Would you feel it reasonable to sue for cosmetic failures?

Just imagine being so famous and beautiful that you have the confidence to claim you wouldn't wake up for less than $10000 as LE reportedly did.

As her face was her fortune, I can understand her distress at the procedure going wrong. But you only have to look at those who have extensive facial ‘work’ to see that nothing can hold back the years. My face doesn’t look unlike Linda Evangelista’s, but I’m pretty typical for my age, and like many of us, I guess, I can look back wistfully on having a pretty, young face!

I think it’s reasonable to sue as she’s suffered loss of earnings as well as distress. She seems to be doing it as a way of moving on from keeping out of the public eye.

She looks as if she had put on an enormous amount of weight. Her face was also quite square, so putting on weight would also make her face bigger. With all cosmetic procedures there is risk, most people take that risk as usually they will be fine, but there’s always the exception. It’s hard getting old when your job is very much determined on being slim and attractive and the models getting younger. I want a tooth implant but when told there is a very slight risk of permanent painful nerve damage. I decided against it, the dentist was most surprised as the risk was minimal.

Is she just complaining about what happened to her or saying to young women don’t risk having procedures, just be happy with how you look? Having said that I can understand people having nose jobs and things like that. If I could have had my sticky out ears pinned back when I was young I would have done. And I often wonder if I would have been tempted to have a boob job given that I was totally flat chested until I gained weight in my forties.

M0nica

If you pay someone to do a job, install a kitchen, put a hook on the wall, do plastic surgery on you. If the job is botched and not done properly then you seek compensation.

I don't think it was botched though, it was a known rare complication. I'm sure she was required to sign a disclaimer or consent form or whatever it's called that explains that. Bit like when you read the possible side effects of medication, it can happen but might be very rare.

Oh, well that is different. But the basic rule still applies. If a job is not done to standard you can sue.

The job might be done right but the result not be right due to known risks.

The point is, not every body responds to surgery (or non-surgical) in the same way. It doesn't necessarily mean something has been done wrong. It means you have had a less typical response.

I've learned that I don't always heal quickly or easily after surgery. Also that I'm very allergic to all types of surgical dressings. I only found that out POST surgery. My surgeon didn't do anything wrong.