GMommy™ Makeover

Who a GMommy Makeover Is For

GMommy is short for grandmommy. A GMommy makeover is a set of modifications of the traditional mommy makeover, built for mature women rather than for the body that has just finished childbearing. Women are living longer, and a larger share of patients are grandmothers who still want their appearance to match how they feel. The traditional mommy makeover does not always cover what decades of aging have done. That gap is why the GMommy makeover exists.

These patients are usually clear that they will not look as they did in their 30s. They want to look right in clothes and in a swimsuit, and they want the face to read about 10 to 15 years fresher. That 10 to 15 years is the goal they bring, not a promise that every face drops a fixed number of years. Women in their 60s and into their 70s are the group asking for this. The operations are still excisions. They are sized to redundant skin, not to a younger template.

Two forces produce the skin a GMommy makeover is built to treat. One is decades of ultraviolet light. The other is gravity. Both leave redundant skin and a texture that a standard mommy makeover, aimed at pregnancy changes, does not take as its main problem. Recovery follows how many of those areas are excised in one plan. It is not a single timetable copied from a younger mommy makeover, because the incisions are the ones the aged skin actually needs.

What Years of Sun Do to the Skin

Decades of sun are accumulated ultraviolet damage. That light wrinkles the skin and changes its texture. Ultraviolet light also lets skin cells make vitamin D, which helps absorb calcium for muscle and bone. The damage and that benefit are not the same exposure. Prolonged ultraviolet radiation thins the deeper layer of skin, the dermis. Thin dermis is the crepe surface people call grandma skin. Texture worsens. Chronic ultraviolet injury is also tied to skin cancers. A tuck on this plan is not a cancer operation. It is the excision used when wrinkles and texture are extensive or severe enough that the skin itself has to come off.

Creams do not excise a dermis that has already thinned into crepe. When the texture change is mild, excision is not the first tool. When it is extensive or severe, skin excision, a tuck, is a mainstay of a GMommy makeover. That is the sun half of the plan. It is judged on the face, the neck, the arms, and anywhere else the crepe is the problem, not from a package that always includes the same list.

What Gravity Does After That

Gravity pulls on skin for decades. The skin stretches, then it hangs. The hangs this plan names are a turkey gobbler neck, a drooping face, bat-wing arms, and laxity around the abdomen and the thighs. Stretch plus loss of elastin becomes skin redundancy, and that redundancy can be extensive. Those are excision problems. A tuck removes the skin that has already fallen. It does not tighten elastin that is gone.

Liposuction can thin fat under a skin envelope that still fits. It does not remove a turkey gobbler, a bat wing, or a thigh that has dropped. On a GMommy makeover the mainstay is the tuck, because the finding is redundant skin from sun and gravity, not a fat pocket in young skin. Suction under skin that must be excised leaves the hang and a thinner layer inside it.

The Operations Are Chosen by Area

A GMommy makeover is not one incision. The areas it was built to treat are the face and neck, the upper eyelids, the lower eyelids, the eyebrows, the lips, the arms, the breasts, the tummy, the buttock, the lateral thighs, and the medial thighs. Each patient has a different set. The consultation is where that set is chosen. A woman whose complaint is the neck and the arms does not need a breast operation added so the plan can be called complete.

The named operations, in the order this plan lists them, are a GMommy face and neck lift, a GMommy upper blepharoplasty (eye lift), a GMommy lower blepharoplasty (eye lift), a GMommy brow lift, a GMommy lip lift, a GMommy arm lift, a GMommy breast lift, a GMommy tummy tuck, a GMommy BBL, a GMommy bra lift, a GMommy lateral thigh tuck, and a GMommy medial thigh tuck. They share one reason for being on the list: skin that sun and gravity have made redundant or crepey. They are not all performed every time. The breast, the abdomen, and the buttock are included when those areas are the ones that hang. The face and the eyelids are included when the 10-to-15-year facial goal is the request. The arm lift is the tuck for the bat wing. A bra lift stays on the list under that name.

The American Society of Plastic Surgeons describes a mommy makeover as a combination of procedures, often a tummy tuck with breast surgery, to address pregnancy changes. A GMommy makeover keeps the idea of a combination and changes the target. The combination is whichever excisions match sun-thinned, gravity-dropped skin. A tummy tuck is on the list when the abdomen is lax. It is not required to make the plan real. The same is true of the breast and of fat grafting to the buttock. Liposuction remains the tool for fat, not the substitute for those tucks.

What Patients Actually Had Done

Three notes on this plan name a single area, which is how the list is supposed to be used. One patient wrote: "I had an amazing experience with SurgiScuplt and his staff. The results of my arm lift are AMAZING and he and his staff have been extremely kind and professional throughout every step of this process. I would 100% recommend him to anyone looking for a surgeon!" Another wrote: "Amazing experience with SurgiScuplt and his staff. I have worked extensively with this staff and couldn't be happier with the experience. I had a brachioplasty and love my results! I would 100% recommend this Doctor to everyone else!" Brachioplasty is the arm lift, the tuck for the bat wing. Neither note describes a breast operation or a tummy tuck.

A third patient wrote: "I had a great experience at the Cosmetic Surgery Institute. I wanted to look a little younger and fresher for my daughters wedding day, so I booked an appointment not quite sure what I needed. SurgiScuplt was wonderful he suggested a couple of procedures that I had not even thought of and were amazing. He plumped up my cheekbones and took away some of my crows feet. I think I looked 10 years younger almost immediately." That note is the facial goal, cheek and crow's feet, close to the 10 to 15 years patients ask about. It is one person's account of her face. It is not a result that every GMommy makeover produces, and it is not an arm lift.

The standing exam is where crepe from sun is separated from hang from gravity, and where the list is cut down to the areas that show it. A neck with a gobbler is a face and neck lift. An arm with a bat wing is an arm lift. A lax abdomen is a tummy tuck. A medial thigh that has dropped is a medial thigh tuck. Adding the rest of the menu because it is printed next to those names is how a GMommy makeover turns back into a package the patient did not ask for. The fee follows only the operations left on that shortened list, not a preset mommy makeover price. The exam is done standing, in daylight, at the offices that see these patients.