America Is Having a Plastic Surgery and Botox Bonanza

The vaccines are coming — and everyone’s rushing to get lip injections

Zara Stone
Marker
Published in
5 min readJan 25, 2021

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Illustration: Rob Dobi

In June, Susie Sessoms got her first lip filler. In November, she tried Kybella, the “fat dissolving” double chin injectable. “I swelled up like a bullfrog,” she says. “It’s a good thing I didn’t have to go to work!” Like many office workers, Sessoms, a…

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Zara Stone
Marker

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