Speaker 1: I'm Honey German. My parents are Dominican. I was born
Speaker 1: and raised in New York City. I love sneakers and
Speaker 1: I'm a body positive advocate. I'm Carolina Bermudez, but i
Speaker 1: was born and raised in Ohio. I'm a wife, a mama,
Speaker 1: and a worker being. This is life English. So UM.
Speaker 1: We've been talking about bringing in a doctor friend of
Speaker 1: mine and he is going to be joining us very soon.
Speaker 1: But I really wanted to dive into this um topic
Speaker 1: because I think it affects a lot of us. We
Speaker 1: all have mothers, sisters, cousins, friends who want to tweak
Speaker 1: or do something with their parents. They don't exactly know
Speaker 1: how to go about doing it. And you know, I
Speaker 1: think that obviously a board certified plastic surgeon is the
Speaker 1: way to go, and especially because we live in New
Speaker 1: York in the Tri state area, there are many to
Speaker 1: go around. Here's the thing. I feel like people are
Speaker 1: so quick to just go with somebody because they don't
Speaker 1: want to do the research. They don't, especially especially now
Speaker 1: with Instagram, it's like people dm each other doctors like,
Speaker 1: oh his work is fire, look at that waist, and
Speaker 1: then that's it. That's how you're going to pick your
Speaker 1: doctor and let's not let's not get started on you know,
Speaker 1: the fact that Latina's love traveling for surgeries. That's something
Speaker 1: that we definitely have to talk to him about. UM. Okay,
Speaker 1: So I wanted to bring in Doctor to Tell. I
Speaker 1: met Doctor to Tell a years ago and it was
Speaker 1: through um a mutual friend, and I just formed a
Speaker 1: connection with him. He reminds me a lot of my brothers,
Speaker 1: and I trust my brothers, and he is a board
Speaker 1: certified plastic surgeon. UM. I like to call him the
Speaker 1: doctor to the stars and me, but he only does
Speaker 1: my botox. But Doctor to Tell, I, thank you for
Speaker 1: joining us, Thank you so much for having me. Well,
Speaker 1: we were talking about honey, and I wanted to ask
Speaker 1: you a couple of questions just about like what's going
Speaker 1: on in plastic surgery right now, because I feel like
Speaker 1: we've seen so many different shifts, Like for a while
Speaker 1: it was all about boob jobs, you know, and then
Speaker 1: then it kind of goes in waves, right Like, what
Speaker 1: would you say, is like the biggest request that you
Speaker 1: get right now? Absolutely right now? Um, you know, the
Speaker 1: biggest thing that's kind of been an uptick in the
Speaker 1: last five years, is things like Brazilian butt lift or
Speaker 1: adding volume and shaped her hips or were end Uh
Speaker 1: that that's as far as like surgical procedures in general,
Speaker 1: non surgical procedures or the thing that's kind of like
Speaker 1: the fastest growing part of the market, and that includes
Speaker 1: UM things like botox filler injectables, and then non surgical
Speaker 1: fat reduction like cool sculpting, And there's even a new
Speaker 1: UM device on the market called m sculpt which is
Speaker 1: a non surgical way to actually help build muscle. Oh wow,
Speaker 1: so then nuts for the really lazy people then you
Speaker 1: just sit back. Is that it's almost like a tens unit, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: pretty much. It's kind of it feels like electrical stimulation
Speaker 1: and it just kind of activates the muscle that it's
Speaker 1: over UM and it's supposed to increase growth of the
Speaker 1: muscle that it's being used. But don't you think that
Speaker 1: this whole trend, Like a lot of the plastic surgeons
Speaker 1: that I've read about, they say that they can lend
Speaker 1: this whole thing to the Kardashians because previously, like j Lo,
Speaker 1: the Kardashians, I think that they started highlighting like their
Speaker 1: natural you know natural No. J Loo was natural yea, yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 1: and she and the popularity I think began with her
Speaker 1: and that was you know, good five or ten years
Speaker 1: before the Kardashians even for sure, when she did Selina,
Speaker 1: I think that's when everybody started seeing. That's when everybody
Speaker 1: was like, oh, it's okay to be thick and have
Speaker 1: an ass right because of her. No, and she did
Speaker 1: change I think the cultural shift of what people were
Speaker 1: looking for where you can actual question, were you taken
Speaker 1: aback when that started happening, because before it was just
Speaker 1: everybody wanted to be very tiny. Everybody wanted to be
Speaker 1: very slim and just booby and that was it. And
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, people want but I remember
Speaker 1: before was just StairMaster and ellipticals and and everybody was like, no,
Speaker 1: my butt can't be big. Were you shocked in a
Speaker 1: way like what's happening? I mean I wasn't shocked. I
Speaker 1: was still kind of young when j Lo really hit
Speaker 1: the scene, so like that was kind of the error
Speaker 1: that I was growing up in Okay, So you grew
Speaker 1: up in normal for me. But I know, you know,
Speaker 1: looking back at you know, the trends of you know,
Speaker 1: popular women models and yeah, and it went from super
Speaker 1: super skinny, you know that waif look kind of in
Speaker 1: nearly nineties Kate Moss and totally like that, and then
Speaker 1: now you know, finally, you know, women with a lot
Speaker 1: of curves are are in Yeah, pour glass the whole,
Speaker 1: but like the just say the honey, because you know,
Speaker 1: I've got a pancake booty. I've actually talked to doctor
Speaker 1: to tell us, Yeah, I wanted to get my boobs
Speaker 1: redone because I had breast implants a long, long time
Speaker 1: ago after having two children, breast fed two children. You know,
Speaker 1: things aren't exactly sitting the way that they were before.
