Illustration: Mari Fouz
Facelifts were once seen as a last-resort surgery. Now—for reasons that range from Ozempic to Zoom—women in their 30s and 40s are paying big for the procedure.
They say that 60 is the new 40. But when it comes to facelifts, you might want to reverse those numbers.
Last year, driven by a desire to achieve “a more lifted appearance” and “address the heaviness in [her] lower face,” Carina Hrankowski, 38, underwent a facelift with Dr. Chia Chi Kao, a plastic surgeon in Santa Monica, Calif. The procedure took over 11 hours to perform and left her racked with anxiety. “I covered the mirror in my recovery suite, and there were moments where I began to panic and think, ‘What have I done?’” she said.
