Gia Tolentino

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Fresh Air · Jia Tolentino on ‘Our Plastic Surgery Nightmare’ · 22 Jul 2026 podcast

So this began as kind of niche behavior among the professionally beautiful, the wealthy and famous.

But the desire trickles down because those faces are necessarily visually overrepresented.

And what those women do trickles down into the desire for the general population.

And in the nearly, let's say, decade that has elapsed, when I was starting to research this piece, I started just Googling cities in the United States.

I started Googling midsize cities everywhere outside the coasts to check, you know.

How widespread is this behavior actually?

There are some proxies, like the Reddit for r slash plastic surgery, it has almost as many weekly visitors as the Reddit forum for r slash running.

So there are some proxies where you can tell this is becoming a quite generalized interest.

If you are on social media, you see the way that people's faces interact.

have become uncanny.

The foreheads are freezing.

The lips are plump.

Instagram face has kind of trickled down to the general population.

You can get it at your local strip mall, basically anywhere you are in the U.S., and people certainly do.

And now the faces of the

The rich and famous and professionally beautiful, now it's changing.

Now there's facelifts.

Now there's these invisible facelifts.

There are the flickers of desire in the general population, people being like, well, should I get a facelift at age 30?

This seems to be the next wave of what's happening, that the facelifts are becoming the kind of soon-to-be normalized desire.

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