Speaker 1: But I think that a lot of people take plastic
Speaker 1: surgery very lightly. I mean, it is a major surgery. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it should not be taken lightly. You know, any of
Speaker 1: these surgeries, you know, I think are major surgery UM,
Speaker 1: and they should be taken seriously, you know, both by
Speaker 1: the patient and obviously by the surgeon. UM. And you know,
Speaker 1: I think that you need to do your due diligence
Speaker 1: when you're trying to figure out who you want to trust,
Speaker 1: you know, your body with and your care with UM
Speaker 1: and things like looking for somebody who's board certified by
Speaker 1: the American Board of Plastic Surgery is really the start
Speaker 1: of it UM. So from there then you want to
Speaker 1: look at the UM doctors, you know, reviews and before
Speaker 1: and after photos not some people. People will go on
Speaker 1: Instagram and my home girl went to this doctor. I'm
Speaker 1: going to go to him and he is in Higalia
Speaker 1: and he practices out of his garage, like just like entering.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's true. People are getting injected with like
Speaker 1: cement in like w D forty it's bananas. Like these
Speaker 1: stories are out of control. Yeah, there are a lot
Speaker 1: of crazy things going on out there, which is why
Speaker 1: you know you have to do that yourself. You have
Speaker 1: to do your due diligence and do your own research
Speaker 1: for the procedure that you think that you want UM
Speaker 1: and then for the for the right surgeon. Now, let
Speaker 1: me ask you a question. I feel like a lot
Speaker 1: of that stuff is being done because people equate plastic surgery.
Speaker 1: Would it be very expensive? It's like I'm gonna cut corners.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna try to do it cheaper. I only have
Speaker 1: five hundred dollars, and I want to ask I don't
Speaker 1: have ten thousand. Are there alternate ways that people can
Speaker 1: pay for plastic surgery if they don't have let's say,
Speaker 1: ten thousand dollars in the bank to give to a doctor. Yeah. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: there are a lot of financing options, either directly with
Speaker 1: the surgeon's office, although more commonly are with a third
Speaker 1: party kind of creditors, things like care Credit, Alphaeon Credit,
Speaker 1: United Medical Credit. There are a lot of players in
Speaker 1: that mark it that allow for financing and financing options,
Speaker 1: and even some plastic surgeon's offices. The way that the
Speaker 1: plans are set up, you know that they take and
Speaker 1: you know, pay for part of your interests what you
Speaker 1: pay for part of your interests, and a lot of
Speaker 1: options to make it affordable where you don't have to
Speaker 1: cut corners with choosing you know, maybe a less reputable
Speaker 1: provider going out of the country, which you know is
Speaker 1: also another big trend. Yeah, we wanted to talk about
Speaker 1: that because there are so many people who will be like, oh,
Speaker 1: I went and I got a full body makeover in
Speaker 1: Colombia for five thousand dollars, and it's like, I don't
Speaker 1: know if that's really the best idea, you know, what
Speaker 1: would you say? So there are a lot of people
Speaker 1: who think that because they can go to their home country,
Speaker 1: they can get things for cheaper. Have you seen anything
Speaker 1: like that yourself in your practice? Yeah, I mean I have,
Speaker 1: and I've seen a lot of people, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm covering the emergency rooms, uh, that come into the er.
Speaker 1: You know, they had surgery, you know, to the country,
Speaker 1: so now they're recovering, you know, back thousands of miles
Speaker 1: away from the surgeon that operated on and they have
Speaker 1: nobody to take care of them. You know, when one
Speaker 1: little problem comes up, you know, there are a lot
Speaker 1: of things. You know, as a trained surgeon, you know
Speaker 1: what to do to keep a small problem from becoming
Speaker 1: a tragedy. Um. And if you come back to your
Speaker 1: home city and you're miles and miles and miles away
Speaker 1: from your surgeon, you know, there's no one who's going
Speaker 1: to take care of you. You know, no one is
Speaker 1: invested in you as a patient, in your outcomes, in
Speaker 1: your you know, in your hometown and uh. You know,
Speaker 1: oftentimes we see problems that you become disasters, and they
Speaker 1: could have been easily avoided if they were being taken
Speaker 1: care of by a surgeon you know nearby. Well, how
Speaker 1: hard is that for you too? It's almost like you
Speaker 1: have to be a detective, like finding out what did
Speaker 1: they do or you know what exactly it is that
Speaker 1: you're correcting, or you have to help them with. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know a lot of times it's uh, you own
Speaker 1: infection or something like that. And once they've gotten you know,
Speaker 1: past a certain point, it's not even like aesthetics that
Speaker 1: you're trying to um salvage. But you know the patient's health,
Speaker 1: you know, so you treat it like any other you know,
Speaker 1: big you know, infection or something like that, and try
Speaker 1: and get them well before you can even start talking
Speaker 1: about you know, how do you now make this look pretty?
Speaker 1: And you know that's one of the things is that
Speaker 1: you know, when you try to save money by you know,
Speaker 1: cutting corners and now you're back home and you could
Speaker 1: be in the hospital with a huge hospital bill. You know,
Speaker 1: most insurances don't cover don't cover that part of your recovery.
Speaker 1: All for the booty, that's all for the booty. I mean,
Speaker 1: it is so nutty, um doctor to Tella, Um, I
Speaker 1: wanted to know what you think are the most important
Speaker 1: or I'm sorry, I would like to know what you
Speaker 1: think is the most important thing for a woman to
Speaker 1: do before she goes to meet with a plastic surgeon.
Speaker 1: Let's say her friend told her this guy is really great, Like,
Speaker 1: what do I think is the most important thing for her?
