This is one of my best friends in the world. Her name is Cynthia. I call her Cyn.
She graduated college in East Tennessee just like me but chose to go to Los Angelus to pursue her dreams. She’s smart, she’s talented, and she’s driven. Did I mention she also has a “pretty face”?
She works for a…how shall I put it…“higher profile” family in LA. (Higher profile=could buy my life and still have enough money to fly to Monte Carlo for the weekend.) Her boss recently encouraged her to get lap band surgery.
So I get it…California is a little bit different than the good ole south. The industry is surface driven. I understand. I’ve been fighting those things since I started auditioning at age 7. My first question is, when did a size large become big enough to need bariatric surgery? Get real. And her boss said it would be great to get it just to lose 40 pounds or so. Next, why pay an average cost of $20,000 to lose that amount of weight. Couldn’t you just hire a trainer and not alter your body to the extreme of surgically modifying the size of your stomach?
Lately Cyn and I have been talking a lot about bariatric surgery so today I began to research it. I found out what it does, how much it costs, where you can get it…I’m pretty much a walking journal of bariatric goodness. Ready to know what the bottom line is? The secret to the million dollar business of bariatric surgery;
If you follow a diet…you will lose weight.
I’m going to pause here to give you a day or so to let that sink in. More to come soon on the reality of bariatric surgery.
