The male boob job - but lower....

It’s called body contouring which is fancy language for a procedure that sucks the fat out from between the muscles of the abdomen creating a sort of vacuum seal. Instant abs! Australian paparazzi king Darryn Lyons had the operation done and liked it so much he bought the company.

He was showing the results off on British television this week after he appeared as a guest on Celebrity Big Brother.

The Guardian reported:

“I had contouring done to my body,” paparazzo Lyons told My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding’s Paddy Doherty this week, taking off his shirt to reveal a set of washboard abs surrounded by, er, several pounds of flab. “Basically it’s the male version of a boob job,” said Lyons. “It’s the bees’ knees,” commented an impressed Doherty.

How might one replicate these bees’ knees? “That’ll cost you between £4,000 and £9,000,” says Marco Moraci, a cosmetic surgeon at the Harley medical group, who reckons Lyons underwent a procedure known as vaser liposuction.

The real question here, of course, is what it means for men and body image? The talk of the town has always been how women are made to feel insecure and inadequate when looking at film, television, ads and magazines. But those ridiculous 8-pack abs on male model front covers aren’t real either. They’re airbrushed to the horizon. Sometimes created from scratch.

So Darryn’s procedure here is kind of like the real-life equivalent of photoshopping the merchandise. But the results leave a little to be desired.

Others have mentioned in the past the certain type of schadenfreude felt when it becomes obvious men suffer the same types of body image crises as women, but is this really something to be chuffed about? Or is it something that should be observed with a small degree of concern for those who feel this is even necessary?

What do you think of the male boob job?