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The Sun
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Sun
Kris Jenner's rumored facelift procedure is ‘risky' & ‘not done often' as surgery costs six figures, top doc claims
KRIS Jenner's rumored deep plane facelift will have been riskier but leave her looking youthful for years to come, a top New York surgeon has revealed. Kris, 69, had fans in a frenzy when she stepped out with a new face this month, looking decades younger. 5 5 5 The reality star's rep confirmed to Page Six she underwent aesthetic enhancements from New York plastic surgeon Dr. Steven Levine ahead of her 70th birthday. Although it has not been revealed exactly what she had done, many critics have suggested she underwent a deep plane facelift as opposed to a regular SMAS procedure. In an exclusive chat with The U.S. Sun, Dr. Norman Rowe, who did not do Kris's work but specializes in deep plane facelifts, explained the difference between the two surgeries. Dr. Rowe said he felt her previous work was "tasteful" and he could immediately tell she'd had a facelift when she stepped out recently - believed to be her second. But he praised Kris for maintaining her looks doing everything from using sun protection to Botox and lasering. He said, "Once you get one of those things done, it's not like you're one and done. It's a maintenance thing. "So she kept her face, you know, up. And she did well. And I think she looks good for her age. I like the result." Asked how much it would cost to have the procedure done, he said, "It depends on whether or not you're getting it in Cincinnati, Ohio, or Miami or New York or LA. I mean, it can range from, five figures to six figures. RISKY PROCEDURE "I do deep planes. I like a deep plane. I switched almost completely over to deep planes. "I just like the results better. It's more reliable. And, in my opinion, I think it lasts a little longer." Explaining the difference between a regular facelift and a deep plane facelift, he said, "Below our skin and below the fat, there's a muscle layer, and it's called the superficial musculoaponeurotic system, or SMAS, we call it for short. "When you do a facelift, you cut out a little sliver of that SMAS and suture the two ends back together to tighten it up. And usually you cut out the sliver somewhere here along the jawline or in here, and you suture together and it pulls it tighter. "So if you think, all right, so that's one way to do it, cut out a section of it. "Another way to do it is make an incision. You get underneath the SMAS, you lift up the muscle and then you pull it. "Imagine if you have a carpet in your house and it has a bubble in it, a wrinkle. There are two ways you could take care of it. You could go along and cut out that wrinkle and then take [that] thread and suture the opening back up. Or you could go to the end of the carpet at the edge of the room and pull the carpet taut. "That's basically the difference between a SMAS and a deep plane. "A SMAS takes out that extra piece by cutting it out directly and suturing together, whereas the deep plane goes to the edge of the muscle, which is right around here in the neck, in the ear. The U.S. Sun asked Dr. Rowe about the advantages of choosing a deep plane procedure over a regular facelift. "In my opinion, I think a deep plane lasts a little bit longer," he said. NERVE DAMAGE "You get a little bit more of a tightening of the muscles when you pull the whole carpet. The dissection is deeper, is further underneath the muscle." He explained not as many people are trained to carry out deep plane facelifts and they can carry risks. "I think, honestly, still, the majority of people out there doing facelifts are probably doing SMAS. It's still kind of like the go-to technique. "It ultimately depends on the surgeon's comfort in doing that deep plane to that point. I'll be honest, it is a little bit more risky than, say, a SMAS. "The nerves that give us our movement in our face to give us our smile, our grimace, and things like that, all of our muscles, the nerves are underneath the muscle. "And so if you're lifting up that muscle to pull that muscle taut, then you can injure those nerves. So there's a little bit [of] risk of that. But again, if you know what you're doing. "In most residency programs, people just aren't doing deep planes because it's a little bit riskier. And so they don't do them. And so residents learn SMAS and they go out and then they do [them] because they weren't trained in deep planes." Dr. Rowe explains there are different varieties of the deep plane facelift from the subtle to the more aggressive, and it depends on the person. "The only way to know [what Kris had done] is to look at her five or 10 years from now," he said. "If she still looks good, it's probably a deep plane … if she starts to show little signs of aging. Probably wasn't. The Kardashian matriarch began her journey with plastic surgery when she got breast implants in the 1980s after giving birth to her first four children: Kourtney, Kim, Khloé, and Rob Kardashian. She has continued her cosmetic upkeep and revealed that she's gotten Botox and fillers over the years. Explaining the deep plane procedure, Dr. Rowe continued, "Most people do it under general anesthesia. It's a little bit too much to do under twilight, a facelift. "And again, when we talk about a facelift, a facelift generally includes a neck lift. So we call it fan face and neck lift. "The incision is placed in the hairline, and by the temple, it goes in front of the ear and then behind the ear. So it kind of looks like a J. "The surgery