Kelly Ripa and celebrity plastic surgeon Dr. David Rosenberg got candid about how social media can affect beauty standards.
Ripa, 54, and Rosenberg discussed the serious effects that social media can have on young adults while chatting on the Wednesday, February 5, episode of SiriusXM’s “Let’s Talk Off Camera with Kelly Ripa.”
“Do you think people are suffering from body dysmorphia from seeing themselves filtered so much on their own social media, that when they look in the mirror and they don’t see the actual filtered face it’s creating some sort of unrealistic panic or unrealistic idea of what they believe they can look like?” Ripa asked the doctor.
Rosenberg responded by acknowledging the fact that social media is “a really big problem with teenagers.” He went on to share that some young people have come to his office in hopes he can give them a viral Turkish nose job — a look that he said “would never be created in nature.”
“They’re exceedingly rotated and pinched and they’re on Instagram. For some percentage of the nose job population in their mid- to late-teens, they get caught [up] on that as being an aesthetic goal,” the plastic surgeon explained of the viral procedure. “That’s been hard. I don’t find that that’s the typical patient in my practice, because people know that I’m going to be more understated than that.”
Ripa agreed with Rosenberg. “That’s not a look that you’re gonna give to a kid,” she said about the thin and pinched nose, which is sure to “collapse” with age.
“It’s going to be at risk of that or the skin gets thinner,” Rosenberg agreed. “It’s not a thing of beauty, from my perspective.”
The doctor also shared that clients have asked to see him after viewing themselves on Zoom or FaceTime at a so-called “bad angle.”
“Then they come in and look incredible,” he laughed. “If you use your iPhone, your nose is magnified.”
“That’s why we look like monsters?!” Ripa exclaimed. “I was like, ‘What is wrong with my phone?’”
Roseberg explained, “Whatever’s closest to the lens looks bigger. Steve Jobs really helped us plastic surgeons.”
Moral of the story, don’t rely on the iPhone’s front camera to accurately show off your features.
