Money News: Surgeons and scalpels
❚ The Hills actress Heidi Montag became famously obsessed with cosmetic surgery in 2009, undergoing everything from a neck liposuction to a buttock augmentation worth £19k.
❚ Janice Dickenson was once labelled as ‘the first supermodel’ but that all went to pot after she got cosmetically tweaked to the tune of £130,000.
❚ Jocelyn Wildenstein, a wealthy socialite, blew nearly £2m on surgery that helped her achieve nothing more than notoriety for looking like a cat caught in a wind tunnel.
❚ Puffy-faced Pete Burns, frontman of 80s band Dead Or Alive, has had the whole gamut of procedures, including scores of Botox injections at £400 a pop.
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How You Spend It!
Maria Pavlides, 25
Job Secondary school teacher
From London
Lives Barnet
How do you budget?
A lump of my salary goes into my savings account every month and the rest is for spending and travel. I try not to dip into my savings too often because I’m desperately trying to save for a house deposit.
Any money-saving tips?
Keep an eye out at Boots for when there is a deal on your favourite toiletries and stock up like it’s harvest time. Also, put your savings in high-interest accounts and make free money if you can.
Last big blow-out?
A trip to New York in May. I went for less than a week and spent more than I did on a two-week trip to Greece in August!
What non-essential items do you spend money on?
Alcohol and Bobbi Brown make-up.