Speaker 1: I would say, you know, first of all, yeah, first
Speaker 1: of all, note know what your goals are, UM, because
Speaker 1: I think that is how you know you you end
Speaker 1: up being happy. And that's one of my first things
Speaker 1: I do when I meet a patient is to try
Speaker 1: and tease out what their goals are. Some people, you know,
Speaker 1: know it and say it and articulate it very well.
Speaker 1: Other people, you know, you kind of get it through
Speaker 1: the conversation. You know what they're really looking for. UM.
Speaker 1: So start off by knowing what you want UM, and
Speaker 1: that's gonna you know, help everything. And then you know,
Speaker 1: you have to do your research and look for somebody.
Speaker 1: They could be recommended by a friend and that they're
Speaker 1: very happy with. But you know, go onto their website,
Speaker 1: see that um they're you know, board certified again by
Speaker 1: the American Board of Plastic Surgery. I see if they're
Speaker 1: associated with any national societies like the a s PS
Speaker 1: or the a S a p s UM. And then
Speaker 1: you could look through their own either social media or
Speaker 1: their real self profile or their website for before and
Speaker 1: after pictures see if you like their results. Do they
Speaker 1: consistently provide something that you are you know, amazed by
Speaker 1: or you're just like not so hot on it? And
Speaker 1: you know, find somebody that kind of you know, checks
Speaker 1: all the boxes. Yeah, now, who let me ask you
Speaker 1: a two part question when it comes to celebrity. What's
Speaker 1: the number one booty that people show you? And what's
Speaker 1: the number one face that people show you when they're like,
Speaker 1: this is what I want? You know. It's actually amazing
Speaker 1: is that most of the time now you're hardly really
Speaker 1: seeing a lot of celebrity which picks and a lot
Speaker 1: of them they're like Instagram models. That's not to be honest,
Speaker 1: I don't even know here we go, I'm over here
Speaker 1: trying to find out who I need to look like,
Speaker 1: and you're like, I don't know the name, but she
Speaker 1: had seventy million followers. Really, so they're they're more about
Speaker 1: the Instagram. That's why people are influencers. That's why people
Speaker 1: look the same. Yeah, it's true. No, it's so crazy.
Speaker 1: And now, you know, even back in the day where
Speaker 1: you would have to go to a doctor's office, do
Speaker 1: you think that it's changing because so many plastic surgeons
Speaker 1: are on social media. Now you can go on Instagram
Speaker 1: and check them out. You actually, I refuse to watch
Speaker 1: dr to tell us stories while I'm eating because you
Speaker 1: do procedures. No, but it's so good And then after
Speaker 1: he'll get these after photos and I'm like, damn, that
Speaker 1: is great work. That's what she was doing for. Yes,
Speaker 1: but like, do you think that that has changed the
Speaker 1: game for plastic surgeons and just for the medical field
Speaker 1: in general. I mean I think a little bit. Uh.
Speaker 1: You know, you're able to reach a bigger market and
Speaker 1: people are seeing your work um first, which is great. Um.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, you know, as a patient,
Speaker 1: you still have to beware and always kind of again
Speaker 1: like I said, kind of do your due diligence and
Speaker 1: research people because you know how people take pictures and
Speaker 1: selfies and there's filters and things like that. There are
Speaker 1: easy ways. You know, you don't have to by results.
Speaker 1: How let me ask you a a question, how does that work?
Speaker 1: When you when we see a doctor doing surgery on Snapchat,
Speaker 1: do you tell your patient like, Okay, we're gonna go
Speaker 1: on social media. How does that work? I've always wondered that. Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 1: You have to get express consent for hand um really
Speaker 1: for all pictures or videos. That's why you're not seeing
Speaker 1: my boobies. I'm not giving you my consent. My boobies done,
Speaker 1: but go ahead. No, he'll put little hearts over the
Speaker 1: so they're like, they're just like, oh, I'm down to
Speaker 1: be on social media. Put me on chef that be
Speaker 1: on Instagram specifically, or just my website, my you know,
Speaker 1: in office photo book or you know. So we make
Speaker 1: sure that they're they're okay with him. But you know,
Speaker 1: what is the tell when people have tattoos, because you're like, damn,
Speaker 1: we're all with the dragon tattoos. She gotta that would
Speaker 1: amend me. Yeah, no, but it's so true because people
Speaker 1: think that they're anonymous and then another person from their
Speaker 1: family could be looking at your absolutely so, and that's
Speaker 1: another thing that sometimes can be challenging. But you know,
Speaker 1: we always also make sure they know, well, you know,
Speaker 1: your tattoos in this and some people ask for the
Speaker 1: tattoo to be blurred out. Um in another way. Most
Speaker 1: people though, now and this is something that's kind of
Speaker 1: called me off Carse, they don't really don't care. They're
Speaker 1: just like whatever, just show it. And that brings me
Speaker 1: to this. Before people were so a secretive about surgeries
Speaker 1: that they would never tell you they got anything done,
Speaker 1: not the phase, not the boobs. What do you think
Speaker 1: has changed in our in our culture that everybody's like, oh,
Speaker 1: I just got my tip's done yesterday, and I got
Speaker 1: some libo and I got some butt shots and these
Speaker 1: are fillers, Like what do you think it's changed culturally
Speaker 1: that people are now so open about plastic surgery. I
Speaker 1: think social media has changed the game, you know, on
Speaker 1: a lot of levels, in a lot of different fields. Um.
