How Much Would You Pay to Get Rid of Cellulite?

Whatever it is, it's not enough, though Aina Hunter thought $1200 sounded about right, to rid herself of the lumps and bumps around her "waist and thighs. Plus that area just above my knee caps which has grown increasingly hateful over the past couple of years." She reports as to the treatment's efficacy in Cellulite Treatments: Do They Work?, not the sexiest title and, sadly, not the outcome we of dimpled thigh and ass would hope for, though I could have forecast that, for if a treatment of slathering, super-heating, and massaging eradicated cellulite, I would have years ago ponied up the twelve hundred smackeroos.

Did Hunter have fun while she still had hope? Not really.

I wanted the treatments to work. I felt that they should work. They were uncomfortable enough. To be fair, [masseuse] Iriana asked me several times if she was pressing too hard. I shook my head no as she dug her little hands into my screaming flesh. I covered my face with a pillow and bit into it. I wanted results, not coddling...

Expect cellulite treatment involving tissue manipulation — be it Endermologie, Vela Smooth, Syneron or some combination — to make you feel like the victim in a pre-code, post-mod Hollywood cult film. You will lie on a slab under fluorescent light in paper underwear and accept your expensive punishment. A few days later you'll return for more.

Hunter's results? "Negligible." But I did learn something interesting, which is that whether you develop cellulite is determined by the thickness of your dermis (your inner layer of skin) and, as Hunter writes, "the pattern of the connective tissue beneath it which holds your fat cells together that matters."

If you are lucky enough to have a sort of cross-hatch pattern, your fat cells are held in with double reinforcements. Regrettably, this pattern is most often seen in men. Most women have connective tissue patterned like columns... It's easier for fat cells to bulge out of columns than small openings.

I don't know about that "regrettably"; I see enough cellulite on myself so don't need to see it on my husband, thanks. Also, I cannot be the only one who's noticed that women who are slim through the hips do not tend to get cellulite. My daughter is this way, as are nearly all the women in her father's tribe. It's us curvy gals who develop it, even when we're thin. I personally like my waist and boobs, and thus, and especially when checking out Sophia, see a little orange peel as an okay trade.

Comments

[Jacq]

I have a wee bit of cellulite on the tops of my thighs, but really don't spare it too much thought. Anybody seeing me in a sufficient state of undress to display it is pretty lucky, as far as I'm concerned, and should be focusing on better things than that! And at it's only visible from the back it's not like I have to look at it every day ...!

[Hillary Johnson]

I think we have mistakenly equated cellulite with "being fat," when it is not at all about how much fat you have on your body. I've noticed in myself that there's a weight below which it actually looks worse--an extra ten pounds and it is less noticeable.

[Get Rid of Cellulite]

It is true that cellulite is not just reserved for "the fat", but I sure would love to find the exact weight for me where it is less noticeable. For me the extra 10 pounds makes it look worse. The best results I have found are to be to stay a little underweight and exercise! I love this blog...always something good!