Would you feel it reasonable to sue for cosmetic failures?

I think that if you have paid for cosmetic surgery -which isn't cheap - you should be able to sue if it goes wrong. It would be down to the judge to decide exactly how wrong it had gone.

You cannot compare fitting kitchens to medical procedures on bodies. As mumofmadboys said:

Surgeons nowadays talk a lot about possible side effects and risk of complications as medicine has become so litigation orientated.

Everything is so carefully explained and the risks pointed out so that there is no doubt, it does leave one wondering whether or not the risks may be emphasised in order to to make sure the patient understands fully.
If the surgery/procedure is not necessary then the patient can always decide to say No.

Doctors have a responsibility as well though. They should have been duty bound to say no to the likes of Pete Burns, it is criminal to do that to another person.

I think it’s terribly sad that women like supermodels feel the need to look eternally young. I saw Naomi Campbell on tv the other day; she was still looking beautiful but I just kept wondering how much Botox she’d had to look that way. Then again, I have to admit to wondering if a bit of Botox would make me look better in my soon to be taken passport photo, so I guess I’m as guilty as anyone.

I did as much research as was possible for a lay person, before I had my reconstruction surgery, following breast cancer. I found a good surgeon, met one of his previous patients, saw her... 'work' he'd done. All great.

The operation was successful. Then I had healing problems. 11 weeks of open wounds. I almost had to have more surgery but finally, the wounds healed. My scars are bad. The result is nothing like I'd hoped.

BUT, I have two boobs. I KNOW my surgeon did the best he could. And he'd continue and do as many follow-up surgeries as I want. As it is, I don't want more. There is more to life.

OK, I'm not a model and my boobs were never linked to my occupation. But nothing is guaranteed and the way one person responds to surgery can differ to that of another.

I didn't explain my original thoughts very well; if this lady sues and fails - which is perhaps quite likely as the risks are surely to have been explained - she will have had to go through the attendant publicity, press photos, and a great deal of unwanted attention given that she is feeling reclusive, and for no helpful end result. It sounds like a hiding to nothing for someone who has suffered quite a lot, and has also endured attempts to correct the bad reaction. What will money give to an already rich woman, when the price is likely to involve every kind of attention that she doesn't want?

Varian and Kandinsky LE doesn't look normal at all. At age 56 she should be looking a lot better than she does. Look at Fiona Bruce - 57, Susanna Reid - 50, Christy Turlington - 52, Christie Brinkly - 67 and Cindy Crawford - 55.

Brigitte Bardot, Sophia Lauren, both aged over 80 and Catherine Deneuve aged 77 all looked beautiful when they were in their 50s and 60s.

What is very sad is that she felt the need to have this treatment to help her keep her looks, rather than growing old beautifully.

These fiftysomething tv presenters and super models do not resemble average fiftysomething women. Take away the rather awful specs and Lind just looks like an ordinary fifty something woman, with a rounded face rather than the high cheekbones and slim chin she previously had. I'm sure that there are many middle aged women who would be quite happy to look the way she does now.

She is obviously depressed that the treatment did not give the results she wanted, that in itself has aged her. Instead of looking bright eyed and confident, that haircut, awful glasses and sad expression makes her look very average.

Maybe deliberately to back up her claim.

Exactly varian

I read that this method is not done by doctors neither does it have to be. It is not monitored as it is non invasive. The article also said that many plastic surgeons won't do it because it is not known why sometimes it works and other times has the opposite effect. That alone would stop me having it done- not that I would want to. The most I have done beauty wise is having my hair dyed.

Maybe it's time she used her brain rather than her looks?

If all the risks are explained and the medic carries out a procedure according to all established methods then it's like everything in life sometimes things don't work out how you'd hoped.

Having had, in my thirties.a'nose job' I cant'say I was impressed with the result. It was certainly an improvement. What I was expecting still cannot answer that one but felt more confident and not as previous that every one I met looked at my nose now looked at me the person.

I think Katie59 has a point. Deliberately made to look plain in that photo, as we all would in close up hair scruffed back,, unflattering glasses. Glowering look. A ploy to get more money or she really doesn’t care what she looks like? This was no paparazzi snap. This is going for broke

And Micheal Jackson.

As someone who has a lot of aesthetic surgeries, your research is key and you sign a consent form which spells it out quite succinctly. I can’t ever remember signing a consent for for a kitchen or a simple task as putting up a hook. What a ridiculous comparison! ??

I find it really difficult to be sympathetic towards anyone who has cosmetic surgery. I just don’t understand how people subject themselves to mutilation in the name of vanity. All medical procedures carry a risk and I would be nervous about having one for health reasons, never mind cosmetic. She doesn’t look disfigured to me in the pictures, she still looks a lot better than I do! I appreciate she made her money from looking good, but maybe she could find something a bit more worthwhile to do.

I think she is right to sue them if the professional opinion is that the treatment has damaged her appearance.

It is important that these matters are addressed because it is a warning to others who may consider such treatments that cosmetic procedures don't always work out - and a warning to these clinics that they may be financially liable and reputationally damaged if they are found to be negligent.

I thought she looked like pleasant middle-aged woman - didn’t realise who she was - but that face was definitely not one to warrant shock or horror.
Yesterday on tv saw the face of a child who had been attacked by a hyena.
Operations carry risks that, if you are vain enough to opt for non-essential surgery, you presumably are prepared accept.

Guess where my sympathies lie.

Wouldn’t we all like to look the way we did when younger. I think it’s a shame when people can’t accept going old. Young people have plastic surgery it’s second nature too them.
It’s not right when the risk of a procedure is played down. The companies just want the business it’s unscrupulous and they should pay compensation.

I ve now looked at the photo and can’t see what she’s talking about how does she class that as being deformed perhaps she needs to do a bit of voluntary work with people who have real facial deformities, silly, conceited woman

I agree with Buttonjugs, Coco51 and BlueBelle.
Why are so many women obsessed with wanting to look young as they get older. Why can't they simply accept that ageing is a natural part of life and be thankful that they have their health and are still alive. If she was a beautiful woman in her youth she will most probably still be beautiful in her senior years, without surgical intervention. The cosmetic procedures she had undoubtedly cost thousands, just think what that money could have done for a child who was truly disfigured. I have always thought that a person's real beauty is on the inside not their outer packaging.

Callistemon I didn’t mean to make it sound like follow-up liposuction was an acceptable solution, I understand Linda Evangelista has had 2 follow-up procedures that haven’t helped.

I mentioned it because I felt it would mislead people into thinking any problems could be easily dealt with.

If I had her money I would get better surgery to put it right. If she was made aware this non-invasive treatment could go wrong and she signed to say she’d read it then she might get no where in court.