When Demi Moore showed up to the New York premiere of in January appearing to have aged in reverse, it wasn’t her five-step nighttime skin-care regimen that lit up TikTok. It was praise for whatever doctor may have been behind her youthful glow-up. “It’s not me, but part of me wishes that it was,” joked Dr.
Anthony Youn ( ), a Detroit-based plastic surgeon who speculated to his 8.4 million TikTok followers and 1.3 million Instagram followers that Moore had had numerous procedures.
Another TikToker, Dr. Jonny Betteridge ( ), gushed about Moore in another speculative video with 2.8 million views, “Surgery when done in a skillful and artistic way can transform someone’s appearance and still keep them looking natural.
” These doctors didn’t know with certainty that Moore had gone under the knife, but they were joining a chorus of people who have scrutinized the actress during her 40-year career. The only difference is that this time the attention wasn’t coming from a tabloid your mom might pick up while in line at the supermarket. The rise of TikTok and Instagram Reels has brought discussion about plastic surgery to the social media stage.
And the people doing the speculating are often some of the most qualified to weigh in: the Botox injectors and scalpel-wielding surgeons themselves. Take Betteridge, a U.K.
-based doctor who in 2022 specializing in nonsurgical treatments like fillers. In January, he published a video where he speculated that Brad Pitt had had wo.