Rose Kerr

Very suave, erudite kind of guy.

I would like to say no, but I really think that I am.

Sometimes things sneak into my algorithm that I never even asked for and cosmetic surgery content is absolutely one of those things.

I don't know if it's having recently turned 30 or just what's trendy, but I see endless videos about plastic surgeons describing the types of procedures they do and then celebrities and influencers telling me what they get done.

Is this something that you see as well?

Oh my gosh, so much.

And it can make you feel a bit weird because those faces don't necessarily reflect what we see in the mirror.

And I have to admit, the more content like this that I see, the more I've been thinking about how it impacts our mental health, our psychology, how we think about aging, how we see other people, things that I'm excited to say we're going to get into in this episode.

But before we get too deep into it, I do want to say there is nothing

No moral judgment on whether or not people get these procedures.

Full disclosure, I don't have a whole lot of interest in them, but that's mostly because I'm kind of scared of needles.

Yeah, there will be some discussions of mental health and mental illness that are related to body image throughout this episode.

Like so many things that we talk about on the show, Sana, it is hard to pin down because of limited reporting.

But in 2023, the injectables industry was valued at $4.1 billion in Australia.

And if we look globally...

There are some surveys that have shown that nearly one in four people who get Botox were between the ages of 18 and 34.

This is clinical psychologist Gemma Sharp.

She's a professor of psychology at Adelaide University who's done research in the body image space.

How much do you think social media has influenced the popularity of cosmetic procedures?

So at a population level, it seems non-surgical cosmetic procedures are on the rise.