Speaker 1: And I think that you know, people are now always
Speaker 1: used to looking at themselves, you know, a thousand times
Speaker 1: a day. You know, you used to take a picture,
Speaker 1: or somebody would take once a month or something, but
Speaker 1: you would take a picture, and you know, you never
Speaker 1: even knew whether you'd be there when that film got developed,
Speaker 1: or if you ever saw that he has a shoe
Speaker 1: box fill of like thirty five millimeter film that still
Speaker 1: needs to get developed, that that's probably like my holy communion.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, but it's true. We have all of these
Speaker 1: photos here and the selfies. I think that we are
Speaker 1: examining ourselves so much more in depth than we ever have. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and immediately, and if you don't like something, you know,
Speaker 1: you turn your head a little bit chinned down a
Speaker 1: little bit right, or you find a filter exactly. So
Speaker 1: you know, I think people are are just kind of
Speaker 1: like looking at themselves so much more now, um, and
Speaker 1: looking at everybody else so much more now, right, because
Speaker 1: it's just flooded with that kind of content. So I
Speaker 1: think that when people make a change for themselves, they
Speaker 1: want to flaunt it. They do want to. They kind
Speaker 1: of want to show off and show what they've done.
Speaker 1: You want to. You know, it's like I went through
Speaker 1: all of this just to get it done. Now I
Speaker 1: want to show everybody that I did it. So now,
Speaker 1: what do you say about the younger generation, meaning the
Speaker 1: young ladies who are coming in for their sweet sixteen there,
Speaker 1: you know, before high school graduation. Do you have any
Speaker 1: reservations about doing any type of surgery on on young
Speaker 1: women like that? Yeah? I mean, you know, I don't
Speaker 1: see too many people that are that young, um. But
Speaker 1: kind of where it's a little bit more common is
Speaker 1: when you see people, you know, again sweet sixteen something
Speaker 1: like that, maybe before they get their driver's license, uh,
Speaker 1: for rhino plasty or nose job. You know, usually not
Speaker 1: seeing people for breast augmentation or other bodywork that young. Um,
Speaker 1: but something you know on the face after fifteen sixteen
Speaker 1: years old, you know, for the most part, the cartilage
Speaker 1: in their nose is fully developed and grown and is
Speaker 1: you know, a static um part of their body. You know.
Speaker 1: I think it's fine, you know, as long as you
Speaker 1: find the right provider, uh, you know, to go ahead
Speaker 1: with that. But I think most surgeons either aren't seeing
Speaker 1: it or wouldn't see, you know, something really below eighteen
Speaker 1: for like breasts or bodywork or anything like. Speaking of noses,
Speaker 1: I'm shocked by the way that people are doing noses
Speaker 1: now with fillers. How the hell does that work? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's actually amazing, and I see a lot of sure,
Speaker 1: and it's it's amazing because it's it's immediate results. How
Speaker 1: long is the maintenance? So like, how long do they result?
Speaker 1: By the way, six months, like eight months and then
Speaker 1: you go back to your old nose. Yeah, yeah, but
Speaker 1: then you just come back in and get the new
Speaker 1: nose again. I saw a nose and I was like, no,
Speaker 1: using a pro tractor. I haven't seen a pro tractor
Speaker 1: since I was like a high school, Like seriously, something
Speaker 1: had like some kind of device or something like that.
Speaker 1: This is why I'm not a doctor, right, It's so true.
Speaker 1: Fillers have changed the game for plastic surgeons. Yeah, absolutely
Speaker 1: and injectable. So now there are a lot of people
Speaker 1: who are listening to our podcasts that might not be
Speaker 1: able to afford it. I know we touched on it before,
Speaker 1: but like, what would do say? Are the key things
Speaker 1: right now for women to start doing to take care
Speaker 1: of themselves if they don't want to go to a
Speaker 1: plastic surgeon. Uh, stay out of the sun or use
Speaker 1: sun block daily and reapply right because your morning makeup,
Speaker 1: tinted makeup that has m SPF in it is not
Speaker 1: really doing its job by noon anymore. I put it
Speaker 1: on right before I get in my car on my
Speaker 1: left side because that's where my sun spots are. I
Speaker 1: will put on my SPF right before I get in
Speaker 1: the car because I know I have to drive to
Speaker 1: Long Island. It's gonna be an hour an hour and
Speaker 1: a half and I'm gonna get that. Yeah, it's just
Speaker 1: like I don't even care because I care more about
Speaker 1: my skin. I don't have this type of money to
Speaker 1: be buying all of these go back. It's true, It's true.
Speaker 1: So the sun block and then what else for people
Speaker 1: who are just looking for over the counter or you know,
Speaker 1: something that they can get at their drug store. Sure,
Speaker 1: so some block is first because that prevents damage from happening. UM.
