Playboy baron… Fiery registrar Sophie Harrison has never been more furious! She is convinced the new director of surgery has been appointed only for his title. Baron Rupert Charles Radley is a man never out of the gossip rags, with a different woman in tow each week. Experience tells her not to trust men of his class. Or top-notch doc? Charlie turns out to be gorgeous. Yet after being stalked by paparazzi and finding pictures of the two of them splashed across Celebrity Life magazine, Sophie is determined to keep a low profile. Except, she's slowly learning that beneath the prestige, title and white coat is a genuine, caring and very sexy man!
The life of Dr. Robert Rey is an amazing overcoming lesson. He's life had everything to go wrong, but against all odds he eventually became the best known plastic surgeon in the world, multimillionaire and international celebrity. A successful story of a boy who was the last to learn to read in class, and ended up graduating at Harvard. In the book, "Dr. 90210 " shares terrible details of his personal life and reveals secrets of how, starting from almost nothing, he became a famous plastic surgeon, a TV star known around the world and a successful businessman. With only one line of products, "Dr. Rey Shapeware," he made over than US$100 million! An incredible story of entrepreneurship. Born in a dysfunctional family and at a poor neighborhood in So Paulo - Brazil, Dr. Robert Rey had to fight with all his strength to win. He immigrated to the US at the age of 12 and lived with a Christian family in the Utah. Robert Rey suffered prejudice, was discredited by all and yet he managed to graduate at Harvard University. Great entrepreneur, Dr. Rey has created more than 20 product lines marketed in over than 120 countries. He also have dozens of aesthetic clinics in the US, Mexico and Brazil. The TV loves Dr. Rey, the Beverly Hills' plastic surgeon who became one of the most seen TV stars during the last 10 years. His first TV Show, "Dr. 90210" was aired in 173 countries and every episode was watched by over 370 million people all over the world. That kind of success made Dr. Rey became one of the world's richest doctors, living a life that seems more like a Hollywood movie. Fans and readers will finally know the secrets of personal, professional life and also the plans for the future of Dr. Robert Rey, the true Dr.90210!!
Americans have long been fascinated by the personal lives of Hollywood celebrities and the over-hyped magic of plastic surgery. In this entertaining memoir, Dr. Norman Leaf, a highly respected plastic surgeon, reveals the complex and all-too-human connection that exists between these two worlds. In his thirty-five years practicing in Beverly Hills, California, Leaf has encountered the great and those aspiring to be great, seeing them in a different light than the general public. This unique perspective contributes to a touching, inspiring, humorous, and eye-opening journey into a world few have the opportunity to see close-up, while debunking the myths and clearing up the misconceptions about plastic surgery. Are Those Real? is not a kiss-and-tell memoir. With the exception of a few iconic figures, Leaf is careful to protect the identities of his patients. Sometimes hilarious, sometimes heartbreaking, Are Those Real? paints an intimate portrait of a master surgeon, while shining a light into a little-known corner of modern culture. In this memoir, Leaf appeals to biography buffs and illustrates the good, bad, happy, and just plain funny aspects of plastic surgery.
The celebrity cosmetic surgery blogger describes his misfit youth as a nerdy Korean-American student with a misshapen jaw whose life-changing surgery led him to become a successful plastic surgeon.
Dr. Linder, Diplomate of the American Board of Plastic Surgery, specializes in body sculpting procedures in Beverly Hills, California. He discusses the specifics of procedures on patients from all walks of life, including some of Hollywood's rich and famous, in order to help readers make intelligent decisions when considering pursuing plastic surgery.
Two plastic surgeons were born into a large family as the second set of twins. There were eight siblings five girls and three boys. The father was a ranch hand who moved the large family to Borger, Texas to try his luck in the oil boom of the early 1920. Because of the financial disaster of the time he became a house painter and an alcoholic. The mother took in boarders to keep the family fed. She was a strong lady and encouraged the boys to stay in school and work their way through college and medical school. The older brother had migrated to Los Angeles and became a tooling engineer for Douglas Aircraft. He was able to get his young brothers Jobs on the swing shift so they could attend UCLA. They went on to medical school and surgical training then moved back to the Los Angeles area. Along the way Dr. John managed to have six wives and five children. His second wife was Eva Gabor. There is one chapter devoted to each wife and some special friends, colleagues and a long list of famous patients that I cannot name for obvious privacy reasons.
Celebrity culture has a pervasive presence in our everyday lives – perhaps more so than ever before. It shapes not simply the production and consumption of media content but also the social values through which we experience the world. This collection analyses this phenomenon, bringing together essays which explore celebrity across a range of media, cultural and political contexts. The authors investigate topics such as the intimacy of fame, political celebrity, stardom in American ‘quality’ television (Sarah Jessica Parker), celebrity 'reality' TV (I’m a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here!), the circulation of the porn star, the gallery film (David/David Beckham), the concept of cartoon celebrity (The Simpsons), fandom and celebrity (k.d. lang, *NSYNC), celebrity in the tabloid press, celebrity magazines (heat, Celebrity Skins), the fame of the serial killer and narratives of mental illness in celebrity culture. The collection is organized into four themed sections: Fame Now broadly examines the contemporary contours of fame as they course through new media sites (such as 'reality' TV and the internet) and different social, cultural and political spaces. Fame Body attempts to situate the star or celebrity body at the centre of the production, circulation and consumption of contemporary fame. Fame Simulation considers the increasingly strained relationship between celebrity and artifice and ‘authenticity’. Fame Damage looks at the way the representation of fame is bound up with auto-destructive tendencies or dissolution.
