Plastic Surgery Confessions

Tales of Taboo

Ali Weiss

Society & Culture

4.8 • 725 Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2022

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Plastic surgery is more commonplace than ever, yet remains deeply taboo. Very few people are willing to openly discuss the realities: what drives them to want it, the intense recovery process, and whether or not physical alterations actually change mental and emotional wellbeing long-term. This week, we’re cutting deep — no pun intended.

Encouraged by controlling mothers, modeling agents, and media-fueled beauty standards, our anonymous confessors got labiaplasties, breast reductions, nose jobs and revisions, and gobs of facial filler. While some healed fast and say these procedures undoubtedly changed their sense of self-worth for the better, others experienced terrible (occasionally irreversible) side effects like leaking spinal fluid, lip bubbles, lopsided nostrils, and blood hardening.

I also interviewed 2 popular plastic surgeons (at 48:51) - Dr. Tony Youn (TikTok: @tonyyounmd) and Stuart Linder (TikTok: @dr.stuartlinder). We break down the most common complaints women have about their appearances (and the difference between insecurity and body dysmorphia), who really controls beauty standards (Men? Hollywood? Biology?), and which procedures the Kardashians and Bella Hadid have done, including the infamous - and potentially deadly - Brazilian Butt Lift.

~ Tales of Taboo is produced and narrated by Ali Weiss. Follow Ali on Instagram & TikTok @aliweissworld. Audio production by Zoe Kuhlkin & WTF Media. Theme song by Chris Stathopolous. Cover photo by Erika Flynn. Cover art by Kristen Montenegro. GOT A SECRET TO GET OFF YOUR CHEST? Share your own confession - or thoughts and feedback - at [email protected].

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0:00.0	Hello, my beloveds. It's another beautiful week in hell. Congratulations on surviving. And welcome back to the only podcast that is 100% scientifically guaranteed to make life worth living. Tales of Taboo. My name is Ali Weiss. I am a downtown New York Z-List host, writer, performer,
0:42.7	and all-around professional conversationalist, literally, who is obsessed with all people,
0:49.3	experiences, careers, and ideas outside the bounds of what society considers traditionally acceptable or accessible
0:57.8	or quote unquote normal. Each week I invite my audience and their friends and their friends of
1:05.5	friends to share their unconventional life stories behind the shield of complete anonymity.
1:12.4	And the result of this is half investigative journalism and half fluffy, raunchy, rowdy, daytime TV.
1:20.2	And I guarantee it is unlike anything else you have heard in this sonic space.
1:27.0	Very excited about today's episode because we are talking about
1:31.0	plastic surgery. Let me start by saying that I strongly believe everybody has the right to look
1:40.4	exactly the way they want to all the time, regardless of how they accomplish it.
1:46.1	Like, if the way that God made you, contrary to what Lady Gaga preaches in born this way,
1:50.8	is not up to your discerning standards, then by all means you should do something about it.
1:56.7	Like, if you think that that, quote, unquote, human kendall who always shows up on the daily
2:01.7	mail is like really on to something, hell yeah. If you want your skin to be so tight and shiny that you
2:10.3	look like a made up corpse at an open casket funeral, that is also genuinely okay with me. Or even if you just don't like your Jewish
2:20.3	nose, you don't like that your nose immediately gives away your Judaism on your otherwise
2:25.1	ethnically ambiguous face, like rock out with your cock out. And that applies to both ladies and
2:31.0	gentlemen. I myself have never gotten any plastic surgery procedures, but that's only
2:37.3	because I haven't felt as though I needed them. But when there comes a time in my life where I feel like
2:44.9	an element of my physical appearance is holding me back from being the best version of myself,
2:50.4	then yeah, I'm going to do
2:52.1	something about it. Life is short and we only get one life and I personally don't want to waste any time
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