People are driven a lot by the desire to be remembered. Ironically, this often manifests as tens of thousands of people dressing alike in order to tie their persona to one that they feel will survive through time immemorial. Whether it’s women sporting "the Rachel" hairstyle inspired by Jennifer Aniston in Friends, or men bashfully carrying cardboard boxes full of MC Hammer parachute pants to Goodwill, Americans are no strangers to celebrity impersonation. With the popularization of plastic surgery among everyday Americans, the possibilities for impersonation have increased even more, to a point where not only can people dress up, or style their hair after a chic celeb; they can actually request features that got them famous.

Celebrity’s noses, lips, and figures can now be surgically added to the people who lust after them. One example that is gaining popularity in the wake of the royal wedding between Kate Middleton and Prince William is known as the "Pippa butt lift". While the media gave ample time to fawning over Kate and William, what they were wearing and how happy they looked, people with an eye for figures tended to gravitate towards Kate’s sister, Pippa. Sporting a white, butt-hugging dress, women around the country eyed her backside and pined "Why can’t I fill out a dress like that?" Enter plastic surgeons the world over with great news—they can. Butt lifts have been more and more entering America’s dialogue on cosmetic surgery. It seems as though it manages to avoid some of the stigma related to other cosmetic surgery; while breast augmentation and face lifts still hold their association with the likes of Pam Anderson and Paula Abdul, butt lifts seem to be interpreted as a slightly more modest form of self-enhancement. It’s not a surgery that one would immediately recognize on a person, especially in face-to-face interactions. Pippa’s behind made such a wave through the plastic surgery community that one plastic surgeon specializing in gluteal sculpting said that 20% of his work were people specifically requesting that their butt be made to look like Pippa’s.

Some people see this as a dangerous road to go down—are we, as a culture, valuing individuality less and less in favor of the flavor of the week? After all, it’s clear that our aesthetic preferences evolve with our culture. Just look back to the early 90’s and how downplayed derrieres used to be; a big backside back then was considered somewhat unsightly on anyone but Jennifer Lopez, one of the stars who helped popularize love of full-bottomed women. So is resigning ourselves to a celebrity’s traits a mistake that women who go for the Pippa will regret? Only time will tell.