was a 2008 facelift<\/a> for his mother, who died seven years ago, he said. He also shortened her earlobes.<\/p>\n\u201cMy mom always used to tell me I was going to grow up to be a plastic surgeon. I\u2019m sure she had designs on me giving her a facelift,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Nothing was more \u201cawkward\u201d than when he performed a breast augmentation on his sister Pam, who works as his office manager. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt was just the strangest thing ever,\u201d Berlet recalled.<\/p>\n
Pam was inspired to ask her brother to operate after seeing the results of his work on so many of his patients, many of them repeat customers, she said.<\/p>\n
She didn\u2019t feel the least bit uncomfortable, she insisted.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s more like an art project \u2026 because he sees beauty in everything and if he sees a way to improve something, then he\u2019s all for it,\u201d Pam explained.<\/p>\n
Operating on relatives is \u201ca little edgier\u201d than on strangers, but it felt natural, said Berlet, who graduated from Rutgers Medical School.<\/p>\n
He even gave his wife Kerry a facelift. Courtesy of Dr. Anthony Berlet<\/p>\n
The doctor said he\u2019s always taken an interest in his siblings\u2019 appearances and would even style them when they were kids.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would cut their hair growing up,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The doctor declined to reveal if he charged his family members for the procedures. <\/p>\n
The one loved one he was most afraid to work on was Kerry, his wife of eight years.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy wife is very vain about her appearance \u2026 She\u2019s attractive, and she wanted to keep that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Berlet performed the surgery on his wife without anesthesia, and she was awake for the entire procedure, numbed with Valium, she said. <\/p>\n
Kerry insisted her husband do the surgery, he said.<\/p>\n
He even did some eye work on his brother, Matthew Berlet, who said the procedure improved his self-esteem. Courtesy of Dr. Anthony Berlet<\/p>\n
\u201cShe gave\u00a0me\u00a0no decision. It was like, \u2018All right, you\u2019re doing my face, you know, it\u2019s time.\u2019 She put herself on the schedule,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The statistics teacher at Columbia\u2019s Teachers College got a deep clean facelift from her hubby, along with a lateral brow lift and lip lift earlier this year.<\/p>\n
She wasn\u2019t afraid at all of having a close family member operate on her.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s full trust, I had no fear,\u201d she said, \u201cI\u2019ve had so many friends that have, like, done surgery with my husband and, like, models, and actors, very attractive people, like, I was not worried.\u201d<\/p>\n
He even reset his then-12-year-old stepdaughter\u2019s nose after she broke it in an errant bounce on the family\u2019s trampoline.<\/p>\n
Dr. Anthony Berlet said his wife Kerry insisted he work on her. Courtesy of Dr. Anthony Berlet<\/p>\n
\u201cI was so mad, she\u2019s gorgeous, you know, and her nose was crooked. And I\u2019m like, thank God. I\u2019m married to a plastic surgeon,\u201d Kerry said. <\/p>\n
Berlet\u2019s twin brother Matt, who is a brain surgeon, had his brother remove wrinkles from his eyes and said he loved the results.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe eyes are a real focal point. If you can get that fixed, it can really change your overall appearance and when you look in the mirror, you feel a lot better about yourself, it makes the day start off easier,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
Berlet operated on his brother\u2019s daughter a decade ago, when she was 20, to remove an old surgery scar and perform liposuction. Berlet even gave his brother\u2019s girlfriend Botox and performed a procedure to stop her sweating from her armpits, he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy brother is extremely generous, and he\u2019s established trust, I mean, you trust blood right?\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
The American Medical Association has long cautioned doctors against treating family members, <\/p>\n
\u201cIn general, it\u2019s bad to work on family members,\u201d New York University Medical Ethics Professor Arthur Caplan told The Post.<\/p>\n
\u201cYour objectivity gets compromised. It\u2019s hard for the emotions when you\u2019re related to them to objectively treat them, it\u2019s much better to not do that, to not get involved with your relatives and close friends.\u201d<\/p>\n
Berlet\u2019s twin disagreed.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think plastic surgery is different. It\u2019s a different kettle of fish compared to, you know, let\u2019s say if I were fixing the brain aneurysm, I might have a hard time doing it in my brother,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"He cuts close to home. Dr. Anthony Berlet has turned his plastic surgery practice into a family affair,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":801542,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,326413,5248,401,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,9229,65493,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-801541","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-breast-implants","10":"tag-metro","11":"tag-new-jersey","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkcity","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-plastic-surgery","19":"tag-surgeries","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-us-news","26":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116586641248962345","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=801541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/801542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}