Speaker 1: And then you know, I would say any product that
Speaker 1: you could find that's got written all in it, right,
Speaker 1: and I'll as product I think is wonderful for just
Speaker 1: skin and keeping like a kind of young, kind of
Speaker 1: fresh look to your skin. UM. And then the key
Speaker 1: with that is also just to make sure that you're
Speaker 1: using it correctly. You know, most retinal products are very
Speaker 1: often abandoned, either because people using they don't see a
Speaker 1: good results or um because they use it and it
Speaker 1: literally like burns their face and they throw it away
Speaker 1: and they're like, I'm never gonna So you know it
Speaker 1: should you're that tolerance though, right, yeah, you should. You
Speaker 1: should use it until it irritates you and then use
Speaker 1: it a little less. It's kind of you know, the
Speaker 1: way you kind of find your dose. What would you
Speaker 1: say to a young lady, you know, do you deal
Speaker 1: with the psychological aspect like there are a lot of
Speaker 1: people who look at themselves and they really legitimately don't
Speaker 1: see what's in front of them. You know. Do you
Speaker 1: ever have people who come through that you're like, I'm
Speaker 1: not going to take this patient. Yeah. Absolutely. Um, it's
Speaker 1: not that often, but it's it's often enough that you
Speaker 1: need to kind of recognize the signs of somebody who's
Speaker 1: you know, just mentally you know, unwell. Um, and it's
Speaker 1: you know, to some degree, you know, you're you're coaching
Speaker 1: them through you know, their office appointment with you, through
Speaker 1: their consul and you you start to realize that, you know,
Speaker 1: they are you know, hyper focused on the smallest details,
Speaker 1: even on their own face. Or let's say a lot
Speaker 1: of times they have come from another provider who they
Speaker 1: can't stand the work that was done, and I'm looking
Speaker 1: at it and I'm like, actually, I think that was
Speaker 1: pretty good job. I would I would call that a
Speaker 1: you know, a good job and a great result. And
Speaker 1: they're like obsessed about you know, some other provider they
Speaker 1: did some horrible job to them, and you hear this
Speaker 1: term botched now it's all over the interesting. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: But so when when somebody who's coming in doesn't really
Speaker 1: have anything wrong with them, and they're like obsessed about,
Speaker 1: let's say, bashing their old provider, and you're looking at
Speaker 1: them and they're okay. You know, you've got to just
Speaker 1: kind of guide them through that appointment and kind of
Speaker 1: reassure them that everything looks fine, and you know, then
Speaker 1: you don't necessarily want to be doing anything else to them.
Speaker 1: That's like a red flag girl for you, because they're
Speaker 1: going to go to another provider and talk about you
Speaker 1: and say that you didn't do a great job about
Speaker 1: So he's talking about me everybody. I like to go
Speaker 1: to him for botox and he keeps telling me, no, no,
Speaker 1: I'm just kidding. No. Doctor to Tella, you have been
Speaker 1: so incredible And a lot of people say, I'm forty one.
Speaker 1: I'm very open about my age. I tell everybody, and
Speaker 1: I truly believe that he has changed my skincare routine,
Speaker 1: the way that I take care of myself, and like,
Speaker 1: I really am so satisfied. You know. Um, I think
Speaker 1: that as you get older, I've started bo talks like
Speaker 1: in the past as a preventative measure, but as I've
Speaker 1: gotten older, I've definitely recognized like the benefits of it,
Speaker 1: you know. So I wanted to ask you about a
Speaker 1: couple of people that you have treated that are celebrities
Speaker 1: that you're allowed to talk about. If you are allowed
Speaker 1: to talk about. Yeah, they're very open and honest about stuff.
Speaker 1: A lot of them. They're on my social media on
Speaker 1: their social media talking about it. Absolutely. So Now when
Speaker 1: somebody is a semi celebrity or like a reality star
Speaker 1: or somebody like that, is that more enticing for you
Speaker 1: to take care of them, because then you know you're
Speaker 1: going to get like basically free advertising. Sure. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm excited to go to work every day. So I mean,
Speaker 1: I really love taking care of all my patients and
Speaker 1: I really feel actually blessed for my specific patient population. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, everybody's awesome, and everyone in my practice is
Speaker 1: kind of like family, you know, patients and staff and
Speaker 1: everyone's got a great relationship in that way. Um, so
Speaker 1: it's hard to beat that, you know. Um, but I
Speaker 1: would just say that, you know, it's it's great to
Speaker 1: you know, let's say, meet somebody that maybe you've seen
Speaker 1: on TV for a certain amount of time and um,
Speaker 1: what's been really um really about the cast or many
Speaker 1: members of the cast from the Jersey Shore that I
Speaker 1: take care of is uh you know there, did you
Speaker 1: do Ronnie's light bulb? Okay, I just saw that in
Speaker 1: the news last week. Can I say it? Can I say?
Speaker 1: Angelina looks banging? She does look great. Seriously, You've done
Speaker 1: an incredible job with her. There are a couple of
Speaker 1: other people that I know that you've treated, and people
Speaker 1: can go to your instagram. Do you want to shout
Speaker 1: it out? Yeah? Sure. The instagram is just my name
Speaker 1: to tell a PS, which stands for plastic surgery. It's
Speaker 1: t U t e l A p S. And will
Speaker 1: be sure to repost that so that people can find it.
Speaker 1: Like on our social course. It's great. You see a
Speaker 1: lot of great, great things on their results and stories.
Speaker 1: I think are always fun to do. Um. But yeah,
Speaker 1: everyone's been so awesome, and I think that that was
Speaker 1: a nice and kind of um, you know, reinforce ment
Speaker 1: of all these people that I've taken care of that
Speaker 1: they're all very normal people, you know exactly what you
Speaker 1: kind of get past, um get past and you're like, oh, hey,
Speaker 1: how are you? Everyone is just super normal, super great,
Speaker 1: very kind to me and all my staff and just
Speaker 1: been wonderful to work with. Now I want to actually
Speaker 1: question about lightbul suction. I had light boat like on
Speaker 1: my legs like twelve years ago. It was the most
Speaker 1: painful experience I've ever gone through in my entire life.
Speaker 1: How has light boat changed within the past decade so
Speaker 1: that I can possibly want to go do it again? Um,
Speaker 1: I would say there there's been a lot of like
Speaker 1: little adjuncts to liposuction UM that I don't always use,
Speaker 1: but are available, things like vaser, which is an ultrasound
Speaker 1: um and uh smart light boat which is a laser
Speaker 1: and that helps kind of break up the fat and
Speaker 1: maybe do a little skin tightening UM at the same time.
