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Real Housewives Of Athens Get Work Done As Cosmetic Surgery Costs Plunge
While the Greek economy remains under the proverbial knife of the Troika, it appears the wealthy in the island nation are transforming themselves at record rates. Der Spiegel reports that not only does Greece have the second highest rate of cosmetic surgery per capita in the world but thanks to a slumping economy, surgeons have cut prices by up to 40% and rich Greeks are tucking, lifting, and firming at record rates...
Via Der Spiegel,
The economic crisis has forced thousands in Greece to rely on volunteers for even basic health care services.
Meanwhile, wealthier Greeks are having more facelifts and breast implants than anywhere in the world.
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Every year, the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ISAPS) performs a survey of the number of plastic surgery procedures performed worldwide. When the numbers are compared to a country's population, the results are surprising for Greece. In 2011, 142,394 procedures were performed in the country, with its population of about 11 million. That means that, on average, one in 79 Greeks has had procedures such as liposuction, eyelid corrections and Botox injections performed on them. Worldwide, the Greeks rank only second to the South Koreans in terms of the number of cosmetic procedures performed per 1,000 inhabitants (see graphic). In Germany, with a population of about 81 million, there were 415,448 procedures in 2011, or one in about 200.
2011 was the year of the economic crisis, and yet Greece rose even higher in the international ranking. Looking good still seems to be important to the Greeks. But why now?
The country has cut costs drastically in other areas of medicine.
Many hospitals have reduced their emergency room hours to only four days a week, resulting in longer waits for patients. Owing to cuts in government payments to doctors, many now expect patients to pay their bills in cash. Likewise, experts estimate that about 35 percent of Greeks have no health insurance. So how is it possible that the beauty business is still in full swing?
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"Maybe they're earning less money, but they are working. We adjust ourselves to the market." His prices have declined by 40 percent in the last two years, mostly because his costs have come down. Athanasiou performs his operations in private clinics. In the past, he says, a hospital charged €2,000 for the use of an operating room, but now the price has dropped to €700. An anesthesiologist, he adds, now charges €150 instead of the €400 he or she used to charge.
Athanasiou now charges between €2,500 and €5,000 for a nose correction or a breast augmentation. "That's a good price," he says.
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In one respect, Vichas shares the sentiments of cosmetic surgeon Athanasiou. "I also see an opportunity in the crisis,"
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Greek women. Nuff said.
I would have thought that line of business would have gone bust by now.
[rimshot]
Yah. But try to see 'em.
What the fuck!?
Didn't see this trend a comin'.
So what you're saying is it's not just the banking that is fake in Greece?
Looks like that lady has a couple of Col. Klinks stuffed in her shirt.
What lady?
They pulled the regular bait and switch again.
Click on the picture and all you get is a bunch of boring text.
Yes, it's a big ZeroHedge failing ...
Teaser pic but no enlarged version with the article !
FIX THIS PROBLEM, TYLER !
Yes, I'd like a LOT more photographic evidence of this trend.
More photos, Tyler... or it didn't happen!
You'd need a hydraulic press to squeeze those boobs.
Do you guys really like that fake boob look? Seems pretty unnatural to me like 2 melons stuck to a wall. They get hard too. Some work associate with a pair like that bumped into me once a gave me a bruise. I guess there's no accounting for taste. You can lift the breast but not necessarily the mind.
Miffed;-)
There's something downright eerie about them as the owner ages, too. Everything else looks natural except the chest unless they've had full body work. And running a code on someone with them is just ... annoying.
When the code is unsuccessful, they're still just as perky/hard as rocks as ever. Bizarre.
...And running a code on someone with them is just ... annoying.
'Running a code' on someone? DNA is a type of code... is 'running a code' a euphemism for a Pearl Necklace?
How apposite ;-)
Just imagine them as seniors: balloons dangling from a skeleton.
Also imagine View Tattoos in old age -- all stretched and folded, like a shar pei.
'Running a code' = The combined major efforts to resuscitate someone via medical and/or surgical intervention after a cardiopulmonary collapse or major traumatic incident.
But I suspect you knew that. :)
So if you hit em with those paddles does the electricty just boil the saline and they explode? I guess if you do a chest massage to try to get the heart going it''s like pushing on a volleyball.
