I used to say I would never get plastic surgery. I still can't really imagine ever doing it, but I have to say that a certain friend of mine who recently had a tres subtle lift and slight upgrade in size looks pretty damn good. After two babies and six years of breastfeeding, she felt that her breasts needed a little gravity-defying assistance and she fearlessly went under the knife.

She's really happy with how she looks, and I was impressed. Then she lifted her shirt and showed me her scars.

EEEEK!

I had already seen pix of Tara Reid's infamous and accidental boob job scar reveal. It was quite frightening, but I guess I figured that an aging movie starlet's red carpet scars would somehow be worse than a real person's boob job scars.

Wrong.

My friend's scars are just as definitive.

So I asked her whether it bothers her that while her breasts look quite nice fully clothed, they are now not nearly so nice looking unclothed and she said it didn't bother her at all - that she figures that as she gets older (she's in her early 40s) her breasts are less and less likely to be seen au naturel and more likely to be admired avec blouson.

This strikes me as an odd assumption, but whatever.

Anyway, anyone considering having this suregry really should first take an up-close look at some real person's real postsurgical scars. Then decide.