Say bye-bye to the Baywatch Babes. And now that
"Baywatch" is jiggling off into the sunset,
cosmetic surgeons reveal that the TV show revolutionized the industry. "We were blessed with Baywatch," plastic surgeon Dr. Leonard Grossman said. "It is the most vivid form of advertising. It's like an hourlong plastic-surgery commercial." When the show was at its height, prospective patients would bring in pictures of Pamela Anderson and ask to be lifted, sculpted and lipo-sucked to perfection, Grossman recalled. "Baywatch may have slipped out of the public eye in recent years. Now people are looking at Britney and others stars," the doctor said. "But Baywatch and Pam Anderson brought our business to a whole new level."