I’m of the mind that if you’re willing to go through lipo and the painful recovery you may as well give some serious exercise a try first – especially if you have a body type that isn’t disproportionate and you just need to lose weight. For people with pear shapes or a lot of fat in one area it does make sense and I’m not knocking those who opt for surgery. If you have the money and want to do it, more power to you. I’m by no means saying it’s easy to lose weight, it just strikes me as more difficult to have to go through surgery. From what I understand, lipo can only do so much and isn’t the same as weight loss either.

Star Magazine is claiming that Jon Gosselin “quietly checked out surgeons” in Las Vegas who might perform some fat-sucking surgery for him.. For some reason he’s not going to his wife Kate’s plastic surgeon, the father of his sometimes girlfriend, Hailey Glassman. Gosselin is someone who takes what he thinks is the easy way out whenever he can and that’s why I find this story believable.

Jon wants to downsize his infamous pot belly with liposuction, says a source. While he was in Las Vegas to host a pool party (he kept his shirt on!) on Aug. 29, Jon quietly checked out local plastic surgeons. “He heard there were great doctors in the area, so he called around for prices,” says an insider.

“He sick of the fat jokes, and he knows he needs to look better to get the girls he wants. Jon’s hoping lipo will take off 20 to 30 pounds and make him look more desirable.” But don’t expect Hailey’s surgeon father to do the job!

[From Star Magazine, print edition, October 5, 2009]

This is Star Magazine, so this story could be complete bunk, but I believe it. The guy wants to score with the ladies and he doesn’t want to have to do much to get into shape. He might increase the number of women who will fall for his lame moves if he loses a little weight in his midsection. The thing is, from what I’ve read lipo isn’t meant as a weight loss tool and is just a way to reshape problem areas. From what brief research I’ve done on this, lipo is for removing fat and can help you lose 5-10 pounds max, not the 20-30 pounds Jon supposedly thinks he can get rid of through surgery. You would think he would learn this from Hailey, but she’s not the sharpest tool either.

Meanwhile In Touch is running a pretty amusing story this week about how Jon is a “sex addict.” They’re basing it on what we know about the guy’s sketchy lovelife, along with more quotes from what sounds like a working girl who claims to have had a threesome with him for two nights running in Vegas. Samantha Sterling is quoted as saying “[Jon] is sex-crazed… He absolutely thinks he can have anyone he wants. If his friends spot a good-looking girl, he asks them for a photo of their breasts.” They also quote a source who says “He went from Mr. Mom to a playboy. Jon has turned into a male slut.” Their “psychologist” goes on to say “Now that he is free of Kate, Jon’s rampant sex drive is being unleashed. He is acting like a kid in a candy store.”