein powder and their
1:28.8	workout course, that I'm going to look exactly like them. And here's the truth. The truth of it all
1:35.0	is that the secret to their abs of steel is youth. I had abs like that when I was young too,
1:42.1	and I was not huffing protein and I was not doing their
1:45.2	workout. My diet was pretty much Parliament lights, beer, cheese, and bad decisions. But bodies
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