‘Real Housewives of Beverly Hills’ alum Teddi Mellencamp has shared with fans her decision to undergo an upper blepharoplasty. Moreover, the reality star went ahead with the surgery to remove excess skin from her eyelids while continuing to receive treatment for stage four cancer.
"Of course, it was fine with my cancer doctors, that’s why I agreed to do it," Mellencamp said on Instagram on October 13. She also shared that she had immunotherapy the next day, and that she is getting stitches out this October 15.
Indeed, plastic surgery’s popularity has increased over the years. Once reserved for reconstructive purposes, it was its application as providing aesthetic changes that made this surgical intervention a multi-billion dollar industry. Better and more affordable procedures attract people from all walks of life to go under the knife and cosmetically change whatever body part they choose to. But at what cost? Plastic surgery carries quite a few risks and has some serious side effects.
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