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Katie Couric To Undergo (Another) Facelift
Woman's Wear Daily | Greg Lindsay

Posted on 02/17/2004 5:15:25 PM PST by MindBender26

READY FOR HER CLOSE-UP:

Hemlines, rather than hairlines, are usually the fashion world’s focus, but Katie Couric’s current ’do may be worthy of special scrutiny. The new bangs she’s been sporting on the “Today” show lately aren’t just part of a trend — sources said they’re about to double as camouflage.

America’s Pixie is on the verge of going under the knife for a major brow-lift courtesy of Dr. Craig Foster, the plastic surgeon best known for reconstructing the face of the Central Park jogger, according to sources familiar with the situation.

While such a procedure might seem a bit drastic in the age of drive-through Botoxing, Couric and her TV personality peers have a new reason to be afraid about losing their looks — high-definition television. The super-sharp imagery of HDTV is infamously pitiless about its subjects’ looks. “In the last few months, I’ve had three major TV people come in expressing specific high-definition television concerns,” said plastic surgeon Dr. Cap Lesesne.

“HDTV is a nightmare,” said one beauty editor. “I would be surprised if she wasn’t considering surgery.” The “Today” show isn’t currently broadcast in HDTV, but NBC was an early adopter and it will likely happen sooner rather than later.

A spokeswoman for Foster said, “We do not know anything about it,” and a “Today” spokeswoman declined comment.

Last fall, New York magazine named Foster one of “beauty’s best” doctors in the city, and noted that he had started using the Endotine brow-lift treatment that sources said Couric will likely undergo. Endotine patients have small incisions made in the forehead where tiny hooks are inserted that pull the skin of the brow taut. Six to eight weeks after insertion, the skin resettles at the higher elevation, while the hooks — which are biodegradable —gradually melt away six months later. Initially, the change in appearance can be jarring, and during those six weeks the patient’s skin gradually crawls up her face — something “Today” show obsessives might chart if Couric’s new bangs (a common camouflage technique) weren’t in place.

“In her business, and I know her very well,” said Lesesne, “there’s a life span, and there are hundreds of people behind her who want her job. And this is her image she’s protecting.” —


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Phony bitch
1 posted on 02/17/2004 5:15:26 PM PST by MindBender26
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Who knows this stuff?
2 posted on 02/17/2004 5:18:17 PM PST by PeteFromMontana (It's only news if it puts a Conservative in a bad light.)
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To: MindBender26
Which Proctologist will do the surgery?
3 posted on 02/17/2004 5:18:27 PM PST by leprechaun9 (Beware of little expenses because a small leak will sink a great ship!)
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To: MindBender26
The affable Eva Braun must stay 'perky', dontchaknow.
4 posted on 02/17/2004 5:18:38 PM PST by GaltMeister
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To: MindBender26
But they've already got her rectum where her mouth used to be. Her proctologist merely asks her to say "Aaah".
5 posted on 02/17/2004 5:19:49 PM PST by NewRomeTacitus
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To: MindBender26
Another one? Good heavens, are they gonna move a nipple to her nose or something?

Dan
6 posted on 02/17/2004 5:20:15 PM PST by Scannall (I used to be liberal, then I graduated from college and started paying taxes.)
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To: MindBender26
I can think of a surgery she needs, but it doesn`t involve her face. ( Although it would be close to that area).
7 posted on 02/17/2004 5:20:35 PM PST by Bud Krieger ( Who is Bud Krieger?)
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To: MindBender26

Couric during her previous facelift.

8 posted on 02/17/2004 5:22:02 PM PST by Sloth (We cannot defeat foreign enemies of the Constitution if we yield to the domestic ones.)
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Well let's hope that her skin crawls up so far, she sports a Van Dyke.
9 posted on 02/17/2004 5:22:13 PM PST by ladylib
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"Phony bitch"

Ya know......................lol....................I don't know if it was the terseness, the sheer venom, the dead-on accuracy, or all of the above, but your reply (first, right out of the chute) just made me bust up laughing. Maybe I need help..............:)

10 posted on 02/17/2004 5:23:50 PM PST by RightOnline
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To: MindBender26
Live by your looks, die by your looks. And for women, it's a very dumb career decision.
11 posted on 02/17/2004 5:24:11 PM PST by independentmind
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If she gets anymore facelifts she's going to wake up with a beard.
12 posted on 02/17/2004 5:24:27 PM PST by red-dawg
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Katie will be pulled a little more to the left.
13 posted on 02/17/2004 5:24:35 PM PST by arichtaxpayer
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To: ladylib
Well let's hope that her skin crawls up so far, she sports a Van Dyke.

I have the perfect photo for that too, but I can't post it....

14 posted on 02/17/2004 5:26:29 PM PST by freebilly
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To: MindBender26
Maybe if she turned the headband from atop her head to under her chin........


15 posted on 02/17/2004 5:28:20 PM PST by hole_n_one
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To: MindBender26
Maybe this time they'll lift her face clean off!
16 posted on 02/17/2004 5:29:07 PM PST by Old Grumpy
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17 posted on 02/17/2004 5:30:28 PM PST by TADSLOS (Right Wing Infidel since 1954)
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I suggest the doc start lower for a major overhaul.
18 posted on 02/17/2004 5:30:49 PM PST by cynicom
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She won't be able to sit down for a week.
19 posted on 02/17/2004 5:30:56 PM PST by Consort
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To: Old Grumpy
"Katie Couric to undergo (another) facelift"


Awww, that would leave her with one..
20 posted on 02/17/2004 5:30:57 PM PST by Hand em their arse
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