Explained — S03E10 — Plastic Surgery

00:00:07 There is definitely a look that is very on trend

00:00:58 There are all of these slight tweaks that we've been able to see on ourselves.

00:01:56 Well, it's a matter of looking the best you can for as long as you can.

00:02:51 things are riskier, more painful, more permanent.

00:03:47 I mean, you dress 'em up, and, you know, you give them breasts.

00:04:46 But they were a young family

00:05:39 for almost a hundred years.

00:06:40 Their work wasn't just about function.

00:07:28 half of America was going to the movies every week

00:08:18 There are more providers. There are more types of providers.

00:09:05 I think, before my time,

00:09:43 I sort of just had a double mastectomy,

00:10:29 Or in Brazil.

00:11:14 He developed techniques for tummy tucks that hid scarring below the bikini line,

00:12:01 Because the judges said her hips were too big.

00:12:57 resulting in eugenic aesthetic experiments that avoided Africanoid exaggerations.

00:13:53 You know, what is beauty?

00:14:44 That window is getting more narrow.

00:15:37 Like, "Wow, look at these women."

00:16:26 dyeing your hair is less extreme than surgery.

00:17:19 Plastic surgery allows some people

00:18:12 I'm more open to putting myself out there. I'm more open to meeting new people.

00:19:05 because I didn't even know how to explain it to her

00:19:55 and why desirability is even so important to that experience in the first place.