There She Is, Miss Botox
Eric Pape has reported on Europe and the Mediterranean region for Newsweek Magazine since 2003. He is co-author of the graphic novel Shake Girl, which was inspired by one of his articles. He has written for the Los Angeles Times magazine, Spin, Vibe, Le Courrier International, Salon, Los Angeles and others. He is based in Paris.
Budapest has become a raunchy European porn capital fueled by a booming plastic surgery tourism trade. Eric Pape on a provocative beauty contest meant to boost business.
Real Housewives, Real Problems
Amy Kaufman is an assistant editor at The Daily Beast. A former reporter for The Wrap, she has also written for the Wall Street Journal and the Los Angeles Times.
As their fifth season begins, The Real Housewives of Orange County tell The Daily Beast how they've been forced to downsize their lifestyles-firing maids, selling McMansions, and paying off facelifts.
Participants in the Miss Plastic Hungary beauty pageant prepare backstage before the start of the contest that took place in Budapest on October 9....
My Odyssey Into Extreme Dermatology
Elizabeth Hayt is a freelance writer in Manhattan and the author of I'm No Saint: Memoir of a Wayward Wife. (Warner Books, 2006)
Forget botox, retinol cremes and aging naturally. At age 47, I had called in the big guns to fix the changing texture of my face-electro-surgery. I've never looked so good.
Who Did Nancy Pelosi's New Face?
Sandra McElwaine is a Washington-based journalist. She has been a reporter for The Washington Star, The Baltimore Sun, a correspondent for CNN and People and Washington editor of Vogue and Cosmopolitan. Currently she writes for The Washington Post, Time and Forbes.
The speaker of the House turns 69 today-not that you'd know it, with her dewy eyes and seamless features. Sandra McElwaine on D.C.'s hottest hush-hush habit: eye lifts, Botox, and more.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
Martin Jacques is the cofounder of the UK think tank Demos, writes a regular column for The Guardian, and is a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics Asia Research Centre. His new book, When China Rules the World, is available now.
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