In the latest Funny or Die.com short, Heidi Montag speaks out about the horrors of having to pay for plastic surgery with a credit card.

The blond star of “The Hills” talks about some of her recent surgeries, Lauren Conrad, and most importantly, how you can contact your senator to push bank and credit card reform.

Did anyone see the phone number to call? I got distracted about 6 seconds in…

For the 5,200 people that gathered yesterday to be photographed in front of the Sydney Opera House, it must have been a very cold day in Australia.

For the sake of art and diversity, photographer/nude-ographer Spencer Tunick gathered an army of naked bodies to deliver the strong message to the world that Australians embrace a free and equal society.

[ From: Nerve.com ]

When Lydia Carranza fell victim to an office gunman last summer, salvation may have come from her size-D breast implant.

Beverly Hills plastic surgeon Dr. Ashkan Ghavami believes that without the implant to obstruct the blow from the bullet, Carranza would have died.

Carranza was working at a Simi Valley dental office July 1st when the disgruntled husband of one of her co-workers stormed in with a semiautomatic assault rifle, killing his wife and shooting Carranza in the chest.

“She’s just one lucky woman,” Dr. Ghavami told the LA Times. “I saw the CT scan. The bullet fragments were millimeters from her heart and her vital organs. Had she not had the implant, she might not be alive today.”

Dr. Ghavami will be performing Carranza’s breast reconstruction surgery at a reduced cost, but is hoping that implant companies will donate supplies.

Kris Carraway, spokeswoman for the hospital at which Carranza was treated, has said that Carranza’s emergency physician “was not aware of the breast implant having any impact of whether or not it saved her life.”

But Scott Reitz, an LAPD  firearms instructor told The Times that it was entirely possibly that the implant interrupted the velocity of the bullet.

“I don’t want to say a boob job is the equivalent of a bulletproof vest,” Reitz said. “So don’t go getting breast enhancements as a means to deflect a possible incoming bullet.”

Jaime Paredes, the alleged gunman, is awaiting trial without bail on charges for murder and premeditated attempted murder.

Every woman complains about their body from time to time. But for Jane Hughes-Wynn, a breast deformity was a serious concern that caused her years of discomfort, insecurity, and unhappiness.

Not only was one significantly larger than the other, Jane’s breasts were odd shaped, saggy and uncomfortable. All her life she avoided the everyday girly things such as sleep-overs and shopping trips, even something as normal as playing on a Wii.

When she met her husband Simon, it took her eight months before she felt comfortable enough to undress in front of him. In fact, it was the pictures from their wedding last March which spurred Jane to seek a medical solution.

“They looked saggy, and the left one was one-and-a-half cup sizes smaller. I couldn’t bear to look at them and was too ashamed to confide in anyone,” Jane said.

But her life was turned round when she was diagnosed with tubular breast deformity and discovered it was a treatable condition.

Last summer Jane found the solution to her problem when she was accepted onto the show Embarrassing Bodies, and received a breast implant surgery to become the proud owner of a pair of perfectly matching 34C’s.

“I wasn’t particularly happy with getting my boobs out on national television, but it was a means to an end,” she said. “I spent so long hating myself, but I couldn’t have carried on like that – I think this operation saved my life.”

Since the operation, Jane has become more relaxed and confident in her life and no longer faces the insecurities that have damaged her self-image since puberty.

“Being unhappy with your breasts can leave psychological scars,” agrees cosmetic surgeon Riccardo Frati. “It can destroy a woman’s confidence.”

“Five per cent of the women I treat have a medical problem, such as tubular breast deformity, which causes breasts to grow in a pointed shape,” he adds.“Problems like these can only be corrected with surgery.”

You can watch Jane’s story here or read more in the March print edition of Cosmopolitan.

[ From: www.WalesOnline.co.uk ]

We just took a first stab at a “system to recognize long time members” based on an extensive review of many of the comments left. Upon your premium membership subscription renewal we are factoring in your length of membership and awarding you 5 bonus free message credits for every year that you’ve been a member. So for example if you’ve been here from the start (2005), you’ll now receive 25 free credits (5 credits X 5 years = 25 credits) with every automatic renewal, along with your regular 5 paid credits. That’s 30 message credits each month!

Some of the veterans have some of the best advice for new girls, and so hopefully you can now pass along your wise words of advice and encouragement to new ladies at no additional cost to you.

