It was a bright early afternoon at Utopia Plastic Surgery when Dr. Franklin Rose went live with someone the whole office always looks forward to seeing. Marie Dee joined him for a Facebook Live consultation, and the energy in the room shifted the moment she sat down. She is one of those people everyone lights up around. Working with her over the years has been a genuine pleasure, and she remains as thoughtful and gracious as ever, walking viewers through her procedures and letting us share the next step of her journey with you.
Dr. Rose’s manner was exactly what patients who know him expect: kind, unhurried, and quietly confident. Their working relationship stretches across several projects, and that familiarity shows. He has known her anatomy and her goals long enough to talk about both with the ease of a long collaboration, not a first meeting.
Marie opened the conversation by recapping the work they have already done together. About a year ago, she had upper and lower blepharoplasty. “My eyes are just gorgeous,” she told viewers, still clearly pleased with that result. Dr. Rose has also done her breasts twice: an initial set of implants, then a replacement after she had two children. During that same chapter they performed liposuction 360, including her back and arms. She spoke about all of it the way she always does, openly and without drama, happy to let people see the full arc rather than only the finished photo.
The reason for this visit was smaller and more specific. Dr. Rose pointed out a subtle hip dip, the soft inward curve that breaks an otherwise smooth line from waist to thigh. Marie has very little donor fat left, which makes traditional fat grafting difficult. That is where the new option comes in.
“We have a new substance called AlloClae,” Dr. Rose explained, “which is harvested from cadavers, but it’s very, very safe. And we’ll just fill this in and we’ll give her a little bit more volume right in through here too.” He described the plan as a resilient buttock lift for a small contour defect, something that can be done in the office. Spelling it out for the live audience, he noted it is AlloClae, a structural adipose filler, not a temporary synthetic filler.
Marie’s reaction was immediate. “I’m excited about it because it’s real fat,” she said. “I think that’s why I want it. It’s real good. It’s very good biomaterial. It’s not filler. Because the filler is not permanent. And it would be so expensive to use filler in that area.”
AlloClae is a ready-to-use structural adipose filler made from screened donor fat tissue. Processing preserves the extracellular matrix, the natural scaffold of fat, while removing donor cells and DNA. Once placed, it provides immediate volume and a framework the patient’s own tissue can grow into. It is suited to localized refinements like hip dips rather than large-volume augmentation, which is exactly the role it is playing here. Dr. Rose also mentioned that influencer Alex Earl, who is similarly petite, has had AlloClae, and that images of her results are available online for anyone who wants to see how the material looks on a lean frame.
Asked whether the result is permanent, Dr. Rose was straightforward. It is designed to last many years. Even with traditional fat grafts there can be some absorption, he noted, but this material has a very long trajectory. That balance, honest about biology, clear about the goal, is typical of how he talks through a plan.
Watching Marie walk through another chapter with the same openness she has brought to every visit was the best part of the afternoon. She is popular for a reason. People respond to her, and she makes the process feel less mysterious by simply telling the truth about what she has done and why she is doing the next thing. We are grateful she let us share it, and we are excited to work with AlloClae as a new structural adipose filler for patients who want real adipose architecture without a liposuction donor site.
Thank you, Marie, and thank you to everyone who joined our Facebook live.
