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Ozempic slimming can make skin sag. Enter the $20K 'body lift.'

By The Wall Street Journal  
   February 10, 2025

Those who lose weight on Ozempic often find success has left them with sagging skin—a common side effect that is driving a boom in cosmetic surgery. Plastic surgeons say they have long had patients who wanted taut skin after bariatric surgery, an operation modifying the stomach. But the weight-loss drugs have prompted a surge in demand for such body-lift procedures, especially from younger patients. Some doctors call what they are doing a 360-degree body lift, which comprises multiple areas of skin tightening around the abdomen, hips, buttocks, lower back and even breasts and arms.

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