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U.S. Marshals offer $25K rewardA district attorney's office spokeswoman says that an ex-model found dead in a suitcase and missing her fingers and teeth was identified through her breast implants. Jasmine Fiore, 28, was identified using the serial number from her implants because detectives couldn't use fingerprints or dental records, said spokeswoman Farrah Emami on Friday. The U.S. Marshals Service is offering a reward of up to $25,000 for information on Ryan Alexander Jenkins, a reality TV show contestant who was charged Thursday with Fiore's murder and may have fled to his native Canada. Fiore's nude body was found in...

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Does Islam frown on nose jobs? Chemical peels? How about breast implants? One of the clerics with the answers is Sheik Mohammed al-Nujaimi, and Saudi women flock to him for guidance about going under the knife. The results may not see much light of day in a kingdom where women cover up from head to toe, yet cosmetic surgery is booming. Religion covers every facet of life in Saudi Arabia, including plastic surgery. Al-Nujaimi draws his guidelines from the consensus that was reached three years ago when clergymen and plastic surgeons met in Riyadh to determine...

Face-lifts, tummy tucks and hair transplants could be hit with a new tax to help finance the trillion-dollar healthcare overhaul plan, according to sources familiar with the Senate talks. The Senate Finance Committee has discussed imposing a 10 percent excise tax on cosmetic surgery deemed unnecessary for medical purposes. The idea was broached in a meeting with OMB Director Orszag in mid-July, after which Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus told reporters he had heard some "interesting," "creative," and "kind of fun" ideas. The tax, which has not been officially scored, would plug some of the revenue gap senators are seeking...

Michael Jackson rebuilt his nose before his death because extensive plastic surgery had left him with breathing problems, his doctor has disclosed. Arnold Klein, Jackson’s dermatologist, said that he stopped him from going to a plastic surgeon and began rebuilding his nose and cheeks using fillers last year. “I thought he had a nice-looking nose . . . but it got to the point where it was far too thin. It didn’t look natural to me,” Dr Klein told the CNN programme Larry King Live. “I rebuilt it, using fillers. He was beginning to look like the nose was normal...

Here is a forensic artist's drawing of what Michael Jackson would have looked like at age 45 (and presumably today) without all that plastic surgery and skin bleaching: What a difference!

After hinting that someone in her family will have plastic surgery, Kim Kardashian is now revealing that her step-dad, Bruce Jenner (dad to Hills star Brody Jenner), is the one who went under the knife. "Ever since I revealed in recent interviews that one of my family members would be going under the plastic surgeon's knife on the show, I've been inundated with emails and calls asking who it is!!" she blogs. "I can reveal that it was my stepdad Bruce!" "Twenty five years ago, Bruce was ill-advised by a doctor to have a partial facelift and a nose job,"...

How Not To Do Plastic Surgery There’s a part of us, deep down, that enjoys looking at the somewhat negative effects that plastic surgery can wreak on the human visage. Just as some people slow down on the road when they pass a car accident, so do we stop and stare when we observe the car-crash results of plastic surgery gone wrong. Hang Mioku For some reason, this surgery-obsessed Korean woman decided to take it upon herself to INJECT COOKING OIL INTO HER OWN FACE. The story was that after many surgeries, doctors would refuse to operate on her...

Economy Blunts Korea’s Appetite for Plastic Surgery By MARTIN FACKLER SEOUL — A grim frugality has settled over this export powerhouse that once burst with optimism — and silicone. Cosmetic surgery took off here after South Korea’s spectacular recovery from its currency crisis a decade ago. Rising living standards allowed ever-growing numbers of men and women to get the wider eyes, whiter skin and higher nose bridges that define beauty for many here. Improved looks were even seen as providing an edge in this high-pressure society’s intense competition for jobs, education and marriage partners. But turmoil coursing through the financial...

Gay men in Britain are fuelling a surge in demand for plastic surgery, with a quarter admitting to having gone under the knife already. Despite the current economic crisis, the cosmetic surgery industry in Britain is booming, and a rise in demand for procedures such as nose jobs, liposuction and male breast reductions has been attributed to a surge in male requests. A new survey of 1,000 men, conducted by Gay Times, found that 22% of gay men had resorted to plastic surgery, while 69% claimed that they would like to. Regardless of sexual orientation, men were found to be...

Economy Cuts Face Lifts, Other Procedures...The economy isn't the only thing that's sagging...

She has been more than frank about her multiple cosmetic surgeries, but Joan Rivers penchant for going under than knife has left her looking more and more like a caricature. In fact, some unpleasant observers have said she looks much like The Joker, from the Batman comic series. The 73-year-old actress and comedienne is in London for the opening of her new play 'A Work in Progress by a Life in Progress' at the Leicester Square Theatre. joan rivers But it was her strange appearance which garned most the attention, as her wide mouth and surprised eyes reminded onlookers of...

