American Beauty - Billion Dollar Botox Bill
Americans last year spent an estimated $13.2 billion — more than the gross domestic product of Bolivia — on cosmetic surgery.
What did they get?
In the past decade, surgical cosmetic procedures have more than doubled, and nonsurgical procedures — such as Botox injections — grew nearly eightfold. …
An array of bodily rearrangements from face-lifts to buttock [...]
