The ‘Kate’ effect has made waves right across the British fashion industry. But now Kate is being used by a plastic surgery company to promote its liposuction treatments:

‘Kate, 29, has said in the past that a healthy and balanced diet and sensible exercise regime is behind her slim and athletic figure… even these traditional methods of keeping your body in shape don’t work for all women’.

While Kate maintains her enviable figure through diet and exercise, some of us need a little extra help, says the company’s website.

Source: dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2155756/Kate-Middleton-
Plastic-surgery-firm-uses-Duchess-Cambridge-promote-liposuction.html

There was discussion of plastic surgery ads becoming outlawed in the UK not that long ago. Inferring that liposuction is the solution for women who want to look like Kate Middleton is an empty promise to say the least. Then again having any cosmetic procedure with the goal of looking like someone else is an equation that is likely to lead to disappointment.

Liposuction like any operation has risks and benefits. A frequent risk of any cosmetic procedure (at least in the hands of an honest and competent surgeon) is that of unrealistic expectations. The expectation that the “medical company” is hinting at here is pretty ridiculous.

Kate Middleton has an ectomorphic body frame. Genetics handed her this gem of “thinness.” A woman can expect liposuction to reduce fatty tissues when they are present in average or greater quantities. A woman with anything but an ectomorphic body frame could not reasonably use Kate Middleton as a target for anything within plastic surgery. Ectomorphic body types rarely seek liposuction anyway.

By definition ectomorphs are thin and don’t often come to consider it.

The Bottom Line: Liposuction when properly applied to the right patient can make him or her look thinner, but not like someone else.

Best Regards,

John Di Saia MD