Side Dish: Hillary gets a refresher Has Hillary Clinton added volume and smoothness to her skin? A source tells us Clinton visited a New York plastic surgeon early this month and received injections of a "dermafiller" in her face. The senator had appeared tired and wrinkly on a June 23 New York mag cover, but when she made her first solo campaign stop beside Barack Obama in Nevada on Aug. 8, she looked refreshed. After seeing a recent photo of Hillary, Dr. Tahl Humes of Vitahl Medical told us, "It appears that she has restored a youthful look with a...

46- year old Barack Obama’s presidential campaign has been compared to that of the Kennedy’s. But would the democratic candidate be quite so handsome without a nose job in his past? Make Me Heal looks at the rumors of an Obama rhinoplasty. Early pictures of law student Barack Obama reveal a geeky kid with a big nose and hair to match. The nose in his early pictures is quite wide and very round. Fast forwarding several years to the current presidential campaign, and Obama’s nose looks more refined at the tip, which is likely the result of a conservative rhinoplasty...

Stem Cells Could Replace Plastic Surgery Silicone breast implants and botox could one day be things of the past thanks to promising new techniques that would allow doctors to work plastic surgery miracles using only a patient's own stem cells. Traditionally, plastic and reconstructive surgery has relied heavily on fillers. Bags full of saline or silicone are used to plump up breasts. Chunks of fat are taken from one area of the body and grafted into another. These techniques, which like other body enhancement procedures have soared in popularity in recent years, can work successfully but they also have drawbacks....

Cody Hall was born with a hemangioma, a tumorous birthmark that distorted the shape of her face and grew larger as she got older. When she was 1-year-old, her doctors in England told her parents that nothing could be done about her condition, so her parents took her to see surgeons in the U.S. Fourteen years and 18 reconstructive surgeries later, most of them at St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital in New York, the girl who once had a hopelessly deformed face was flashing a beautiful smile at the prom.

Chelsea Clinton was in town Friday night, and boy did she have a fabulous time! And why not: She hit all the gay bars in Center City, along with Ed Rendell and Rob Reiner. She even went to Tavern on Camac and Sisters! (Her pub crawl also included Woody's and Bump. What, no Uncle's?) When Chelsea was little, Rush Limbaugh called her ugly and everybody got mad at him. But nobody's calling Chelsea unattractive now. "Chelsea, the gays love you," shouted one gay person. "We love your highlights -- you're gorgeous baby!" said another, which prompted bisexual hottie Anne Dicker...

Divorce. Bullies. Foster care. There are books for children on just about every tough subject these days. But mommy's plastic surgery? A Florida plastic surgeon has written about just that in "My Beautiful Mommy," a picture book due out April 28 that tries to calm the fears of kids with parents getting tummy tucks, breast enhancement procedures and nose jobs. Dr. Michael Salzhauer said so many moms brought kids to their appointments that he was motivated to stock up on lollipops in his Bal Harbour, Fla., office. In "My Beautiful Mommy," he explains mommy's recuperation, changing look and desire for...

Model's Eye Surgery To Look Japanese Updated:11:24, Sunday January 27, 2008   A Brazilian model is having nylon wires implanted in her eyes to give them an oriental slant.   Bismarchi prepares for surgery Angela Bismarchi will lead her samba group at next month's Rio Carnival and is having the procedure to celebrate 100 years of Japanese immigration to Brazil.It will be the 42nd time she has had plastic surgery and she is closing in on the world record of 47 held by American Cindy Jackson.Bismarchi will dance ahead of a drum group of 300 people, hoping her sculpted...

Q: Who Is the Real Face of Plastic Surgery? By NATASHA SINGER, The New York Times .img {border:1px solid #c8e4f0;margin:0 4px 0 0;padding:3px;} M. Simmons / M. Mainz, Getty ImagesAshley Simpson's new look is said to be the result of plastic surgery.Other pop stars that did or didn't? IT was the pale green and pink striped bikini that did it. When Sandra Cornier, a mother of two from Brooklyn, looked at a recent photo of herself taken at Manhattan Beach, N.Y., she didn't like what she saw. She had been nursing her son for 11 months, and now she...

Songtao Shi along with other researchers at the University of Southern California have been conducting experiments utilizing stem cells to grow bone and skin. Shi's newest results could literally change the way cosmetic surgery is performed throughout the world. Shi conducts research in the USC's Center for Craniofacial Molecular Biology. Working together with scientists at dental schools in China and Korea, Shi has discovered that mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) have the ability to grow bone and tissue as demonstrated in swine and mouse subjects. Although the studies are still in their early stages, the research published in the Stem Cells'...