Liposuction at Age 12
For Brooke Bates of Pflugerville, Texas, exercise and dieting didn’t work, so she decided on a drastic solution: plastic surgery.
The teenager underwent a massive liposuction procedure and a tummy tuck in the spring of 2006, eventually dropping about 50 pounds from her 220-pound frame.
Brooke, now 13, says she’s thrilled with her body, but Dr. Foad Nahai, president of the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, says, “In a 12-year-old, the treatment of obesity isn’t liposuction.
It’s a lifestyle change. It’s counseling. It’s diet and exercise.” Um, duh! [source: In Touch]
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