TV host Wendy Williams has always been refreshingly frank about her surgeries (as well as her extensive wig collection), and for xoJane’s “makeunder” feature, she was as candid as ever. Perhaps most interesting were her comments about people who look down on her for getting surgery, particularly black women:
They are jealous. Because if I said to that person, “I got the doctor and I’m going to pay for it. Choose three things you want to do,” believe me, they would get it done. They are very jealous and scared. Scared of what their other friends would say, or to break out of the box and be different. And being black? Ugh, please. My people will not go for any kind of surgery. We are supposed to be natural. Ugh, whatever.
Source: nymag.com/daily/fashion/2012/05/williams-why-black-women-avoid-plastic-surgery.html
There are few open celebrities on the topic of plastic surgery. Wendy Williams is amongst them. Maybe I should send her one of my CosmeticSurgeryTruth.com t-shirts? lol.
On the subject of black women and plastic surgery, I have seen too few to be an expert on the topic. Like many ethnic patients perhaps African American ladies tend to go to doctors of their own ethnicity. This is common for many ethnic patients.
Then again if you up and offered to make quality plastic surgery services available to women of any ethnicity I’d bet you Wendy is right and you would get quite a few takers. They might not want to be all that public about it afterward though.
Best Regards,
John Di Saia MD
Wendy is bomb.