re: Erin Moriarty/ Starlight from The Boys gets plastic surgery.

Were the Olsen twins the first to do this?

Found this portion of an article:

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Surgeons urge caution about the procedure

Surgeons, cosmeticians, and everyday users have also used social media to urge caution about the procedure. Gendler, for instance, posted a TikTok on Monday in which she warned patients, particularly young women, to avoid buccal fat removal.

“The latest trend of buccal fat removal is probably the dumbest trend I’ve seen in a long time,” she said in the video.

Gendler told CNN that because it removes volume from the face, buccal fat removal can have a prematurely aging effect on patients. While it might look flattering at first, as the patient ages and naturally loses volume in their face, the lack of buccal fat may make them appear gaunt and older.

And once your buccal fat is gone, there’s no way to get it back – although cosmetic fillers and fat injections might be used to replicate the look of buccal fat, Gendler said.

“When you take out an underlying structure in a permanent procedure and you age around it, you don’t know how it’s going to look,” she said.

Gendler urged patients contemplating buccal fat removal to consider the risks and understand how their results might change over time. “I feel that it is not a procedure that you should go into without understanding this very real risk,” she said.

Smith emphasized the importance of counseling patients about the pros and cons of each procedure. “One of my main jobs is to help people make sure they’re making responsible decisions when they’re getting procedures,” he said.

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I had remained blissfully ignorant of this. I clearly don't keep up enough with how people mutilate themselves these days.