Speaker 1: I need the skin tightening man that somebody needs to
Speaker 1: come up with the solution just skin tightening. I'm not
Speaker 1: even kidding you. Isn't that the sculpture lift there? Well, no,
Speaker 1: sculpture is an injectable that will add volume, and so
Speaker 1: that's good for people who you know, need volume in
Speaker 1: their face or in their or in their buttocks, something
Speaker 1: like a little hip dip area on a thin woman
Speaker 1: who doesn't have any fat to transfer. You know, the
Speaker 1: first part of BBL or Brazilian butt lift is liposuction
Speaker 1: because you harvest fat from one area, you process it
Speaker 1: and then reinjected somewhere else. So sculpture is good um
Speaker 1: for people who don't have the harvest. It's very expensive though,
Speaker 1: you know, the product itself is and it's really kind
Speaker 1: of way smaller volumes than we're really usually using for
Speaker 1: bbl um but something with who somebody who's got like
Speaker 1: a little hip dip and they don't need a lot
Speaker 1: of volume, but maybe just kind of round out, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, certain areas is good. But as far as
Speaker 1: lepolus auction goes, uh, you know, as far as like
Speaker 1: the pain of suction, maybe it was just a big
Speaker 1: baby because I was so young. No, but you also
Speaker 1: went back to d R to tell them that you
Speaker 1: went to get it, didn't you get the LiPo and
Speaker 1: d R Yeah. Yeah, So this was the reason why
Speaker 1: we wanted to bring you in because there's a lot
Speaker 1: of people who, oh yeah, most a lot of my
Speaker 1: friends have traveled to either Dominican Republic or Colombia. But
Speaker 1: then they come back and it brings them back to
Speaker 1: what we were talking about. They have nobody to care
Speaker 1: for them. They're like just fingers crossed that they can
Speaker 1: find somebody to take out stitches, fingers crossed that they
Speaker 1: don't get an infection, fingers crossed that they don't need
Speaker 1: more pain medication lying under those circumstances too. Isn't that
Speaker 1: when I got to Dominican Republic, I see them, you
Speaker 1: go to increase risk of blood cloths, you know, and
Speaker 1: that could always be tragic. So I don't know exactly,
Speaker 1: you know, whether they're being put on blood thinners by
Speaker 1: their providers. I have actually a good number of out
Speaker 1: of state patients that come and see me. I always
Speaker 1: make sure that they stay in town, you know, for
Speaker 1: a little while. Um, and I always make sure, especially
Speaker 1: because they're going to be traveling, to put them on
Speaker 1: blood thinners, you know, because blood clots are real risk,
Speaker 1: you know, traveling alone and then with surgery is you know,
Speaker 1: can be tragic really, you know what I mean, those
Speaker 1: compression stocks it's sexy to tell. I wanted to ask
Speaker 1: you if you know of any dangerous beauty trends that
Speaker 1: are happening right now. We heard in the news about
Speaker 1: the vampire um facial that some places, I guess we're
Speaker 1: either reusing needles and things like that. Yeah, Like, is
Speaker 1: there anything that you know of that like people should
Speaker 1: maybe stay away from until there's a little more research. Um.
Speaker 1: That's interesting. You know, I think that you know, there
Speaker 1: are some places that are going to be injecting stuff
Speaker 1: that is literally no certified or board certified doctor would
Speaker 1: be doing something like a free silicone injection. You have
Speaker 1: to absolutely know and this happens a lot um, you know,
Speaker 1: on the cheap in bigger cities New York, Miami. So
Speaker 1: if anybody's injecting free silicone, which just means like a
Speaker 1: sir ringe full of like liquid silicone, you know, just
Speaker 1: stay away and none of that stuff is regulated. Um.
Speaker 1: Going back to just bigger procedures, you know, the Brazilian
Speaker 1: butt lift, which is liposuction followed by fact transfer is
Speaker 1: actually one of the most dangerous uh plastic surgery procedures
Speaker 1: you could have done. Really yeah, you know globally. Um.
Speaker 1: And so that I think is also super important to
Speaker 1: make sure that you're going to a provider who you
Speaker 1: know does it a lot. Again, is board certified because
Speaker 1: they have task force uh within our you know, national
Speaker 1: societies that come up with you know, best safe practices. Now,
Speaker 1: let me ask you a question. In in New York
Speaker 1: here we have a lot of what's called you know,
Speaker 1: the Instagram models, the bartenders, the dancers, and a lot
Speaker 1: of them are like super exaggerated when it comes to
Speaker 1: the booty areas cartoonists. Yeah, you know, is that what
Speaker 1: is in there? First of all? And second of all,
Speaker 1: is that fixable? Because sometimes I see it and I'm like,
Speaker 1: this breaks my heart. I know she does not want
Speaker 1: this to look this way, right, Yeah, So it's hard
Speaker 1: to say for sure what's in there. It could be
Speaker 1: free silk, and it could be fat from you know,
Speaker 1: a BBL or fat transfer. Uh. And that's one of
Speaker 1: the things that's interesting you brought up the trend, uh
Speaker 1: that I think is now probably at the point where
Speaker 1: it's kind a little overboard, um where you know, the
Speaker 1: shape is now exaggerated. It's not just like a nice
Speaker 1: curby we're in, but it's it's sad at this point.
Speaker 1: It's it's big and it doesn't look good fortunate. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So you know that's one of the things about trends
Speaker 1: that you have to be aware of, you know, how
Speaker 1: much you're going to dive into that. Can that be fixed? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it could be, depending on what it is. You know,
Speaker 1: you could have but as a doctor and as a doctor,
Speaker 1: are you scared to go in there you don't know
Speaker 1: what you're gonna find, because like, if you don't know
Speaker 1: what's in there, how you only know unless you open
Speaker 1: them up, right, Yeah, I mean, well, you know, they
Speaker 1: may have a good history about what they had done. Um.
