Six pack surgery more popular than ever among men, surgeons say

Genius cosmetic shortcut or ab-omination?You no longer need to do a million crunches — or get an ab tattoo — to score cheese-grater abs.Soggy-stomached US men are increasingly turning to a novel plastic surgery operation to help them develop six-packs sans having to do a single sit-up.“It is more like creating that six-pack and creating the ‘V lines,’ and giving somebody that more athletic, toned physique that traditional liposuction can’t really achieve,” Dr.

Josef Hadeed, MD, a board-certified plastic surgeon in California and Florida, told Fox News.He specializes in the “ab-etching” procedure known as high-definition liposuction, which essentially involves sculpting stomach muscles via surgery.The way it works is that surgeons remove fat from the “vertical” and “horizontal lines” above the belly button to “create the illusion of someone having a six-pack,” Hadeed explained of the literal 6-minute ab procedure.Sometimes fat is even relocated to other places to help create a bulkier, more filled-in abdominal aesthetic — like literal human sculpting.As the name suggests, high-definition lipo provides a degree of definition not offered by the traditional procedure, which removes fat and volume but doesn’t deal with the underlying “anatomy.”Patients have been over the moon about their insta-abs.

“I bought this belly,” Brazil’s Junior Carvalho, 52, who obtained this literal “cut” stomach operation in 2022 after hours of exercise failed to yield the desired results, told the Washington Post.“When I see people looking at me, the sensation is incredible.”Following the op, the divorcee was dating someone16 years his junior and was unafraid to walk down the beach shirtless.While the procedure has been a fixture in plastic surgery-obsessed Brazil for some time, there’s recently been an uptick of men in the US clamoring to cosmetically slow their rolls.“I’m definitely seeing an increase in high-definition liposuctio...