How do celebrities get rid of cellulite?

“Celebrities have as much cellulite as anyone else - they just hide it with photo-editing, quite often even in paparazzi pictures.

Most cellulite treatments do not work and
celebrities do not necessarily get the best cellulite treatment, so a cellulite treatment endorsement by a celebrity means nothing: it may be amazing or it may be useless / a lie (many such pointless endorsement cases exist).”

Celebrities and cellulite: it’s complicated…

• What treatments A-list celebrities use to banish cellulite: the real reality, on the ground

• Photoshop and body make-up

• Celebrities don’t have cellulite? Think again.

• What do the Kardashians use for cellulite?

• In most cases, you cannot get "rid of cellulite”, even if you are a celebrity or a billionaire

• OK, so how do celebrities reduce cellulite then?

• So how do I choose a cellulite treatment, not based on celebrity choices?

• Celebrities with cellulite? Most of them have it.

• Have a cellulite treatment in London with the cellulite experts

• Discover our professional training in cellulite, skin tightening, radiofrequency and ultrasound

What treatments A-list celebrities use to banish cellulite: the real reality, on the ground

A-list (and even B-list) celebrities are daily bombarded by expensive PR agents to try different skincare products and treatments for free, and quite a few of them consequently get paid to share those “secrets” with their followers.

So what A-list celebrities use does not have to do with what is good or effective but with which cellulite treatment / cellulite cream company has the most expensive and most connected PRs.

Some celebrities indeed use good treatments/products, while most of them use whatever makes the rounds, i.e. the latest new fad every year, out of which they usually profit.

So celebrity endorsement is pointless, especially that of B-list celebrities who would sell their soul for some extra money and tabloid publicity.

I have seen celebrities using good stuff and I have seen celebrities using totally pointless things.

All in all, what celebrities use has little value: it may be amazing and honest or it may be just useless and fake. And you, asa consumer cannot know which is which. And given cellulite is such a tricky aesthetic condition, it’s usually the latter: useless and fake.

Photoshop and body make-up

Most celebrities retouch / photoshop their cellulite.

The fact is that even paparazzi pictures are retouched. Contrary to popular belief, the paparazzo-celebrity relationship is a two-way relationship - they quite often facilitate each other.

Many also use body makeup to cover cellulite in official shots. So what you see is not what exists in reality.

Celebrities don’t have cellulite? Think again.

Occasionally, unretouched paparazzi pictures make their way into the public domain (e.g. those infamous Kim Kardashian Mexico pictures) and then people see the real reality, as opposed to the polished reality presented by PRs.

(Other examples include icons of beauty such as Elle “The Body” McPherson and Cindy Crawford, among dozens of other celebrities who supposedly “do not have cellulite”.)

Which takes us to the next popular question:

What do celebrities like the Kardashians do to “get rid of” cellulite?

To which the answer is: who cares?

In line with what is mentioned above, most celebrities do not have a clue regarding anything to do with the science of cellulite (fair enough).

Furthermore, most celebs (A- and B-list) only promote what they get paid to promote, not what might be best. They would never promote anything for free.

Even if celebrities honestly promote something without freebies/financial remuneration, it is not necessarily the best thing.

What celebrities get presented with is the treatments/products with the most expensive PR budget, not necessarily the best treatments/products on the market.

As mentioned above, most celebs get offered free treatments by expensive PR companies on behalf of their clients, usually a large equipment manufacturer or a big aesthetic surgery clinic with deep pockets for marketing.

And definitely celebrities’ cellulite is almost never gets “rid off”.

Before Kim Kardashian’s Mexico paparazzi pictures were taken, she was promoting for years a specific cellulite machine (Velashape), as “amazing”. Did it work? Not at all, as the Mexico pictures proved.

So what did Kim’s promoting of that machine mean then? Nothing. She got paid to promote a machine, fans believed it and no-ones’ cellulite got “rid off”. But hey, at least lots of clinics - and Kim - made tons of money.

I wouldn’t take my advice on anything from celebrities, except:

• Make up

• Handbags

• Expensive clothes

• Luxury living

• And marketing, marketing, marketing

In those sectors, celebrities are indeed experts.

In most cases, you cannot get rid of cellulite, even if you are a celebrity or a billionaire

Just to reiterate here: the correct term is to “reduce cellulite”, not “to get rid of cellulite”.

This is because that unless cellulite is recent and limited, it can only be reduced. It cannot be eliminated completely, regardless of what A- or B-list celebrities claim.

Celebrities cannot change the laws of biology, regardless of how many hundreds of millions of £/$/€ they have in the bank, and this is evident from the fact that none of those that claim so, ever actually eliminated cellulite. Simple proof.

After the hyped up and handsomely paid for, “miracle cellulite banishing treatment”, they are always caught out with cellulite in the next lot of unretouched paparazzi pictures.

OK, so how do celebrities reduce cellulite then?

