Pope Leo XIV Takes On Mar-a-Lago Face, Looksmaxxing, and America’s “Cult of the Body”

A sweeping Vatican document approved by the pope warns that the obsession with surgical perfection is an attempt to escape what it means to be human.

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In Washington, D.C., plastic surgeons report a surge in requests for what the industry now calls “Mar-a-Lago face” — the sculpted, frozen, perpetually thirty-five-year-old look that has become a…