Althouse: "He maneuvered each rib with a drill, bending it until one side snapped in what’s called a greenstick fracture."

October 13, 2025

"He maneuvered each rib with a drill, bending it until one side snapped in what’s called a greenstick fracture."

"From there, he instructed the patient to strap into a corset for two months, until the ribs fused together in a new position. The result was a waistline reduction of nine centimeters, or three and a half inches."

From "Plastic Surgery Comes for the Waist/A drastic new procedure, which inflicts tiny fractures to the ribs, emerges at the forefront of body modification" (NYT).

26 comments:

Clyde said...: I read that sentence and just felt revulsion.; 10/13/25, 5:07 AM
Dave Begley said...: Would this work for Pritzker?; 10/13/25, 5:24 AM
Leland said...: How long before minors allowed to opt in and have it covered by insurance?; 10/13/25, 5:27 AM
Goldenpause said...: This is unlikely to end well.; 10/13/25, 5:55 AM
Mary Beth said...: She ticked them off: breast implants twice (one under the muscle, then a revision to move them over the muscle “because I wanted cleavage”), facial implants, eye color alteration,” she trailed off. Ms. Lasher is considering a Brazilian butt lift or maybe an inner thigh lift with Dr. Hadeed

Eye color alteration?; 10/13/25, 5:56 AM
Heartless Aztec said...: That sounds like a fun afternoon.; 10/13/25, 6:22 AM
Money Manger said...: "her greatest regret is that her parents did not have the courage to bind her feet when she was a very young girl..."; 10/13/25, 6:51 AM
RCOCEAN II said...: It might work on Pritzker if you could find a fork-lift.; 10/13/25, 6:59 AM
RCOCEAN II said...: The problem is that 6 months of good eating and she'll back to where she was.; 10/13/25, 7:01 AM
Peachy said...: Dems will make sure we all pay for it with our hiked taxes.; 10/13/25, 7:04 AM
RCOCEAN II said...: Its funny how some leftists claim beauty and sexual attractiveness is "cultural". But of course it isn't. 36-24-36 is pretty the standard norm of beauty throughout the world. Maybe the measurements are different, but hourglass ratio is the same. Just as broad shoulders and narrower hips and height are markers for male attractiveness.

They are feminine facial features that are attractive with everyone. Small nose, small chin, big eyes, high cheek bones.

Anyway, if women want to feel better by having plastic surgery go for it. Whatever makes you happy. Although, future husbands beware, your future daughter may not look like Mom.; 10/13/25, 7:07 AM
typingtalker said...: The term "butcher" comes to mind ...
https://youtu.be/ygfIj2tv9jY; 10/13/25, 7:07 AM
Peachy said...: My primary care doc - she has these framed drawings of women wearing corsets. Next to, is an image all off the internal organs that were restricted. next to that - a normal rib cage - where bodily organs like lungs, liver, kidney all that junk - allowed to live in freedom.; 10/13/25, 7:08 AM
Bob Boyd said...: I bet they tested this on dogs.; 10/13/25, 7:18 AM
rehajm said...: I didn't know this is new. I guess just removing the bottom
one or two was the old procedure. This seems relatively tame compared to slicing vertically by each ear to slide your face around on your skull; 10/13/25, 7:49 AM
The Vault Dweller said...: Reminds me of the height surgery some men get where they break their leg bones to get a few extra inches in height.; 10/13/25, 7:52 AM
Jersey Fled said...: Another sign that the end times are near.; 10/13/25, 7:56 AM
Howard said...: Exactly, Peachy. I was at the Isabella Stewart Gardener museum last Friday and there's this infamous portrait of her by John Singer Sargent where she's corseted up tight with a tiny waist, bodacious tatas and a bubble butt. The original Kim Kardashian.; 10/13/25, 7:58 AM
Jamie said...: rehajm @7:49, that's what I remembered too.

[shrug] As long as the patient is an adult, the patient provides uncoerced consent (eastern European pimps come to mind), and insurance isn't paying, I guess have at it.; 10/13/25, 8:00 AM
hanuman_prodigious_leaper said...: Would this work for Pritzker?
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you want to see in a dress?; 10/13/25, 8:16 AM
Bob Boyd said...: Pritzker's fat deposits were considered a shovel-ready job by the Obama Administration.; 10/13/25, 8:26 AM
WhoKnew said...: This just reinforces my prejudice that most plastic surgery is a violation of medical ethics (first do no harm). I have nothing against plastic surgeons who work with cleft palates and burn victims and similar issues, but if they only worked on necessary cases there would only be a couple of dozen employed. Butchers is indeed the correct description.; 10/13/25, 9:00 AM
Wince said...: Imagine the biblical implications if rib removal became integral to male-to-female transsexual surgery.; 10/13/25, 9:09 AM
IamDevo said...: Human depravity always seeks new avenues of expression. Surgery has provided such an avenue. Off with your testicles and breasts, implant enhancements into those that are left. Something for everyone, a comedy tonight.; 10/13/25, 9:12 AM
Aggie said...: Ugh, what women will do to impress other women. When a guy feels bad about himself, he goes to Lowes and buys a new drill.; 10/13/25, 9:35 AM
Biff said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 10/13/25, 10:31 AM