For the curious or naive, Instagram and TikTok are great demystifiers of celebrity plastic surgery. I only recently learned this (belatedly) after making an offhand comment to friends about how well and naturally I thought Emma Stone was aging.
Egg on my face — and apologies to Stone for dragging her into this — because, over the next 24 hours, my group chat lit up with forwarded posts of doctors annotating her mug like it was a football replay. They dropped terms like surgical brow lift, blepharoplasty and endoscopic facelift. Each procedure is delivered after a “possible,” the allegedly in the courtroom of social media, though the tone leaves little room for doubt. These are professionals, pulling back the hospital curtain.
Educated speculation made these plastic surgeons and aesthetics experts niche stars in their own right. And since they’ve infiltrated my algorithm, I’ve noticed that many are starting to use their platforms for more than analyzing actresses and posting before-and-after shots of their own clientele. Social media’s doctors are suddenly anxious to debunk the gospel of looksmaxxers.
Anthony Youn
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