Celebrity plastic surgeon Jason Diamond set up shop in Dubai and was surprised by his clientele:
It could seem counterintuitive for these women to invest so much in their appearances given that they are covered most of the day. Diamond explained, “It took me a while to figure out, but in the Middle East many men are allowed to have four wives. The women want to be feminine and beautiful for their men. That is their only job. They are not out working. There’s no women’s lib. There’s none of that stuff. Their job is to look good for their men and that’s all they care about.”
“It’s my opinion,” Diamond added, “and I’m as a big an authority on this as anyone in the world, that they care more about their appearance than Beverly Hills’ women.”
Even though these women are very invested in looking good for their husbands, the men are uninvolved when it comes to the actual surgeries their wives undergo. On occasion women have a mother or sister with them, but more often than not, these women show up alone. “I would say I see more often here [in Beverly Hills] men coming in with their wives saying, ‘She needs to do this, or I really wish her breasts were bigger or smaller,'” said Mani. “The women are very self-directed there; they’re very empowered over their own bodies and know what they want. Men are not driving their wives to have plastic surgery.”
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