Alex Kuczynski, long-time style reporter for The New York Times and The New York Times Style Magazine, is the author of a book about our craving and obsession for beauty at any cost: Beauty Junkies: In Search of the Thinnest Thighs, Perkiest Breasts, Smoothest Faces, Whitest Teeth and Skinniest, Most Perfect Toes in America.

"Fascinating," wrote The Seattle Times. Kuczynski "performs a real service," and "provides delicious tidbits for the cocktail-pary circuit," reported The New York Times Book Review. "Beauty Junkies" is "the book to read before the Botox party," noted The Houston Chronicle. "There should be a cocktail named after this woman," The New York Observer wrote of Kuczynski's lively writing style.

In its review, The Wall Street Journal reported: "Since women can achieve an approximation of attractiveness through one procedure or another, they all end up looking vaguely like the same person: an aging porn star. In the end, Beauty Junkies leaves the reader not only aware of the emptiness of cosmetic surgery's results but also conscious of the vacuity of our current concept of beauty itself."

In the words of Samuel Wilson Fussell, the author of Muscle: A Memoir, "Hold on to your implants and enjoy the ride!"