Izzy was tired of seeing Anaya tired.
The skin over his lidded eyelids had begun to sag and wrinkle. She was constantly tired and looked much older than her 43 years.
The Manhattan mom of two tried to combat the droop, getting regular Botox and filler injections in her forehead. She hoped the popular toxin would lift her brow line and tighten the skin. But the treatment just wasn’t doing the trick.
So, late last year, she called a cosmetic surgeon, asked for more than $10,000, and asked them to fix the problem — once and for all.
“I had a blepharoplasty, and I feel like I lost 10 years off my face just by removing this little piece of skin over my eyes,” Anaya, a stay-at-home mom and lifestyle content creator, told The Post of the Buzzy Surgery. .
Blepharoplasty, a new viral anti-aging operation, is a facial rejuvenation procedure through which specialists remove excess skin and fat that can develop both above and below the eyelids as a person ages.
A-listers such as supermodel Gisele Bundchen, 42, and Golden Globe winners Matt Damon, 52, and Jennifer Coolidge, 61, are rumored to have passed.
About an hour after going under the knife, Anaya’s doctor, Jordan Turner of Manhattan Plastic Surgery on the Upper East Side, sent her home with Tylenol and a recommendation for 48 hours of bed rest, during which she experienced minimal pain.
“It was a 20-minute process, and it got rid of all my wrinkles. It lifted my face without giving me a facelift,” said Anaya, adding that she no longer has to wear eye makeup. “Nice.”
In 2020, blepharoplasty, also known as “bluff” or “eyelid surgery,” ranked as one of the top five cosmetic procedures in the US, according to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons.
The site also listed the surgery as the most popular nip/tux among patients 45 and older in the 2022 report.
A separate April 2022 study by global health care business consulting firm Maximize Market Research found that the market popularity of blepharoplasty is expected to grow from its current national value of $4.3 million to $7.9 million by 2029.
And on TikTok, a hashtag of her name has received more than 377.1 million views from people considering the cut — which has become increasingly popular among both women and men since the pandemic.
“Since then, interest in surgery has increased because people were wearing masks [over their mouths and noses]which draws more attention to the eye area,” said Eleanor Kim, an oculoplastic surgeon at the NYU Langone Eye Center.
“People were also on Zoom and using virtual meeting spaces,” she added, “so they were often looking at themselves and wanting blepharoplasty to rejuvenate the skin.”
But the benefits of surgery aren’t strictly vanity.
Kim tells The Post that removing excess flesh around the eyes can protect people with hooded eyes from peripheral vision loss due to overhang. In cases where the droopy eyelid causes significant visual obstruction, the cost of the surgery is usually covered by insurance.
And although the surgery comes with some risks — such as chronic dry eye and partial blindness — Kim said it’s a “tried and true” operation with plenty of benefits.
For Paul Connell, clear vision came as a bonus to his October 2022 blepharoplasty with Mark Carolak, a plastic surgeon in Wall Township, New Jersey.
“I can see better without the heavy turtle shell over my eyes,” laughed Connell, 48, of Edgewater, New Jersey. He chose not to disclose how much he paid for the procedure.
As an electrical contractor and recurring guest star on “The Real Housewives of New Jersey,” boyfriend of 52-year-old Dolores Catania, Connell underwent a procedure to reduce the strain on his eyes.
“Whether I was sleeping, driving or watching TV, my eyes always felt heavy, and they looked really puffy,” he said.
“But when I had the surgery it was like a weight was lifted off my face,” Connell continued, adding that the operation also boosted his confidence both on and off-camera. “I look younger, which I appreciate now that I’m over 40.”
And Barak Rotem, 48, who traveled from Texas to Tijuana, Mexico for blepharoplasty on both his upper and lower eyelids in 2020, agreed that the surgeries, which combined cost him more than $4,000, gave him a fresh face. Helped to maintain. .
“I don’t want to age naturally,” Rotem, a Houston interior designer and fitness trainer, told The Post. “When people see me [now]They think I am 35 years old. Everyone should do this.
And for the haters who might argue that eyelid replacement surgery is a superficial waste of time and money, Anaya said, “Don’t be crazy just because you can’t afford it.”
“If you had the cash, you’d get a blepharoplasty too.”
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