My passion was to be the Sanjay Gupta of plastic surgery. I wanted to be able to influence and educate the masses, because I think if we don't fill that void, then people who are less qualified will. That's what happened in skin care; it's all influencers, but they're just touting things that they're getting paid to tout, not what's proven or studied or scientific in any way. I'm trying to take that back.
My passion was to be the Sanjay Gupta of plastic surgery. I wanted to be able to influence and educate the masses.
The opportunity to film Skin Decision with Netflix presented itself about two years ago. I had worked with the producer before, so he brought me on, and we filmed from August to November. The show is so important for many reasons.
For one, I think the series shows women that plastic surgery is not all about big this and big that, and that there are different aesthetics that you can aspire to. You don't have to have the biggest butt and the biggest breasts and overblown lips; there are other ways to do it. Plastic surgery and things like Botox are becoming a little bit more mainstream. Younger people are talking about it, and they're not as embarrassed. But that's just one reason it's important.
Two: I wish I had more female mentors I could identify with in school. I didn't. You couldn't be "feminine" back in the day to survive, but for me, it was very important to have a family as well as my career. I think it's very important to show other women and young girls that you can have it all. It's going to be hard, you have to work really hard, but you can get to the point where you have your family and you have your career. You have to put in the work in your 20s to reap the benefits in your 30s.
