Posted on 08/20/2004 11:01:06 AM PDT by lizol
Berlusconi hair mystery revealed by Italian surgeon
ROME (AFP) - The mystery of Silvio Berlusconi's rapper-style bandana was explained when plastic surgeon Piero Rosati told the Milan daily Corriere della Sera that he had performed a hair transplant operation on the Italian prime minister.
The 67-year-old premier wore the unusual head-dress in greeting British Prime Minister Tony Blair (news - web sites) earlier this week and later when he pressed the flesh Thursday at Porto Rotondo, near his palatial vacation residence in Sardinia.
"A little more hair is even better," Berlusconi said when a young boy complimented him on the bandana.
Rosati said he had transplanted some of Berlusconi's own hair -- from one part of his head to the other -- and that it would be several months before the full results of the operation would be noticeable.
At the beginning of this year Berlusconi underwent facial plastic surgery, which he described as a slight readjustment to his eyelids.
Pictures?
Well, I don't know how much Berlusconi has or plans to have done, but the eyelids, in many cases for men, is a medicall-legitimate surgery, not purely cosmetic or for vanity. Men's eyelids typically get very heavy and can actually impair vision or cause other eye-related problems.
Course, it seems that our Italian ally is a bit more found of cosmetic procedures than just getting it done for medical necessity. But, as long as he doesn't start advocating that "addadiktomies" should be covered under all Italian health plans, I'm ok with it.
I love Berlusconi! He is so pro-American, it oozes from his pores. Not long after 9/11, as we were going into Afghanistan, he was quoted in the media saying somehting like, "I'm for what America is doing even before I know what it is they are doing!" I'd take a million of him, hair transplant, headress, and all!
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