Cosmetic surgery for senior men
Sharyn Alfonsi from CBS News reports a startling new trend among older men:
“Over the last five years, the number of men having plastic surgery has increased by more than 700 percent, and many of the men making up that new statistic are men in their late 60s, 70s even their 80s.
“I’m not surprised that men are getting plastic surgery,” says Helen Fisher, a sexual anthropologist. She says the definition of “middle age” is expanding in America.
“Demographers now say middle age should be up to age 85, and we’ve got more and more men in their 60s and 70s who feel middle aged, are middle aged and want to look middle aged,” Fisher says.
So some men take it into their own hands, or at least a good surgeon’s hands. Aging actors, like Michael Douglas and retirement age rockers like Ozzy Osbourne, are rumored to have been nipped or tucked.
And while they’re not talking, their faces tell the story, just like the growing group of grandparents in Dr. Mark Erlich’s book of “happily-ever afters.”
Personally, I don’t see the point of risking the complications of surgery at that age. What do you think?