In England the American television show Mad Men is very popular. Because of the show’s popularity, many women are going to plastic surgeons to help them achieve the hour-glass figures that the female leads possess.
Last year the Harley Medical Group, England’s largest cosmetic surgery provider, saw a 54 percent increase in women having fat removed from their backs through liposuction. They are dubbing it “the Mad Men effect.” The poster girl for the hour-glass shape is Christina Hendricks who plays Joan Harris.
Mad Men is based in the sixties; back then women wore corsetry and had smaller waists. The larger waists that women have today are blamed partially on the inactive lifestyles. In order to obtain his hour-glass shape women are having fat removed from their backs in the attempt to eliminate the “muffin top.” Even for women who exercise regularly, eliminating extra fat from the back can be difficult, if not impossible.
For many women, having the fat on the back is partially genetic. The body keeps fat here as an emergency reserve, and doctors aren’t sure why this happens. According to the doctors at the Harley Medical Group, the only way to eliminate the back fat is to become severely underweight, the antithesis of the hour-glass shape. So for women who want the hourglass figure liposuction may be one of the surest ways to achieve this physique, and is minimally evasive. Liposuction can be utilized to remove unwanted fat from many areas of the body.