Speaker 1: And and I've definitely taken care of people and not
Speaker 1: known what I was going to see and you know,
Speaker 1: found either you know, free silicone or something like that. Um.
Speaker 1: But you know, that's it's one of those things that
Speaker 1: you know, it's an exaggerated expression of a trend, and
Speaker 1: that's you know, one of the things as a patient
Speaker 1: you always want to just again, know what your goals
Speaker 1: are first and try to figure out, you know, the
Speaker 1: best way to achieve them, because then if the trend
Speaker 1: kind of pivots and goes another way, and now you're
Speaker 1: left out there with you know, this body part that
Speaker 1: you don't want anymore now, piggybacking, piggybacking off of that.
Speaker 1: I always say, what's the problem. Have doctors not figured
Speaker 1: out how to do the legs? Because the legs are
Speaker 1: always so skinny. When I see the exaggerated acid, there's
Speaker 1: no situation for the legs yeah, no, I mean they're
Speaker 1: there definitely. Is just you know the fact that you
Speaker 1: take out and harvest. You could put like to but
Speaker 1: they're like, who cares about my legs? I just want
Speaker 1: to or they like or they like a thinner leg
Speaker 1: but a bigger booty. I don't know. I haven't had
Speaker 1: that in my own practice. I just see it and
Speaker 1: I see it looks bizarre. Very Oh my gosh. No.
Speaker 1: Dr to Tella. We cannot thank you enough for coming through.
Speaker 1: And if there's any word of advice about the mommy makeovers,
Speaker 1: because I know there are a lot of women who
Speaker 1: are interested in that. You know, your body does go
Speaker 1: through so much when you're pregnant. What kind of advice
Speaker 1: do you have for a woman who's looking to do that,
Speaker 1: like complete overhaul? Should she work out before she comes
Speaker 1: and sees a plastic surgeon? Should she change her diet? Like?
Speaker 1: What are the keys? You know? I think, um working
Speaker 1: out before you see anybody, any sort of weight loss
Speaker 1: that you think is achievable and kind of being at
Speaker 1: you know, fighting weight, I think is you know great
Speaker 1: for any surgery you're going to have done. You know,
Speaker 1: an excess weight is always gonna you know, um, decrease
Speaker 1: your your own wound healing abilities. UM. And then as
Speaker 1: far as shape goes, you know, depending on what that
Speaker 1: weight number is. You know, if you've got ten or
Speaker 1: fifteen pounds to lose, that's maybe not such a big deal.
Speaker 1: But if you feel like you're on this weight lost
Speaker 1: journey where it's you know, excess of whatever pounds, I
Speaker 1: would say, lose the weight first, you know, so then um,
Speaker 1: you know, your surgeon isn't trying to hit a moving target.
Speaker 1: You know, you're just kind of at a stable weight
Speaker 1: for a few months. UM. People who have like uh,
Speaker 1: you know, weight loss surgery, they'll lose rapidly and it's
Speaker 1: not a great time to do other surgery while you're
Speaker 1: in that um, you know state of metabolism. But just
Speaker 1: like mothers who are done having kids and they've had
Speaker 1: whatever their weight gaining weight loss from pregnancy is, you know,
Speaker 1: just get to a healthy weight that you feel good. UM.
Speaker 1: And then just make sure that you're seeing a surgeon
Speaker 1: that that does that a lot. You know again board
Speaker 1: certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery. You can
Speaker 1: look at their instagram for results and things like that. UM.
Speaker 1: And then just know that you know, you're not alone.
Speaker 1: And so many of these things are fixable. And that's
Speaker 1: what I probably see most of our mommy makeovers. And
Speaker 1: it's interesting because young mothers now are done, you know,
Speaker 1: having children, and they're on Instagram, so they're looking at themselves,
Speaker 1: they're looking at their friends. They want and there's a
Speaker 1: desire to have their old body back. And I think
Speaker 1: that's probably one of the biggest trends in a way
Speaker 1: that you know, women after um, you know, raising children
Speaker 1: a little bit, are want you know, a sexier body back,
Speaker 1: and they're less okay with just being like, well, you know,
Speaker 1: I had kids and this is what I look like.
Speaker 1: This is fine, and it is fine. But so many
Speaker 1: of them are you know, they're they're determined to look
Speaker 1: amazing in a bikini again, and you can and you
Speaker 1: can do it. So many of these things are fixable.
Speaker 1: Most of them are truly surgical in nature, so they
Speaker 1: are going to be some trends and fads that you know,
Speaker 1: it's a non invasive breast lift with some sort of
Speaker 1: you know, thermal device, and you know, I don't think
Speaker 1: they're going to get really what you want out of it.
Speaker 1: You know, a lot of these things are, you know,
Speaker 1: extra skin that needs to be cut off, and you know, now,
Speaker 1: you know what, one of the first things that made
Speaker 1: me really trust you was that I went to doctor
Speaker 1: to tell after I had Asher and it was about
Speaker 1: a year I think after and I wasn't even really
Speaker 1: like at my fighting weight yet, and he said to me,
Speaker 1: he was like, look, you're gonna go through a lot
Speaker 1: for very little. He could have easily just taken my
Speaker 1: money and been like, yeah, I'll give you, you know,
Speaker 1: a little tummy tucker or whatever, and he was just like,
Speaker 1: you know, reevaluated think about it. And I appreciated his
Speaker 1: honesty because I think there are a lot of doctors
Speaker 1: out there that are just ready to take your money.
