People are nipping and tucking just about everything nowadays. There's been a huge surge in the plastic surgery in recent years, with men and women spending $16 billion to adjust their appearance in 2016 alone. Now, plastic surgeons say umbilicoplasty, or belly button surgery, is the latest trend. Speaking with Daily Mail Online, experts say more and more people are requesting navels like Emily Ratajkowski and Jessica Simpson. Dr Matthew Schulman, a board-certified plastic surgeon, said the number of belly button revisions he's performed has doubled over the past five and six years. He currently performs 12 to 15 of these procedures per month, and attributes this uptick to social media as well as people becoming increasingly aware that they can actually do something about their navels. We've become a much more image-oriented society,' Dr Schulman told Daily Mail Online. 'People are more aware of their bodies on Instagram... and they understand now that there's a way to make their belly button's look better. According to RealSelf, there's been a 12 percent increase in people asking for navel surgery in the US compared to last year. That number is even higher in the UK, 
with 21 percent more people expressing interest in umbilicoplasty compared to 2017. The ideal belly button Experts say people are more likely to do something about their belly button right before the spring or summer season.
The belly button is an important part of your anatomy from a cosmetic perspective,' Dr Thomas Sterry, a board-certified plastic surgeon. told Daily Mail Online. If you're at the beach ... and you got a bad belly button, it's hard to look sexy,' Dr Sterry added.
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