Defibrillator paddles aren't placed on the implants. There's enough room to work around them. As for CPR, that's done directly on the sternum itself.
I couldn't tell you how an implant compares, turgor-wise, to a volleyball. Someone here may supply that for us.
I've had several patients over the years with obviously "enhanced" attributes. Something odd about the appearance of a 70+ yr old woman with perky, round boobs that point at the ceiling when lying in bed, as gravity has had it's way with everything else. Real boobs are certainly more "code friendly", as they tend to migrate to the axilla to allow for chest compressions. That being said, they don't look any stranger than other body modifications (extensive tattoos) women choose.
When SHTF, you still need nice breasts to look at. Makes the days go by easy
Oh my...
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Is it normal to have a green boner while reading ZH? lol
Just think about what one 1 oz silver coin could buy you in Greece.
thanks for keeping us abreast of the issues
and like most derivatives, they seem risky
there is noting more confusing or aggitaiting to loose women than sound money silverking. Stick to fiat when entertaining the ladies. they like to be able to tuck it under their thong, snort coke thru it and have it thrown at them without getting hurt.
You make very valid points. Duly noted.
And thanks.
Try paying a bar tab with a silver eagle.
Females, bartenders & others, light up when they see the shiny stuff.
Like trout hit shiny lures...
+1 for the username!
ok, atleast one use for the fiat
South Korea is number one??? I never would have guessed that.
I bet it's mostly all eye lids.
Awwww, I insulted some ignorant Junker.
"Girls here consider eye surgery just like using make up."
The trend is just warming up in Korea...
http://www.koreabang.com/2012/pictures/miss-korea-2012-dubbed-plastic-qu...
But make sure that if you are in Thailand to check under the hood first....
Medical tourism. See Encyclopedia YouTube.
yep. I spent a lot of time in korea. All the girls like to get their eyes rounded. Even girls like 14-15 years old.
Maybe the men want to look like PSY and the women want to look like American Korean bisexual comedian Margaret Cho.
She supposedly dated Tarantino and Chris Issak. Tarantino would make any woman bisexual and Chris Issak must have been very very drunk to date her.
Freddie's always up to date on his Hollywood trivia...
You must miss Oprah.
It's all the TV he watches. Can't get enough of that MSM, apparently.
Especially the one over the urinal...
+1 I don't know, I thought that was fuckin' funny. Considering...
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-04-24/just-what-going-gold-jpmorgans-vault#comment-3496198
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-04-24/america-fallen-24-signs-our-once-proud-cities-are-turning-poverty-stricken-hellholes#comment-3495316
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-04-23/guest-post-america-long-indifference-short-indignation#comment-3491490
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-04-24/cnbc-viewership-plunges-eight-year-lows#comment-3493071
:-)
Where do you sign up for the post recovery breast masseuse position?
I would like to volunteer for that position.
<- Tits
<- Ass
Physical bitchez, bitchez !
As much as I loves me some titties, the ass is where it's at!
Tits are for kids.
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Ass = the focal point.
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Lets put it this way...If she has a nice pair of tits - it does not necessarily mean she has a nice body.
But if she has a nice tight hot ass - i guarantee you her body will be nice...regardless of how big or small her tits are.
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Btw, women are beautiful...
Is that a money back guarantee?
Every day Blotto, this blog emanates truth and wisdom, but they might as well shut down ZH for the rest of the day, because no purer truth will be written.
Amen
that's what the greeks say
how do i vote for both
Never understood the obsession with tits and ass. I prefer them sporty, not weighed down with mass in places most likely to unbalance their center of gravity. WTF is so sexy about clumsy?
Here's a tip for the ladies, especially the Greek ones: Wax. Most men grow out of wanting to hug their teddy bears.
The sexiest woman in the world is always one that has just stepped out of a shower. Sexiest wife in the world is one that can hold a two-way conversation with reason and accountability.
Does plastic surgery include hair removal?
Check your plan coverage or talk to your benefits administrator.
Well, ladies have to do something because all men are increasingly going with paid professionals. What fucking crisis ? (pun intended)
Fake tits....meh
I'm having bronzed cucumbers implanted all over my chest, thighs and back....
