Teen idol Hilary Duff insists she would consider having cosmetic surgery in later life, because she always wants to feel good about her body.

While she is not as keen on younger models and actresses having treatment, she does think that its OK for older women.

How nice of her.

We suspected it all along, right ? Supermodel turned supermum and glamorous face of numerous skin creams, Cindy Crawford, has admitted that she has used Botox to keep her famous looks as fresh and young as possible.

Cheating ? Well the only people who have been cheated it would seem are those who have forked out on Cindy's creams thinking THAT was her secret..

More than 12 million adults and one million children will be obese by 2010, according to new figures.

This is obviously a major opportunity for the obesity surgery companies, like Transform and The Hospital Group, particularly as obesity already costs the heath service £1 billion a year.

There's an indepth report on the growing importance of Bangkok as a centre of "gender reassignment".

With procedures now costing around $7,500 a pop, its a growing economy, and one doctor there claims that "Thailand is the most popular destination for cosmetic surgery because one, it's cheap, and two, our hospitals are better than most hospitals overseas,"

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ABC News has an unusual story this week about hymen restoration. This is a procedure evidently that allows girls to have their ahem "honour" restored, where surgeons repair the thin membrane, either by stitching the frayed ends together or by adding a patch of tissue from the vaginal walls.

Good as new.

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Up to 50 per cent of middle-aged women are likely to have cosmetic surgery to help delay the visible aging process, according to a survey in Top Sante Magazine.

The Top Sante survey found that women over the age of 40 are so unhappy with their body that they give themselves an average rating of 3.5 out of ten and many are prepared to undergo surgical procedures to improve their self-esteem.

Just over a tenth of the respondents had already had surgery; 14 per cent claimed they would "definitely" undergo a procedure and an additional 25 per cent said that they "probably" would.