Celebrities and aesthetic Surgery

Do you wish you had the cheeks of Halle Berry or Nicole Kidmans nose? If you only have some part of the body of your favorite celebrity ... then life would be great.

You are not alone. Cosmetic surgeons are taken on by Starstruck customers who need special celebrity features.

The need to look beautiful

Perhaps nowhere else someone's need is felt so strongly in Los Angeles, where even the most beautiful people in the world may feel insecure about their appearance.

"Outside, everyone is beautiful and many people are paid for it," says Leigh Ann Spence, 28, a former cheerleader of Denver Broncos who is now working as a financial analyst at North Hollywood, California. "Especially in a city like Los Angeles, it's about how it looks."

Neal Gabler, a cultural historian and critic of the media who wrote the life of the movie: as entertainment Conquered reality, he agrees. "In Hollywood, everyone has to be young and everyone needs to look good," he says.

Spence had a nose two years ago but was not satisfied with the results. So she is on her third nose in Beverly Hills plastic surgeon Dr. to get Richard Fleming, who spends about 40 percent of her test sessions working on celebrities.

Fiamminghi's motto: "If you want, and you can do it."

This time, Spence's point of reference is Nicole Kidman's nose, which she calls "perfect."

In fact, Nicole Kidman's nose is one of the most requested body parts by his clients, says Fleming, who has gotten so many requests for celebrities' features that he compiles an annual list of the favorites.

This year's most requested eyes belong to Heather Graham. Hottest cheeks: Halle Berry's. The most lusted-after lips: Denise Richards. The most asked-for jawline: Cate Blanchett. And the hottest body: Britney Spears.

Fleming can do some magic with his scalpel, but he admits that a 60-year-old woman can't walk out of his office looking 20 again.

So can Spence get a Nicole Kidman nose? "It's very realistic for her to achieve that," Fleming says.

And it 's not just women lining up for that certain look: Men now make up half of Fleming's patients. They're often looking for Edward Burns' nose, Johnny Depp's jawline and Will Smith's body.

Hollywood’s 11th Commandment: Don’t Tell

But there's a peculiar irony in this game of copying celebrities' features: The firm chin or high cheekbone you love so much on the silver screen may not actually have been heaven-sent.

"There are a lot of people on the hot body list that were not born with the particular characteristic that is now referred to when people come through the door," says Fleming. "Anybody older than a mouseketeer in Hollywood has had some cosmetic surgery."

The same way some women might diet before a big event, the Academy Awards brings celebrities into cosmetic surgeons' offices in droves for some last-minute primping.

Fleming compares the increase in his workload to tax season for an accountant. "People want to come in and have little peels, small laser procedures, contouring, maybe a little liposuction," he says.

According to a survey by the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, a trade group, four out of five American women say they wouldn't be embarrassed if people knew they had plastic surgery. But celebrities who might openly talk about their drug addiction or alcoholism are still reluctant to admit they've gone under the knife, says Fleming.

"It's always been kind of an unwritten 11th commandment: They don't talk about it," says Fleming. "They'll want to schedule surgery in the evenings, they'll want to schedule the entire clinic for the day" just to keep it a secret that they are not physically perfect.

"Hollywood will accept two-faced people, but they won't accept people with two chins," says Fleming.

Who Has, Who Hasn’t

Even if Fleming does not talk about his own patients, he argues that many celebrities have done work without knowing most people.

"Burt Lancaster had his lifting ... Dean Martin had made his nose," says Fleming and John Wayne when he was in the 1960s, had aesthetic surgery before he produced 11 more movies on his neck and Eyelids.

"Without aesthetic gravity surgery always wins," explains Fleming, pointing out that Gary Cooper did a job, as did Marilyn Monroe, who had a chin implant, which changed his claw.

Although Michael Douglas denies, says Fleming, he had an eye lifting and eye surgery. "There is no way to go from point A to 10 years to get to point B without today's aesthetic surgery," says Fleming. "It's very obvious ... they look different, I mean, not because of their herbs or their guru or yoga, they have a physical change."

Gabler says it's part of our culture that Americans resort to plastic surgery. "We live in a dictatorship," he says. "We like to think of us as a democracy, but we live in a dictatorship, it is the dictatorship of the 18-49 demographic cohort that governs everything!"

People who go under the heels want to look in a rule, of course, says Fleming, as if their new properties are their own.

"If someone goes to a person ... and says," I like your nose, who did it? "It's not a compliment," explains Fleming.