takes somewhere around two and a half to three hours, generally for a face and a neck lift. "Sometimes I'll put an additional incision in underneath their chin in order to tighten up the muscles of the neck." "Recovery? It depends on if someone gets something else done. "A lot of times people will couple that with eyelid surgery, a brow lift, sometimes we'll laser. "I won't be super aggressive when I laser because you don't want to injure the skin any more than or traumatize the skin, any more than it's already been traumatized by surgery." SURGERY AGE Dr. Rowe explained Kris would have been able to start wearing makeup three or four days after the surgery but may still have had some bruising. "You can walk around. I probably wouldn't plan on any social events for a couple of weeks after the surgery. I wouldn't get it done three weeks before a wedding." He revealed there can be complications including nerve injury but it is "rare". "There are three main complications. There's a nerve injury, the incision opening up, and then also immediate post-operative bleeding, which if there is bleeding, then within the first eight hours, then you go back and you stop it. "That's not a permanently disfiguring complication, whereas a nerve injury, maybe. And an incision opening up behind the ear and a wide scar, maybe." He said he would not do a facelift for anyone in their 20s, but he has seen women in their 30s in need of surgery if they have not maintained their looks. "What's the perfect age? When you need it. I see 30 or I see 35 year olds who need a facelift, and I see 65 year olds who need a facelift," he said. "I see 35 year olds who don't need it, and I see 65 who don't need it. So it depends on your body, your lifestyle, how much sun you got, what you've done to maintain your skin, what have you done in the past? "It's like a car. If you take care of your car, your car will get 100,000 miles on. If you beat the heck out of it, you'll be done after 20,000 miles. "So it's the same thing with your body and your face. "If you take care of yourself, you might push off the need for a facelift. And then when you do need it, you're more likely to say, okay, fine, let's do it. "Whereas if you don't take care of it, you're definitely going to need it. And whether you agree to it or not, you know, that's another thing." He added, "What's the youngest I've done … 37. She never set foot into a plastic surgeon's office. She actually lost some weight. And so she needed a facelift. "And we see that now with the Ozempic phase, people are losing weight, and they come in at a younger age who need facelifts and things like that." 5
Daily Mail
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
EXCLUSIVE Plastic surgery secrets behind the flawless Hollywood facelifts loved by Kris Jenner and Ricki Lake
Hollywood is currently in a new era of 'undetectable' plastic surgery. Celebrities including Kris Jenner and Ricki Lake are turning back the clock with flawless facelifts as more and more women strive to emulate their natural-looking results.
Vogue
4 days ago
- Health
- Vogue
A Deep-Plane Facelift at 40: One Woman's Story
When Melanie booked a consultation appointment with Beverly Hills-based board-certified plastic and reconstructive surgeon Catherine Chang, MD, FACS, she wasn't set on getting a facelift. 'I come from a family of women who have aged very naturally,' she tells me over Zoom one afternoon. And while Melanie, who works in the beauty industry, praises the decision to age intervention-free, that simply wasn't the path for her. That consultation appointment sealed the deal when it came to her future plans. ''Needs' is a subjective term,' Dr. Chang says of her method for creating a custom procedure cocktail for her patients. After their appointment together ('Dr. Chang had me look in the mirror and asked me what I saw,' Melanie recounts, adding that she called out her jaw line and drooping eyelids as areas she wasn't happy with), they settled on a plastic surgery recipe far longer than just a deep plane facelift. It also included a neck lift, a lateral brow lift, an upper blepharoplasty, and fat grafting. The latter is especially new and exciting. 'I began by creating a small incision inside the belly button so that it is not visible, then harvesting the fat [from the abdomen] to inject back into her face,' Dr. Chang says. 'The patient specifically disliked the hollowness in her under-eye area, so we added the fat in the under-eyes, as well as the cheeks and temples.' Dr. Chang's wait list is currently 9 months to a year, so the wait was on. Between that first appointment and the morning of surgery, there were a few appointments to confirm the details, but that was it. 'The morning of, I showed up to the surgical center and Dr. Chang took out her surgical pen and drew all these lines on my face that were for the procedure,' she says. That famous Sex and the City scene where Samantha dips a toe into plastic surgery—and then sobs after looking in the mirror—comes to mind. But there was no running away for Melanie. 'I didn't have a mirror, but I felt comfortable because of Dr. Chang's manner.' Then, she went under anesthesia and woke up—easy. Melanie was able to go home the same day because she had hired an in-home healthcare worker to stay with her (typically, you need to stay in a hospital overnight). For the first 48 hours, her head was fully bandaged, a bit like a mummy, to control swelling. After that, she wore a head strap—think Jacob Marley from A Christmas Carol—for a week straight. For the final week, the head strap was on for 12 hours a day.
