Breast work for 81-year-olds: Women over 60 are getting a ‘Grandma Makeover’ plastic surgery

Grandma is changing.

More mature women who previously shunned cosmetic procedures or limited them to facelifts and eye lifts are increasingly going under the knife and needle for dramatic full-body overhauls.

“We’ve been doing mommy changes for years, but cosmetic surgery is more generally accepted, so we’re seeing increased interest from an older population that used to just give up on their bodies,” said Dr. Paul Jarrod Frank, a cosmetic dermatologist with offices in the West Village and Upper East Side.

Dr. Lyle Leipziger, chief of plastic surgery at North Shore University Hospital and LIJ Medical Center, agrees, noting that he recently performed a breast reduction on an 81-year-old woman.

Now there is an increase in the number of women coming in for procedures later in life in their 50s, 60s, 70s including breast and tummy tucks, he said. Over the last two years I have seen an increase of 20%. This is an age group that came to me primarily for facelifts [before]but now they are doing everything for themselves.”

When Gina Nagel was recently divorced after 33 years of marriage, she decided it was time for a new life.

The 62-year-old, who owns an agricultural supply company, sold her home in New Jersey and decided to visit one of her sons and her 3-year-old granddaughter in Florida.

There was just one problem: She wasn’t comfortable with how she would look on the beach.

I wanted to go to the ocean and not be bored, Nagel told The Post. I’m more fun and spontaneous than when I was married, but the way I looked didn’t authentically represent who I am.

So, she went to Leipziger for a breast lift and tummy tuck. The recovery was pretty painless, she said she didn’t even take Tylenol and was thrilled with the results.

“I just went to the ocean for the first time in 40 years and if it wasn’t for the surgery, I would have missed that moment with my granddaughter,” she said. “I’ve never had a body that looked this good even in my 20s.”

For Lisa, a 63-year-old with a doctorate in international education and global politics, it wasn’t divorce that brought her to Dr. Anetta Reszko, a dermatologist on Park Avenue. She was seeing how youthful her 77-year-old friend Pam looked after running errands.

It was a game changer for him,” the Upper West Sider, who declined to give her last name for privacy reasons, told The Post. “I am thin, but what bothered me was the looseness of my arms and the stiffness of my legs… Dr. Reszko said he could get me into tank tops and above-the-knee skirts within a few months.

After injections of a diluted form of Radiesse filler ($1,100), which stimulates collagen, along with Morpheus ($2,200 per session; four sessions recommended), a microneedling machine that uses radio frequency, she has seen a drastic improvement.

“I used to have dimples on my legs and now they’re smooth and I don’t have to think about how to strategically cover the dimple,” said the mother of three and grandmother of one. It’s a massive change.

Brooklyn grandmother Olga Smirnoff wanted to feel more confident at her son’s wedding.

“I had put on weight after menopause, no matter what I did, I couldn’t control those changes and I didn’t want to take medication,” the 62-year-old told The Post.

She paid about $28.00 for “MicroLipo” a version of liposuction done under local anesthesia using tiny holes up close without stitches” and a skin tightening device called BodyTite. In the end, she felt fabulous with ” the comfortable purple “mermaid” dress she wore to the wedding. .

Dr. Darren Smith, a plastic surgeon in Park Avenue, has seen a 20 to 30% increase in patients 50 and older. He swears his abs can make a woman’s body look decades younger.

You wouldn’t be able to tell the belly of an older woman [after surgery] from someone in her 30s or 40s,” he said.

He is also now performing less invasive “mini brachioplasty” to reshape weak arms without the large scar of the traditional procedure.

Meanwhile, cosmetic dentists say they’re seeing an influx of more mature women who want to improve their smiles.

In previous decades, women in their 60s and 70s would be said to be too old to have braces on their teeth, but today that same group is outnumbering younger women in my practice, wanting younger-looking smiles with porcelain veneers, noted Manhattan’s leading cosmetic dentist Marc. Lowenberg, who has improved the smiles of Julianna Margulies, 58, and Kelly Ripa, 53.

Lana Rozenberg, who counts 67-year-old Kim Cattrall among her patients, reports a 40% increase in cosmetic work for those over 60.

I just made a complete change to an 86-year-old, she said. “When people get older, their lips droop and it can look like they don’t have teeth, so this really helps. Some women have said they are doing this as a retirement gift to themselves.