BRYAN RAY: I grew up in the San Fernando Valley, California. I come from a super loving and fun family.
School life for me: I had bad skin, I had bad teeth. I definitely was not a confident teenager whatsoever.
I knew that there was sort of, like another person living inside of me
that just didn’t reflect what I saw in the mirror.
COMM: Nowhere is prouder of its plastic surgery culture than Hollywood, and it is not just the A-list getting
treatments. Anyone can get the look they want even if it is to emulate their favourite star.
32-year-old Bryan Ray lives in Los Angeles with his fiancé Jonathan.
BRYAN RAY: In terms of my appearance and what I look like, I am definitely trying to emulate my icon,
the legendary Ms Britney Spears. Because I think she is absolutely stunning. I have invested upwards of $80,000
on myself. I had my nose redone, fat injections into my cheeks, laser hair removal; I do Botox and lip fillers.
COMM: Bryan has completely embraced all things Britney. He not only loves to look and dress like her,
he also likes to dance to her music.
BRYAN RAY: Yeah! I love dancing. I think it just you know, you get to have a moment and create art and sort of,
just like, let your body just go and do its things and have fun with it. I was 16 years old when I first considered
cosmetic surgery. My mom kind of, was bugging me like you know, ‘What is it that you want for your 17th
birthday?’ And I told her, ‘Mom, I want veneers. I want completely a new set of teeth.’ She was expecting me to
say like a car or something like that because I just got my permit.
COMM: Lori, Bryan’s mother is an entrepreneur and Pastor.
LORI WYNN: I feel that the work that Bryan likes to have done makes him happy. So it makes me happy that he is
making himself happy and being true to who he is.
I don’t enable him in any way but I am a supportive mom absolutely.
COMM: Bryan’s social circle are also accepting of his surgery.
JONATHAN LANGER: I think our friendship group in L.A. is interesting and diverse and it is comprised you know,
mainly of people from all different walks of life and different sexualities and different backgrounds,
and we all come together and have a great time.
BRYAN RAY: If somebody wants to call me a freak, I take it as a compliment because I love freaks. I am a freak.
I am a weirdo. I am all of those things.
COMM: Bryan’s next procedure is at one of the many exclusive clinics just off L.A’s Rodeo Drive.
DR ALEIX MAXIMUS BAZZI MD: This space was initially designed to make a patient feel at ease rather than in a
medical office which can be full of fear and certain anxiety-driven feelings. It is important for me and for the clients
to feel that they are coming to a special place.
BRYAN RAY: I absolutely love coming to this office. It is so exclusive, you get pampered and really you can just
get the royal treatment here. So, it’s incredibly lux and that’s what today is all about, lux.
COMM: Dr Bazzi has done work on Bryan before. But today’s treatment is particularly bloodthirsty.
DR ALEIX MAXIMUS BAZZI MD: Hi, Bryan. BRYAN RAY: Hi, Dr Bazzi. How are you?
DR ALEIX MAXIMUS BAZZI MD: Good you see you again. BRYAN RAY: Nice to see you.
DR ALEIX MAXIMUS BAZZI MD: Come on in. You ready? BRYAN RAY: I am so ready.
DR ALEIX MAXIMUS BAZZI MD: Awesome! Come on. BRYAN RAY: Let’s do this.
DR ALEIX MAXIMUS BAZZI MD: A vampire facial is a procedure that increases the collagen deposition in the
skin, improves the texture, the tone and the colour. It is a nice subtle way of making someone look more youthful
and rejuvenated. The average cost is around $600 here.
INTERVIEWER: Where do you get the money to pay for all these procedures?
BRYAN RAY: My fiancé and I own a Medical Marijuana Edible Company. I work hard, I work very hard and I love
treating myself. When I want to do a procedure, I am in a position where I have the means to do it.
DR ALEIX MAXIMUS BAZZI MD: All right! So we are going to draw right now.
DR ALEIX MAXIMUS BAZZI MD: Here we are. This is 10ml of blood and we are going to put in the centrifuge
to separate the PRP from that. We will get the PRP on top.
