Posted on 12/04/2005 6:32:40 AM PST by billorites
Forget diamonds, mink coats and Mercedes.
Many Bay State men - at the urging of their wives and girlfriends - are shelling out big bucks to give their significant others the holiday gift that really keeps on giving: Plastic surgery.
Mary Giuffrida got her Christmas goodies early this year. The 49-year-old Peabody woman underwent a tummy tuck, breast augmentation and liposuction in October - a gift from her husband of 28 years.
Giuffrida said there probably won’t be anything under the tree for her Dec. 25 - but that’s OK. Now, she said, every day is like Christmas.
“Other than my engagement ring, this is the best gift I’ve ever gotten for Christmas,” said Giuffrida, who wouldn’t divulge the cost but said she had thought about cosmetic surgery for a long time.
“I’m going to really enjoy this Christmas,” she said. “I feel wonderful. How could I want more than this?”
Giuffrida had her cosmetic surgery done by Dr. Sheldon Sevinor - whose name graces Christmas lists of women across the region.
Next week, a woman is coming in for a face-lift, neck-lift and arm and stomach liposuction. It’s one of the largest cosmetic-surgery gifts Sevinor’s seen in 28 years.
Last week, Sevinor performed a rhinoplasty (nose job) and breast augmentation on another woman - also a gift from her husband.
“The patients react like you’ve given them a million dollars,” said Sevinor, who has offices in Boston and on the North Shore.
Three college students are booked next week for rhinoplasty, otoplasty (surgery for large protruding ears) and a chin enlargement - all early gifts from their parents, Sevinor said.
Dr. Joseph Russo of Newton said a handful of husbands come in every year looking to buy their wives cosmetic surgery for Christmas. Last year, one man wrapped up a big bra and gave it to his wife on Christmas. When she opened it, she said it would never fit.
The husband told her it would fit next week - he’d gotten her breast implants, Russo recalled.
“It’s kind of a present for themselves too. Women come in ecstatic,” said Russo.
Botox, laser peels and wrinkle fillers such as Restylane and other skin treatments are popular in the weeks before Christmas as people - mostly women - “spruce up” for the holidays, surgeons said.
Many cosmetic surgeons offer gift certificates, which are popular for less invasive procedures such as Botox. A lot of people, including students, choose to have cosmetic surgery done around the holidays because they have time off from work or school. Some women even buy Botox or Restylane injections for their men.
Sheila Manditch of Newton got a rhinoplasty from her husband last year for Christmas.
“I trimmed my nose, instead of trimming the tree,” quipped Manditch, whose husband put Russo’s card in a Christmas card.
A husband buying his wife a make-over.
Isn't this like buying her a new set of golf clubs--shen only you golf?
Barring that, the gift I'd most want to get is a romantic weekend away, so my suggestion would to be look up local bed and breakfasts or a trendy hotel based on what kind of gal she is. ;)
You just gave me a great idea, and, yes, I think she would like that. The trendy hotel, that is. Thanks.
I agree....that would be the perfect gift.
LOL...I'll have to remember that one. ;)
Yay! You are more than welcome. You'll have to report back to us and let us know how it goes. ;-)
I promise I'll report back with all the news that's fit to print. I think she's going to be stunned, but she deserves it.
A five gallon can of gas and a cigarette lighter, not a final solution but certainly a start.
I shudder to think what these people are going to look like when they are really old. They might not care, but the rest of us will. A face with all that surgery simply is not going to age in the usual way; it is going to droop and sag and wrinkle in ways hitherto unknown to man.
Anybody seen---I mean, really seen---Cher lately?
bwwwaaahhaaa
so true, MM
I'm with you. What's up with copping a feel of a big bag of silicon? This is supposed to be sexy?
Not to mention the dirty little secret of breast enlargement: many women lose sensation in their "breasts," including in their nipples.
I guess the visuals are enough for these people. Seems kinda silly to me.
Not to mention other eternal beauties like Sophia Loren. The trick is just a little and just enough.
As we say in the real estate renovation finance business, "That one's a teardown".
It would appear I've already received it.
The other downfall is that when they slice and dice they cut through all your milk ducts. Guess what happens when you give birth and the breasts fill up.....and the milk has no place to go.
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