You will need to have at least a C-Cup or DD-Cup membership level at the time of the auto-renewal in order to take advantage of this offer but it’s okay if you had a lapse in membership (or need to take a temporary break) as it’s based purely on when you originally created your account. We feel this method struck a balance between most of the concerns voiced for privacy of the reward since only you know how many credits you have, and only you know what subscription level you have.

We’re going to leave the feedback forum item open with a “started” status for a while in case anyone else has other ideas to contribute, as we view this as only 1 piece of the puzzle in recognizing the veterans here.

Ear cropping and tail docking have been standard “cosmetic procedures” among many dog breeds and types for ages. However, doggy boob jobs have not typically been popular in the cosmetic canine circle – until now. Two rescue dogs from a shelter in Stondon Massey, a village in south Essex, had breast lifts costing £1,200 in  efforts to find them a new home.

After years of overbreeding by unscrupulous owners, the two labradors were left with sagging folds of skin leaving their mammary glands all but dragging across the ground. A condition which, the staff at the Wallace Kennels said, was putting off potential owners. In a proactive effort to find the dogs a new home, the staff decided to beautify their bosoms.

Shelter coordinator Teresa Bartholomew said, “It is very unusual. You don’t get many people having cosmetic surgery on dogs and we could be one of the first. But, if we hadn’t had it done, we would not have been able to re-home them.”

Before the surgeries, the two dogs Emma and Morgan were passed over by potential adopters due to their unattractive “undercarriage,” as the staff described it.

Bartholomew added, “It didn’t look very nice and people just could not see past that – you could see it in their faces. It was definitely worth it because it meant the dogs were rehomed and there was a happy ending.”

Just weeks after the successful surgeries, Morgan and Emma were adopted and are now safe and happy with new owners in loving homes.

[ from: metro.co.uk ]

Employees at Providence St. Vincent Medical Center in Portland, Oregon put together this video to generate breast cancer awareness throughout their hospital system. Little did they know how popular the video would become, promoting breast cancer awareness not only within their hospital, but all over the country as well.

The hospital employees who participated in the video showed their support because they either work with breast cancer patients, or because they or someone they love is affected by breast cancer.

The medical center created the video after being contracted by Medline, a medical supply company that manufactures synthetic gloves in the color pink. Some of the money from the sale of the gloves helps pay for mammograms for women who can’t afford them.

…because, except for the offensively stereotypically gay men, all guys are drooling retards…

For the x-tra special bonus, E manages to groan-out:

“Must….. Buy….. Breast………. cancer!!!111!!!”

If you haven’t noticed it yet, we just added a really slick new Feedback widget to the website (you must be logged in to the community area to see it). This new little tool will give all of YOU much more power in determining the future of MFI, which is very exciting!!

We’ve always tried our best to listen to your comments, suggestions and feedback through the history of MFI. Even with our recently rolled out help-desk ticketing system, we have been capturing and logging your feedback and suggestions. But we feel this new feature will make that even easier now, and it will also let you all collaborate on ideas, as well as vote on them. Again, very exciting!

So how does it work?

Well, once you are logged into the site, from any page you can click on the little Feedback tab on the left side of the screen. It will display a nice little dialog window of current ideas. You can then either vote on ideas you like, or create a new idea and vote for that one. You can even vote multiple times for an idea if you REALLY like one. But, you only have 10 votes to use, so you have to prioritize! Once an idea has been implemented, you’ll get your votes back and you can use them on another idea. Or, if you change your mind you can move votes from one idea to another that you think is of more importance. You can also visit the feedback forum and post comments related to a particular idea.

As we gather new ideas and people vote on ideas they like, the great ideas will float to the top and we can start plucking them off the list to start adding them to MFI for you! This doesn’t mean that EVERYTHING you want will make it into MFI, as we still have to retain a little bit of control, but this will definitely let you communicate your thoughts to us (and others) for consideration.

We’ve gone ahead and pre-populated the list with about 20 requests that we’ve gathered in the past from multiple people, so you can start voting right away. Or, as I mentioned, if you don’t see your idea listed, go ahead and add it!

We look forward to seeing what’s on your mind!

“Communities are the easiest way to turn feedback into action.”

Thanks for providing your feedback and insight, and have a happy Thanksgiving!

Here’s yet another Save The Boobs video…

A wonderfully made commercial for Pink Ribbon Magazine, a 100% non-profit to raise money for the fight against breast cancer.