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Get rich, then buy a face: Cosmetic surgery is the new sign of ‘making it’
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(Clockwise from top left) British-American TV host Sharon Osbourne, reality TV star Kris Jenner and US media personality Lauren Sanchez Bezos.
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Amy Odell
NEW YORK – If you spend enough time around the very rich these days, it is clear. People did not use to look like this because people cannot look like this naturally.
Models in a Paris Fashion Week show for the luxury brand Matieres Fecales in March caricatured the 1 per cent by wearing prosthetics that resembled post-op faces, including grotesque under-eye bulges, skin pulled up from their temples and lips that appeared unnaturally inflated and stitched at the edges.