COMM: PRP is Bryan’s own blood plasma and it will be injected into his face to rejuvenate the skin.
BRYAN RAY: I just wonder if my blood has any glitter in it?
DR ALEIX MAXIMUS BAZZI MD: It has glitter, lots of glitter.
BRYAN RAY: I don’t love not, you know, having not some makeup on. It is all in the name of the goal.
The goal of youth and beauty.
BRYAN RAY: I am very proud of my skin. Because like I said I am 32 and it is still very smooth and there’s no hair
and I do laser hair all over my face and body. I get laser done every six to eight weeks and I have for the last 10
years. My theory on hair is that it just it’s ageing. It makes you look older. So I like my body to be incredibly
smooth and it goes back to Peter Pan and never growing up and to everyone else it might seem strange and odd.
But for me it is my normal and I have imagined what I want my life to be.
BRYAN RAY: Is it pretty painful?
DR ALEIX MAXIMUS BAZZI MD: I mean if it gets to the scalp through the forehead, it is on bone.
BRYAN RAY: Okay!
DR ALEIX MAXIMUS BAZZI MD: You are going to feel something.
BRYAN RAY: Okay! No pain no gain. DR ALEIX MAXIMUS BAZZI MD: No pain no gain.
BRYAN RAY: Dr Bazzi is one of my all time favourite doctors because he is so much fun and he also is
a martial artist. So sometimes when I come in, he will be doing like martial arts moves.
BRYAN RAY: Yes! See, like, so cool to come and see that. DR ALEIX MAXIMUS BAZZI MD: Do that while injecting.
DR ALEIX MAXIMUS BAZZI MD: We are taking out the PRP from tube and this is the liquid gold.
So go ahead and smile and then relax.
DR ALEIX MAXIMUS BAZZI MD: Dr Bazzi seeks out the creases and imperfections in Bryan’s face and injects
them with Bryan’s own blood plasma.
BRYAN RAY: I just feel like this position would be very appropriate given the situation.
COMM: The remainder of the plasma is then smeared on Bryan’s face and his skin is punctured with a microneedle
allowing the plasma to seep into the flesh.
DR ALEIX MAXIMUS BAZZI MD: All right! We just finished the micro needling of the PRP into the skin and
you can see the hyperaemia of the skin. It is all red and rosy.
BRYAN RAY: Okay!
DR ALEIX MAXIMUS BAZZI MD: So you can wash your face tomorrow morning and you will be good to go.
You will be beautiful.
BRYAN RAY: Well, thank you so much.
DR ALEIX MAXIMUS BAZZI MD: More beautiful. You are welcome.
BRYAN RAY: Thank you so much.
DR ALEIX MAXIMUS BAZZI MD: You are welcome. All right! That’s it, guys.
BRYAN RAY: I am so excited to see the results and you know, I feel like I am off to Neverland.
DR ALEIX MAXIMUS BAZZI MD: Bryan is going to expect a response from the platelets when they release the
growth factors and that stage takes about two weeks. Deposits of microscopic fat and more vessel formation
to enhance the skin colour and texture and tone, that can last up to six months.
BRYAN RAY: I am feeling incredible after my vampire facial. I know right now I may look a little horror movie
but it’s all in the name of beauty.
JONATHAN LANGER: The relationship that I have with Bryan isn’t a relationship with Britney Spears.
It’s with a real human being and a real human being who strives to be a better person. I am quite good with how I
look. I think natural is fine for me in my own way; I don’t need it but each to their own.
LORI WYNN: I am not sure where Bryan’s drive comes. Obviously, he is Britney Spears’ number one fan.
So she is a driving force and I think it is sort of, like addictive.
BRYAN RAY: I am definitely always going to be tweaking myself, like, I don’t see me stopping this lifestyle at all.
But that being said, I am very comfortable in my skin. I am confident with who I am and the journey that I am on
and it is all about sort of, just following my dream and following my passion and continuing expressing myself
in this form of art.
BRYAN RAY: It’s kind of, always evolving. I don’t know what the next step is. That’s part of the fun and the
journey of it all and I am just along for the ride really.