Vogue
4 days ago
- Health
- Vogue
When Is the 'Right' Time to Get a Facelift?
We're seeing a shift in the way we look at facelifts. What once was a surgery you would get as a last resort to recapture your 'youthful look' has now turned into one of the most popular treatments to fine-tune your facial features. The American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery reports that facelifts continue to be one of the top procedures, with a rise in younger patients seeking this treatment. While people are holding off on filler and Botox, it seems like many are waiting to go all in on facelifts. But how young is too young? How do you know when it's the right—and wrong—time to get a facelift? There are a couple of things to consider before you go under the knife. Is there a 'right' age to get a facelift? When it comes to getting a facelift, your age doesn't really matter. The real dealbreaker, experts say, is your overall health and your facial structure. 'The physical state of the face is more important than the biological age when assessing if someone is a suitable candidate for a facelift,' says Yannis Alexandrides, MD, FACS, board-certified plastic surgeon and founder of 111 Harley St. 'Many factors affect how a face looks and how it ages. These include lifestyle choices, genetics, and in some cases conditions or diseases.' 'I've operated on patients in their 70s who were better surgical candidates than some in their 50s. As long as someone is healthy, has realistic expectations, and can safely undergo anesthesia, they can be a good candidate,' agrees Alexis Parcells, MD, board-certified plastic surgeon and founder of Parcells Plastic Surgery. 'A facelift at any age can be transformative when it's done for the right reasons.' Dr. Parcells goes on to say that most of her patients who opt for this treatment are in their late 40s to early 60s. This is about the age where skin laxity, jowling, and deeper folds are more pronounced. Facelifts, she explains, are about addressing structural changes and not just surface-level tweaks. So, the best time to get one is when those major face changes begin to bother you. …but you can be considered too young for one While there is no ideal age to get a facelift, experts do think that there are instances where one can be too young to undergo this surgery. Mainly, if you aren't showing any signs of aging on your face. 'Anyone under 40 is usually too young,' says Dr. Parcells. 'At that point, most concerns can be addressed with non-invasive treatments like radiofrequency, microneedling, or filler. A facelift is surgery—and with that comes downtime, risks, and cost—so we want to make sure we're correcting actual descent of tissue, not just volume loss or skin quality.' What makes you a good candidate for a facelift? There are a couple of things your doctor will look for to determine if a facelift is the right treatment for you. Dr. Alexandrides lists deep nasolabial folds (a.k.a. smile lines), jowling, laxity of the skin on the face or the neck, drooping of the brows, or extensive wrinkling of the face as some of the skin concerns that a facelift is the ideal treatment for. As mentioned before, you'll want to be healthy overall to minimize complications during and post-surgery. On a psychological level, he says patients should have realistic expectations for the results.
Vogue
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Vogue
Because of The Longevity Movement, Sometimes One Face Lift Isn't Enough
Earlier this month, 27-year-old Kylie Jenner answered the plea of a TikToker and shared her exact details of her breast augmentation, down to the plastic surgeon. When Beverly Hills-based board-certified plastic surgeon Garth Fisher took to his Instagram to express his gratitude and further confirm it was indeed him who did the job, there was another familiar face in the comments: Jenner's mother, Kris. 'Garth you are such a superstar class act!!' Kris gushed. 'You did my first facelift in 2011…14 years ago!!!' I'm not a Kardashian family historian, so the inclusion of first caught me off guard. It was recently confirmed that Kris had a facelift at 69 years old—look at those cheeks!—but a quick search revealed that, yes, she also had a facelift with Dr. Fisher that was filmed for Keeping Up With the Kardashians 14 years ago, when she was 55. In the weeks since Kris chose cosmetic surgery transparency a la Marc Jacobs, facelift-related chatter has reached a fever pitch. And it's not just lip service: Every single doctor I spoke to for this story cited a 50% spike in interest in the surgery. Beverly Hills-based facial plastic surgeon Babak Azizzadeh, MD, FACS declared that the surgery is 'one of the most essential tools for facial rejuvenation' and more powerful than any other treatment—lasers, injectables, microneedling, radiofrequency, and more—in the anti-aging world. 'A facelift, in essence, involves the repositioning of soft tissue and modification of deeper fat compartments and glands,' he says. In more direct terms: The skin of the face is lifted up, the face and muscles underneath repositioned and sculpted into a desired effect, and then the skin is tightened and cut to sit taut across the face. 'For most people, a facelift is a once-in-a-lifetime procedure,' says double board-certified plastic surgeon David Shafer, MD, FACS. 'But as people are now living longer and staying socially active for longer, they are also returning for tweaks or additional surgery.' It's just one of the many unexpected spinoffs of the longevity movement.