Obviously healthy nutrition, lots of exercise and an overall healthy lifestyle is the base: a good, strict nutritionist / personal trainer / life coach can do wonders. The latest trick with healthy diet is Ozempic / Wegovy, but they will never admit it. They prefer you to believe that they suddenly found unlimited amounts of discipline to eat healthily - and energy to exercise all day. The problem with this medication is that it is a life sentence: if you stop it, you will put the weight back on again.

Of course, on top of nutrition and exercise comes a good cellulite treatment and/or cellulite cream. Diet and exercise are essential for some cellulite reduction, but not enough for more pronounced or for fast results.

At the moment, regardless of what celebrities claim or do not claim, the best cellulite treatment is the combination of:

• Deep-acting, high-power radiofrequency

• Deep acting, high-power ultrasound cavitation

There are countless other cellulite treatments, but those are simply less effective and/or less safe.

And the best cellulite cream is a cream with:

• multiple…

• …high-purity (95% or higher)…

• …high-concentration actives…

• …well-researched for the their action against multiple aspects of cellulite

Caffeine, forskolin, isolated centella triterpenes, EGCG, escin, esculin, curcumin, hydroxyproline, cocoa flavanols, hesperidin, are some examples.

Again, there are countless creams on the market, many of which contain nothing or almost nothing in the way of anti-cellulite ingredients. You can read about the best anti-cellulite actives and what makes a good cellulite cream here.

So how do I choose a cellulite treatment, not based on celebrity choices?

The best way to choose a cellulite treatment is to consult many different sources, not just one:

• Do you research extensively, including our specialised blog, and then use your common sense to see which of the clinics in your area is credible

• Stay away from exaggerated claims. If it sounds too good to be true, it is too good to be true.

• Stay away from painful / semi-invasive / invasive procedures that need anaesthetic injections or numbing cream: they are usually ineffective in addition to being dangerous

• Don’t even think of believing that your cellulite will “go” in 1-4 sessions. Look for clinics talking about good results with 6-12 sessions instead.

• Check which clinic focuses on their science and which focuses on shallow marketing directed to the naive and gullible

• Check “before and after” pics, but - with caution. 95% of them are fake, one way or another, so use common sense.

• Check reviews. Many are fake too, so use common sense.

• Try three clinics in your area, discuss with them and again use your common sense to see who is serious and competent and who is all about sales and a quick buck

• Prefer specialised clinics/therapists than the “We offer 50 different treatments and 30 different machines” ones

• Do not be swayed by aesthetic surgeon-led clinics. Aesthetic surgeons know how to do surgery but most are quite clueless when it comes to cellulite reduction or non-surgical skin tightening. Plus the main aim of such huge clinics is to make tons of money, not to provide the best treatment at the best price. 

• Do not even think of being swayed by shallow bloggers, vloggers, tiktokers, YouTubers, B-list celebrities and other so-called “influencers”. No one who has time to do social media all day also has the time needed to read hundreds of research papers or apply themselves thousands of treatments every year, in order to know what works. Plus they only promote what they get paid for - not necessarily the best companies/clinics.

• Don’t bother with articles in snobbish magazines such as Vogue or Tatler. Only aesthetic manufactures or clinics with huge PR budgets can get through to them - not necessarily the best companies/clinics.

Celebrities with cellulite? Most of them have it.

All in all, most celebrities are like most of us, just with more money. They drink, they smoke, they vape, the eat unhealthily, they live an unhealthy life, they take hormonal contraception etc.

And quite often the fact that they have more money doesn’t help, as they have treatments that only huge aesthetic equipment manufacturers/aesthetic clinics (with huge PR budgets) can push through their PR agents, instead of what actually works.

Plus, like all of us, celebrities’ bodies can only improve so much, with ANY treatment, especially if they suffer from severe skin laxity or severe cellulite.

Hence the severe skin laxity of Elle “The Body” McPherson and the severe cellulite of Kim Kardashian.

Have a skin tightening/cellulite treatment in London with the experts

At LipoTherapeia we have specialised 100% in skin tightening and cellulite reduction for more than two decades and 20,000+ sessions.

This is all we study and practise every day and have researched and tried hands-on all the important skin tightening equipment and their manufacturers.

As strong, deep acting radiofrequency and deep-acting, high-power ultrasound cavitation are the technologies of choice for skin tightening and cellulite reduction, we have invested in the best RF/ultrasound technologies in the world.

Furthermore, over the last two decades we have developed advanced RF and cavitation treatment protocols in order to make the most of our technologies, for maximum results, naturally and safely.

Our radiofrequency/ultrasound treatments are comfortable, pain-free, downtime-free, injection-free, microneedling-free, 99.5%+ safe and always non-invasive.

And our focus is on honest, realistic, science-based treatment, combined with caring, professional service, with a smile.

We will be pleased to see you, assess your cellulite, skin laxity or fibrosis, listen to your story, discuss your case and offer you the best possible treatment.

Learn more or check prices and book an expert treatment at our London clinic (49 Marylebone High Street, W1)

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