A Moment on the Lips; a Lifetime in the...

By Thomas Francis Thu., Dec. 3 2009 at 2:49 PM

Categories: Technology

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Kirstie Alley, post-op

...Tits? That article in the New York Times is the reason you're liable to see droves of chubby women lining up outside plastic surgeon offices. Yes, cosmetic scientists are making progress in lipo-suctioning fat out of one undesirable location in a woman's body so that that same fat can be placed in a desirable location -- the breasts.

Shockingly, South Florida's plastic surgeons, divorcees and trophy wives are on the vanguard of this technology:

Sarah, a petite 34-year-old woman from Miami who asked that only her first name be used, considered implants, but said she didn't want her breasts to "look hard or fake or extremely unnatural."

So she had Dr. Roger K. Khouri, a plastic and reconstructive surgeon in charge of the Miami Breast Center, take fat from her thighs and buttocks to fill out her chest. "I love that it's just mine, my own fat," she said. "I didn't have to put anything foreign in my body."

Except that Sarah probably gained that unwanted weight by putting "foreign," "unnatural" things -- like foods with polyunsaturated fat -- into her stomach. Besides, when you have fat from your ass pumped into your chest, you pretty much lose the right to use that word "natural."