Why shouldn men benefit from liposuction too?
For as long as he could remember, Anthony Smith a nurse from the Midlands, had been unhappy with his appearance. He suffered from gynaecomastia or male breast enhancement, a condition suffered by nearly a third of men, which gives the chest a feminine appearance. But a few months ago, Anthony underwent corrective liposuction. Here he explains what persuaded him to have the operation. . . There’s a photograph that will always haunt me. I had just returned from holiday in Cyprus in 1997 with friends, and there I was in the picture, sitting in a bar, wearing a T-shirt that had shrunk in the wash. My chest looked terrible – all pointed and bulging, like a woman’s. I was so upset I ripped the photo up and threw it in the bin. But from then on, I resolved to find a cure. I wouldn’t call myself particularly vain but since becoming a teenager I was unhappy with the appearance of my upper body. My self-consciousness was such that I dreaded taking my shirt off in the summer, and even though I lo
