Would you feel it reasonable to sue for cosmetic failures?

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

If I had her money I would get better surgery to put it right. If she was made aware this non-invasive treatment could go wrong and she signed to say she’d read it then she might get no where in court.

Callistemon I didn’t mean to make it sound like follow-up liposuction was an acceptable solution, I understand Linda Evangelista has had 2 follow-up procedures that haven’t helped.

I mentioned it because I felt it would mislead people into thinking any problems could be easily dealt with.

I agree with Buttonjugs, Coco51 and BlueBelle.
Why are so many women obsessed with wanting to look young as they get older. Why can't they simply accept that ageing is a natural part of life and be thankful that they have their health and are still alive. If she was a beautiful woman in her youth she will most probably still be beautiful in her senior years, without surgical intervention. The cosmetic procedures she had undoubtedly cost thousands, just think what that money could have done for a child who was truly disfigured. I have always thought that a person's real beauty is on the inside not their outer packaging.

I ve now looked at the photo and can’t see what she’s talking about how does she class that as being deformed perhaps she needs to do a bit of voluntary work with people who have real facial deformities, silly, conceited woman

Wouldn’t we all like to look the way we did when younger. I think it’s a shame when people can’t accept going old. Young people have plastic surgery it’s second nature too them.
It’s not right when the risk of a procedure is played down. The companies just want the business it’s unscrupulous and they should pay compensation.

I thought she looked like pleasant middle-aged woman - didn’t realise who she was - but that face was definitely not one to warrant shock or horror.
Yesterday on tv saw the face of a child who had been attacked by a hyena.
Operations carry risks that, if you are vain enough to opt for non-essential surgery, you presumably are prepared accept.

Guess where my sympathies lie.

I think she is right to sue them if the professional opinion is that the treatment has damaged her appearance.

It is important that these matters are addressed because it is a warning to others who may consider such treatments that cosmetic procedures don't always work out - and a warning to these clinics that they may be financially liable and reputationally damaged if they are found to be negligent.

I find it really difficult to be sympathetic towards anyone who has cosmetic surgery. I just don’t understand how people subject themselves to mutilation in the name of vanity. All medical procedures carry a risk and I would be nervous about having one for health reasons, never mind cosmetic. She doesn’t look disfigured to me in the pictures, she still looks a lot better than I do! I appreciate she made her money from looking good, but maybe she could find something a bit more worthwhile to do.

As someone who has a lot of aesthetic surgeries, your research is key and you sign a consent form which spells it out quite succinctly. I can’t ever remember signing a consent for for a kitchen or a simple task as putting up a hook. What a ridiculous comparison! ??

And Micheal Jackson.

I think Katie59 has a point. Deliberately made to look plain in that photo, as we all would in close up hair scruffed back,, unflattering glasses. Glowering look. A ploy to get more money or she really doesn’t care what she looks like? This was no paparazzi snap. This is going for broke

Having had, in my thirties.a'nose job' I cant'say I was impressed with the result. It was certainly an improvement. What I was expecting still cannot answer that one but felt more confident and not as previous that every one I met looked at my nose now looked at me the person.

If all the risks are explained and the medic carries out a procedure according to all established methods then it's like everything in life sometimes things don't work out how you'd hoped.

Maybe it's time she used her brain rather than her looks?

I read that this method is not done by doctors neither does it have to be. It is not monitored as it is non invasive. The article also said that many plastic surgeons won't do it because it is not known why sometimes it works and other times has the opposite effect. That alone would stop me having it done- not that I would want to. The most I have done beauty wise is having my hair dyed.

Exactly varian

She is obviously depressed that the treatment did not give the results she wanted, that in itself has aged her. Instead of looking bright eyed and confident, that haircut, awful glasses and sad expression makes her look very average.

Maybe deliberately to back up her claim.