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Pimp My Bod

Our intrepid reporter travels north Scottsdale in search of the sweet life. Someone's version of it, anyway

A A A Comments (4) By Megan Irwin Thursday, Sep 27 2007

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Is any part of this lifestyle realistic? Is it realistic to expect that bigger breasts or thinner thighs will change your life? Is it realistic to care about local celebrity status as much as Nik Richie says so many people in Scottsdale do?

We are so obsessed with image. I've actually seen signs that ask, "Got Botox?" A recent article in the New York Times Magazine talked about a new technology that would allow parents to genetically engineer a skinnier baby.

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That freaks me out. Yet, I have to admit, if I had the spare $510, I'd probably have booked a Restylane injection already. And when you break it down, I guess that makes me the same as the breast-augmentation girls, and the women who get tummy tucks. It's all vanity, no matter how noninvasive the procedure is.

I recently saw Cedric the Entertainer on TV, talking about the same thing.

"People are getting this shit done just because they can," he said. "They're getting their eyebrows rotated. It's like a human Pimp My Ride."

I know he was making a joke, but he speaks the truth.

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04/30/2011 1:53:00 PM

I have just recently found your blog and absolutely love the posts. Thank you, thank you. I am still .NET programming but can't wait to try these things in Ruby and it is a great help to see such clear examples.

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Arren 08/11/2008 6:59:00 AM

Megan, Congratulations (?) on writing the first article about plastic surgery that I've ever read. Let me just tell you, as an Angeleno who's spent quite a bit of time in Phoenix and Scottsdale: nothing compares to southern California when it comes to all-consuming, near-nihilistic vacuous vanity. You should know that males such as myself, few and far between though we may be, value a woman with your wry wit and healthy self-acceptance more than a harem's worth of plasticine airhead Barbie-dolls. (P.S. I came here from Two Percent Co. vis-�is your reporting on that ignominious fraud Allison DuBois. Please accept my personal thanks for bolstering my faith in humanity, which has been in figurative ICU for some time. Keep up the good work!)