Inside
Out - Facelift Holidays
Inside
Out, Monday 9 February 2004, Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ ONE East Midlands, 7.30-8.00pm
Anne
Davies presents the popular features and current affairs show.
Facelift
Holidays
East
Midlands Airport in Nottingham is the gateway to many holiday
destinations.
A chance to get away from the pressures of work and come back rejuvenated.
But
increasing numbers of people are jetting off and coming back looking
younger too.
Inside
Out goes to Prague and Madrid to examine the bargain facelift holiday
and cheap cosmetic surgery.
There
are numerous adverts which read like glossy holiday brochures but
cheap isn't always the best.
There
aren't the same regulations in place and in some cases patients
don't even get to meet the surgeon who is going to operate on them
before the operation.
Inside
Out spent four months with a woman from Leicester who has
been hoping to transform her appearance; and the cheapest way to
do this is visit a clinic abroad.
Eileen
Alott
is an ordinary woman who lives on an ordinary estate in Leicester.
She
flew hundreds of miles to the glamorous capital of Spain for an
operation which she hoped would turn back time.
Eileen
says: "When I look in the mirror I see the face of a much older
woman. I've had a hard life and you can see it in my face."
So
what made 53-year-old Eileen leave her family and friends back in
the UK to endure what some might say is a risky and expensive procedure,
just for price of vanity?
Eileen
says: "The moment I realised something had to be done was when
I went to buy a train ticket and the cashier asked me if I had my
senior citizens' railcard."
Life
has been tough in recent years for Eileen. Nine years ago one of
her daughters was tragically killed in car crash. She's found it
hard to come to terms with and the signs of stress, she feels, can
be seen in her face.
But
moving on doesn't come cheap and, with a price tag of around Β£12,000,
she's prepared to go into debt for many years to pay it off. She's
also used her redundancy money.
Eileen
opted for a total facelift to remove all her excess skin; it's a
major operation which will last around six hours.
See
Eileen's story on Inside Out, and find out if the surgery was a
success.
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