I'll be a one man orgy and oh so sexy....Laaaadies???
How about throw in a nose job?
Electrolysis must be included.
Its all gone tits up
not greeks......."tits down"
Surely you mean, "pecs down".
"Its all gone tits up"
Comment of the day! lol
Bolt-on performance
If anything should be covered under Obamacare, it should be breast implants. At least that's something all of us can get some enjoyment out of.
Breast implants are offensive. Swing low, sweet chariots.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmayP-ZEcF8
You didn't enhance that.
I think most of these are hair removal.
Ouch!
Needs more research...
"We gonna need more wax!!!"
- 40 Year Old Virgin
Wax on. Wax off.
For the last 20 years, I'm looking for the doctor that will be able to transplant a wife's excess hair to her husband's less than covered head. This is the investment opportunity of a lifetime, think the next MSFT!!!
Check Joe Biden. I think he got his wifes pussy hair on his head
... I think he's got his head in his wife's pussy hair.
I think he actually has a pussy
If bald husband still has pubic hair, Bosley hair procedure is recommended.
I doubt that's the case with Korea.
Born with breasts .....acquire tits in the secondary market.
Apparently, you get what you pay for.
Columbia? Mexico? those are two surprises ...
Apparently you have never seen Latin soap operas, me neither but I have known gents who can't speak a work of spanish and watch them for the women.
While on the topic of Greece....http://www.telenovelas.gr/
Virus link for a trojan horse jackass.
Although come to think of it, maybe that was your joke. Funny and yet not funny.
Dang I'm busted!!!
Does that count as CAPEX?
I think that all depends upon line of "work."
Pro/Am: the line blurs.
Until the action starts...
A 'rich' Greek is someone who had investments 'outside' of Greece...
Probably throw in a back shaving complimentary.
Now that's a desperate market!
Doesn't this tie in perfectly to the article posted earlier today about high Greek unemployment (especially youth and female) and the growth in the shadow economy? I can think of one profession in the shadow economy (hopefully youthful and female, but we are talking about Greece here) that would lead to these sorts of capital investments...certainly gives ROA a new meaning!
Just a heads up the chick in the caption's tits are fake.
That's OK, I don't mind!
Upon closer inspection, I don't care.
He said heads up...
FIAT TITS!!!!
Screw the Bar chart Tyler, show us the two "PIE" charts that you teased us with to get us to click. Opa!
That might bring in tourists for a second opinion...
I'm surprised Germany is so far down the list. i mean with its great economy and all ...
I've got to assume that East Germany skews the average.
You mean, like...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katarina_Witt
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=katarina+witt
I can see how she needs a lot of 'work'. Nudge, nudge, ;-) ;-)
Exactly.
I've never used bing image search before, so it was quite a pleasant suprise to watch the image previews resize the images as you move the mouse from one to the next. It's almost as if I was watching a magic show, or something.
Most German women are so ugly that surgery wouldn't help. And they don't care what they look like anyway.
long breast implant !
They should include a lifetime supply of deodorant with each procedure and forced compliance of usage until subject turns ugly.
Troika can't confiscate boobs but can confiscate bank deposits. Invest in "real" assets?
I'm sensing a real business opportunity :).
Cue the tit tax...
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Well at least they're finally investing in some assets that go up!
Korea is the best place to go if you want to look like Miss Korea and all the Miss Korea runners up.
http://www.thegloss.com/2013/04/25/beauty/miss-korea-2013-contestants-plastic-surgery-photos/
They all look the same to me......now which ones were boys???
I may still have trouble telling asians apart, but those look like EXACT CLONES!
Ever seen this even scarier trend? ---> Real life anime girl
Wow, can they stretch the aspect ratio of your face now too?
Well Fook Mi, they all look the same!
All cats look gray in the dark. And purr the same.
I want one!
maybe you like japanese?
http://www.kanojotoys.com/candygirl-jewel-rosa-japanese-love-doll-p-167....
haha, no I prefer them to be alive & kickin' thanks
They are all pretty but they all look alike like b**cks, M***cans, etc. Just kidding. It is funny how people of different races can look at another race and say "they all look a like."
But sh*t - these girls do all look a like. They all must have had work because they do not look korean. They all look like a Japanese-western hybrid. This is weird.
