Miami has a reputation as a city for beautiful people, and Co Louth sisters Sidhbh and Neasa Gallagher are working at the core of this idea with their plastic surgery business.
Sidhbh has lived in the US for almost two decades. She trained as a plastic surgeon in the midwest, a speciality unavailable to her after medical school graduation in Dublin.
When she moved to Miami in 2020 to set up her own private practice, she was joined by her younger sister. Neasa, a trained primary schoolteacher, had been working in Dubai and moved across the Atlantic to become the business office manager.
Sidhbh loves the work’s ever-evolving variety: “I am very lucky there is always something new.” The explosion in GLP-1 use is one of those new factors, with an estimated one in eight people in the US having taken the drugs for weight loss.
“Weight-loss drugs have changed the face of the practice a lot. People with loose skin have become a huge part of the practice, getting a tummy tuck or an arm lift.”