Speaker 1: And he made me really think about like, no, you
Speaker 1: know what, I am a healthy person. I can achieve
Speaker 1: this on my own, you know. And so you were
Speaker 1: really the catalyst that helped me. And that's why I
Speaker 1: tell everybody like, I've just enjoyed getting to know you
Speaker 1: through that experience. You know. But there are a lot
Speaker 1: of doctors out there that just want the quick fix,
Speaker 1: and they're like, well, we'll go ahead and take your
Speaker 1: five ten grand or whatever it is. Exactly let me
Speaker 1: see it all. And I see a lot of people
Speaker 1: you know that are like that, and I tell them,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't think that this is worth it.
Speaker 1: You know, I see what you're looking at. You have
Speaker 1: a little extra loose skin. Yeah, everybody, it looked like
Speaker 1: a sad beagles like you know, but now I don't
Speaker 1: have them anymore. Not good, So you could do it? Yeah.
Speaker 1: So there's certain you know, borderline scenarios where I'll try
Speaker 1: to use a patient that you know, maybe surgery is
Speaker 1: not the best thing. And I also then you know,
Speaker 1: warn them to you know, if you go to enough surgeons,
Speaker 1: you're going to find somebody who will operate on you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and that's not necessarily the right the right answer. So well,
Speaker 1: I really quickly before you go, is there anything that
Speaker 1: guys should be doing, because we do have some guy
Speaker 1: listeners to be like podcasts. Can we talk about this
Speaker 1: new surgery men are doing where they have a complete
Speaker 1: six pack and still have love handles? What is that
Speaker 1: your So that there is just like some high definition um,
Speaker 1: you know, body liposuction and even some some fat grafting,
Speaker 1: so kind of uh like with b B or or
Speaker 1: fat crafting anywhere else you harvest some fat and then
Speaker 1: with liposuction then you put it somewhere else. So there
Speaker 1: are some you know, techniques for liposuction of the abdomen
Speaker 1: where you kind of pal paid out, you know that
Speaker 1: um patients, you know, six pack abs, try and feel
Speaker 1: them in there wherever they are. Sometimes it's under a
Speaker 1: little bit of cushioning and you can find and you
Speaker 1: can find them though, so they're light boing until you
Speaker 1: find that muscle right in a way and doing it
Speaker 1: in an exaggerated way where I always thought something was
Speaker 1: in there. Well there you could then put fat back
Speaker 1: or just LiPo less over the muscle belly itself, like
Speaker 1: you know, the curve of the muscle, so you could
Speaker 1: just like leave some fat there and where the lines are,
Speaker 1: you know, do a little more, you think, honey, you
Speaker 1: think that because Drake and French Montana got me wondering
Speaker 1: like where did these did not grow overnight? Honey, we
Speaker 1: are not dumb, okay, And you can put implants in
Speaker 1: there too, That's what I always thought it was. Really Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: there are certain soft silicone implants that you could put
Speaker 1: like in each you know. Wow, my questions have been
Speaker 1: so weird. I feel so bad for him. This has
Speaker 1: been amazing, you know, And I think the true takeaway
Speaker 1: is that, you know, the one thing that you said before,
Speaker 1: I would hate for anybody to go throughout their life
Speaker 1: feeling bad about a certain part of themselves. Like things
Speaker 1: are fixable and there are options, but go through the
Speaker 1: right channel and get it done the right way, like
Speaker 1: if you want to get a nose job, if you
Speaker 1: want to get a breast job, like you can finance it,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, And that's something that a lot
Speaker 1: of people feel like they're desperate. So I'm really really
Speaker 1: glad that you shed a lot of light for us
Speaker 1: on this whole entire subject. Don't worry, I won't come
Speaker 1: back to your office for another three months and I
Speaker 1: got some time. Thank you so much for thanks so much,
Speaker 1: thanks for having me. Of course, I am just I'm thinking.
Speaker 1: I've been thinking. All my questions have been answered. I'm
Speaker 1: so happy right now. I know, I really do think
Speaker 1: that plastic surgery now it's not as taboo as before.
Speaker 1: You remember, people used to come out looking like cats
Speaker 1: and stuff, like back in the What's the Cat Lady?
Speaker 1: They see exactly Jocelyn Wildondenstein. But yeah, that's the whole thing.
Speaker 1: It's like, you know, we have to be honest and
Speaker 1: we have to help each other out. You know. I'm
Speaker 1: just really glad that people are so open with it
Speaker 1: right now, like even us talking about it. People people
Speaker 1: can ask us questions like they DM me and then
Speaker 1: you know, before you would go you have nobody to
Speaker 1: talk to. Now you have blogs, Now you have videos
Speaker 1: on YouTube explaining the dangers, the pros, the cons. So
Speaker 1: I'm really happy with where we are right now when
Speaker 1: it comes to plastic surgery. Me too. And I'm really
Speaker 1: glad that, like I don't have to lie to anybody, because,
Speaker 1: like I said, at this point, I'm truthful, like I
Speaker 1: do my BO talks, I don't do anything else. But
Speaker 1: like other than that, when I do the next thing,
Speaker 1: you all will know about it, trust me. And on
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Speaker 1: you go to Abiza, yes, and then you'd be a
Speaker 1: good girl out there. Don't let anybody buy you drinks
Speaker 1: because you don't know what's in those things. First of all,
Speaker 1: I am think as hell. Ain't nobody in trying to
Speaker 1: pick me up? It was Jamaica, girl, you in danger.
Speaker 1: It was Africa, honey, you in danger. But in Europe
Speaker 1: I don't want all this. Well, be safe, abe, We'll
Speaker 1: see you next time.