Product Description
New York City’s Park Avenue between 64th and 72nd Streets is the pinnacle for a plastic surgeon—if you can make it here, you’re at the top of your game. Home to the most renowned plastic surgeons—and clientele—in the world, it takes immense training and sacrifice to be successful on Park Avenue. Dr. Cap Lesesne, an internationally known plastic surgeon whose clients you would recognize from movies, TV, and the covers of magazines—supermodels, royalty, rock stars, and the very, very rich—now takes us behind the scenes to reveal the lives of his patients and the intimate reasons for which they call on his services.

Privy to his patients’ greatest insecurities, fears, and desires, Dr. Lesesne writes of making them over in the image of their favorite celebrities; being flown to a secret location to perform surgery on a queen and her lady in waiting; performing last-minute liposuction to perfect a model just seventy-two hours before a photo shoot; trying to turn back the clock for mega-rich dowagers who have started dating someone younger; and dozens of other fascinating cases. Dr. Lesesne also reveals his own struggles and challenges, and the toll his career has taken on his personal life.

A riveting insider’s account, Confessions of a Park Avenue Plastic Surgeon puts an astonishing new face on this booming industry.

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 11 reviews)

Very interesting

This was so interesting; NOT your typical plastic surgery book. Very insightful.

I wished he'd name names (it drove me nuts guessing!) but of course he can't.
April 11, 2008

Great read for anyone, any age

I read the book after my mother recommended it to me. It was fun and exciting and gave good advice on anyone who has ever gave some thought to plastic surgery. My mother is a patient of his and had a face lift done about a year ago and looks more beautiful than ever. It shows you that nobody is perfect and everyone is selfconscious, no matter what your rank in society is.
April 09, 2008

Read this only if you are a plastic surgery industry supporter

Like it says in the title of my review - you will probably only enjoy this book if you have had plastic surgery, are contemplating plastic surgery, or are just a general supporter of people who have plastic surgery. If you are not one of those people (like me), this book will be mostly an annoyance. I was really hoping this book would be an interesting look at plastic surgery - who gets it and why. Instead, there is a LOT of information about his background and education. Also - the man is a doctor, and narcissism seems inherent in that profession. We have to read a lot about all the royalty he's worked on, the celebrities, and other richy riches. We have to read a lot about how he is asked to do surgery on people around the globe because he comes so highly recommended. We have to read about how he flies to L.A. once every two months to work on people in the entertainment industry because he is in such high demand. Finally, and perhaps most annoyingly, we have to read about how he sizes up nearly every single person he looks at to see how he can "improve" them. If you don't believe me - read the other reviews of this book. He did it to someone who wrote a review here. Narcissism at it's finest. It was tough to stomach.
January 18, 2008

learned my lesson with amazon

shoot me if i ever buy through amazon again. they don't have what they advertise, they don't have it at the price they advertise and they don't send it anywhere near the time they say they will.

i learned my lesson!
November 19, 2007

confessions of a park avenue plastic surgeon

very good because very human.not very instructive.if you are looking for tips and tricks,you will be disappointed.it is overall how a surgeon feels empathy for his patients but it also shows the shallow side of that fake fight against time.leaves you a little bit sad.but one question:what would the surgeon think if ugly,fat and old were the new criterias of success???????????
March 13, 2007

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