She Delivered the Kardashian and Bieber Babies

It’s mid-morning, and Dr. Thaïs Aliabadi is bustling around her Beverly Hills office in a pair of baby-pink scrubs. She’s busy, having recently taken time off to attend the everyone-who’s-anyone-was-there Ambani wedding in Mumbai. Her first appointment of the day is with a 27-year-old Scooter Braun employee. When the patient arrives, she seems slightly starstruck to meet the woman who will soon be giving her a Pap smear. “My roommate loves you,” she tells Aliabadi. “She was like, ‘Dr. A could do brain surgery on me.’” The standard well-woman appointment usually includes a Pap and maybe some blood and urine tests; this is not that. Aliabadi calculates the patient’s cancer risk, performs a pelvic ultrasound, diagnoses her with PCOS, prescribes her Zepbound for weight loss, and tells her she’ll drop 24 pounds in four months. “That’s the Aliabadi formula,” the doctor says.

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