70-Year-Old Woman Gets 8 Surgeries in One Go – To Heal More Than Just Her Body

A 70-year-old woman has opened up about why she chose to under­go eight plas­tic surg­eries at once — a deci­sion she says was part of a much deep­er spir­i­tu­al and emo­tion­al trans­for­ma­tion.

Sus­sane, a long­time real estate bro­ker and moth­er of two, began her jour­ney at age 68. She adopt­ed a plant-based diet, hired a per­son­al train­er, and ulti­mate­ly lost more than 100 pounds.

“It was almost 30 years that I had not tak­en care of my body,” she admit­ted. Before that, she says, she had fall­en into “real­ly deep depres­sion” and lived a seden­tary lifestyle “for a num­ber of decades.” Her trans­for­ma­tion, she explains, was about thank­ing her body and cel­e­brat­ing it for “not giv­ing up” on her.

Dur­ing this process, she dis­cov­ered Dr. Carl Trues­dale — a Cal­i­for­nia-based plas­tic sur­geon and founder of Arti­sa Skin­care, known for dra­mat­ic trans­for­ma­tions and a mas­sive social-media pres­ence.

“There’s got to be some­thing to this,” Sus­sane remem­bers think­ing. Plas­tic surgery had nev­er crossed her mind before; her phys­i­cal appear­ance wasn’t a moti­vat­ing fac­tor in her well­ness jour­ney. But some­thing shift­ed. She felt drawn to the idea and decid­ed to fol­low that instinct.

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“I’m think­ing, ‘Oh, how is this all going to hap­pen?’ But I said, ‘Yes.’ I put it out in the uni­verse because once you speak your word, it’s not any of my busi­ness how it unfolds… I just kept mov­ing for­ward,” she said.

Iron­i­cal­ly, she almost didn’t choose Dr. Trues­dale: he wasn’t avail­able on her pre­ferred dates. But what was sup­posed to be his vaca­tion sud­den­ly shift­ed, and he end­ed up being in town — a coin­ci­dence that made every­thing fall per­fect­ly into place.

With that, Sus­sane com­mit­ted to eight pro­ce­dures in a sin­gle ses­sion. She under­went a deep plane facelift, neck lift, lip lift, upper ble­pharo­plas­ty, fat trans­fer from her inner thighs to her hands and face, an eye­brow lift, low­er ble­pharo­plas­ty, and a laser treat­ment.

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The oper­a­tion last­ed eight hours, fol­lowed by 90-minute oxy­gen treat­ments for three days.

For ref­er­ence, she gave Dr. Trues­dale a pho­to of her­self at age 28. In her words, he man­aged to cap­ture “who I was at that time.” But she insists the goal wasn’t to go back in time: “Was I try­ing to get back there? It wasn’t like, ‘Oh, I have to be that age again.’ I real­ly love who I am.”

Today, she sees — and feels — a mas­sive dif­fer­ence. Her inner and out­er glow-ups, she says, have evolved togeth­er.

“I’ve always been very con­fi­dent, but I love what I see now,” she told Peo­ple.