Infomercial Irony 2: Plastic Surgery Junkie Dr. Lewis Feder Sells “Stem Cell Therapy”
March 24th, 2011 by Paul Lucas
It seems that Joan Rivers is not the only plastic surgery freak with the audacity to sell beauty products on TV.
Dr. Lewis M. Feder has been promoting various skin care products on TV since the 1990s. His latest infomercial is for a skin cream called Stem Cell Therapy. Dr. Feder is a New York plastic surgeon, and the man obviously likes to get high on his own supply, if you know what I mean. Compare this picture of the doctor when he started to appear in his infomercials:
…with this photo of him today:
Let me humbly suggest that the good doctor achieved his facial transformation with something a little more powerful than jarred face cream. (See more pictures of him on Google images).
Have a look at Dr. Feder’s appearance on the Stem Cell Therapy infomercial:
The name “Stem Cell Therapy” most likely was chosen to cash in on the recent publicity (and controversy) over embryonic stem cell research, even though this product doesn’t seem to have anything to do with that. The medical science breakthrough most eagerly anticipated by Beverly Hills hags and Manhattan crones alike is that a plantation of human embryos would be constantly harvested to ensure they look youthful for all of their soirées. (Either that or something to re-animate their pet lap dogs.) By slapping the name “Stem Cell” on a jar, Dr. Feder will convince them that their day has finally arrived!
(Full disclosure: In the 1990s, I actually bought Dr. Feder’s Dual Action Acne Gel off of an infomercial hosted by dirtbag talkshow host Richard Bey. The product was worthless, but at least it was better than the infomercial product Acne-Statin from Dr. Atida Karr, which actually made things worse!)
Check out the cheesy commercials for two of Lewis Feder’s earlier products, StaTight and LifTight:
I don’t know why these ads seem to put down cosmetic surgery, considering what a fan Dr. Feder is of the procedure both professionally and personally!
Maybe Lewis Feder shows up in his commercials as a warning to customers. “Don’t get plastic surgery and end up looking as strange as I do. Try my Stem Cell Therapy cream instead!”
Comment by euGene — March 24th, 2011 at 4:06 pm
I like how Liftight talks about the REAL SCIENCE that powers it.
Comment by Anne Packrat — March 24th, 2011 at 5:08 pm
I love the irony of these adverts – the way all these beauty products invariably make the models look more terrifying in the “after” pictures than “before”?
Comment by Robert B. — March 25th, 2011 at 6:52 am
Thank you, thank you, thank you! I HATE this skin cream commercial and I especially despise Dr. Feder because he is the biggest fraud on TV. Imagine being a physician, taking an oath, and then throwing around the words “stem cell” to sell wrinkle cream. Charlatans like him have been pullilng scams like this for 1000 years. His plastic surgery is so obvious — what kind of sucker would buy that stuff — but it must sell because the ad still runs. Again, thank you. I did a bunch of stories on my website about this guy and I was happy to see that I was not alone.
Damien
TheDamienZone.com
Comment by Damien — June 26th, 2011 at 1:22 pm
LOL! You know, I was in that sleazy informercial for Dr. Feder (with Richard Bey) back in the 90s. He was a horn dog and all over some blonded girl in the commercial.
Anyway, I actually like the stuff back then. But, they did tell me to speak about breakouts and I never, in my life, had acne. I did use the cream, but never went through any sort of skin issues . . .
Comment by Angela Theresa — December 8th, 2011 at 4:55 pm
This lowlife slime has been around on TV forever. And you bet, he’s had lots of ghastly work done on himself and looks wicked ugly and badly embalmed. Anyone board certified in his speciality who can’t earn an impressive living honestly,with no smoke and mirrors and PT Barnum merda..insults and erodes his entire profession and should be avoided at all costs..`
Shame on him……and anyone clueless enough to get sucked into his snake oil schemes!
Comment by Jill Morris — January 1st, 2012 at 1:56 am