There is a notion of what the perfect female is supposed to look like and that is what drives this. For example, all of them have their eyes and noses fixed in the same way to look cutesy caucasian. Your head has to beshaped like an upside down robin egg to even get in the hunt.
Asian women all want to have their plastic surgery in Korea. Men who want gender change surgery want to go to Thailand.
This all carries into their aspirations in entertainment and searching for a sugar daddy or hubby.
http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2012/327/6/a/asian_lingerie_model_05_b...
http://www.khaskhabar.com/images/gallery/large_image/Lingerie-Girls-129.jpg
nuff said
The second girl is gorgeous.
Plus, they follow behind you at a safe distance...
South Korea on number one spot didn't surprise me at all, you guys heard of Hang Mioku ?
*Hang Mioku was obsessed with silicone injections as she wanted 'soft' skin
*Doctors told her she had psychological issue and refused more treatments
*Korean resorted to injecting cooking oil leaving her permanently disfigured
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2320679/Korean-woman-Hang-Mioku-...
Bet they put it on their plastic as well.
1. Google Image "Greek Women"
2. Start Fappin'
3. ???
4. Profit!
Titties & Beer are the new Bread & Circuses
New?
The classics never go away.
Sounds like these plastic surgeons should be put in charge of re-shaping the Greek economy,
Jokes aside... I know of a couple of middle-aged American-Greek women who go back to Greece 2x per year. To visit family, visit their doctors and dentists -- and get surgery if need be. All courtesy of the Greek taxpayers -- or what's left of them.
One of them came back last October, looking younger and better than two months earlier.
It's the 'Broken Window' economic benefit concept, applied to Sagging Body Parts. "It's all good", no doubt. Certainly the doctors and the husbands would agree fervently.
I vaguely remember when I started reading ZH to learn more about finance. Glad that's over.
I see what you said there Good one
All ladies need plastic surgery- cut the credit card up
I bet the main procedure is rhinoplasty. Those Greeks do not look anymore like the Ancient Greeks, more like Armenoids.
What monotheistic theologians won't tell you, but biologists and geneticists will, is that the gene pool actually needs some "fresh blood" (fresh genes) in the clan/tribe, to keep it healthy. And to avoid group-linked diseases, or the 'tweaked' look of insular groups.
Decades long studies (from fromer Eastern Block) show that about 15% of children born, do not have the woman's husband as the child's father. Obviously this ratio varies from culture to culture, and the gene pool is less healthy and diverse in homogenized, closed-group cultures.
/ Clearly Mother Nature (Adultery 'good') and the alleged Bible and Koran writers and their celestial 'Bosses' (Adultery 'very bad') are at odds with each other. Anybody -- besides me -- pick up on this glaring fact? 'Oops'. I wonder who's right. /s
I suppose many EUROPEAN WOMEN are going to Greece to get fixed BECAUSE PRICES DROPPED.
Fake titties, fake money can't beat the real things...
Until they're pointing at the floor.
Hey baby, lift up your skirt and show me those titties.
Boob jobs are a basic human right for woman.
nuff said.
Ergo... "So are Bl_w jobs for men!"
And.."It's only Cheat'n when your giving em"
I hear ya!
Greek women are not exactly the pretiest in the world but I guess most procedures are liposuction because the Greek really have a sweet tooth. It would also say Greece is the cellulid capital of Europe.
Also, short legs but I guess that can't be fixed.
I am imagining all these greek girls making their assholes look like a decorated christmas tree.
I don't even want to know what they use for tinsel.
I wonder how many of these international cosmetic surgery patients are men. In the U.S:
"Men’s percentage of the total is not yet available for 2012, but in 2011, it was 13 percent for cosmetic surgical procedures and 9 percent for minimally invasive cosmetic procedures, or 9 percent overall, according to ASPS data."
http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/03/25/3305634/plastic-surgery-cosmetic-p...
Not mentioned in this article but available elsewhere is information on scrotal lift and reduction.
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/03/25/3305634/plastic-surgery-cosmetic-p...I once knew someone whose wife was a very successful and well known men's plastic surgeon in Beverly Hills. Her speciality? Penal implants.
Wait - she put people in prison?