Dr. Sandra Lee, known as Dr. Pimple Popper, produces close-up extraction videos featuring pimples, cysts, bumps and other skin issues that have attracted massive audiences across platforms. Her channels include nearly 9 million YouTube subscribers, over 6.4 billion video views, about 17 million TikTok followers and roughly five million Instagram followers. The online popularity led to a Lifetime reality series, Dr. Pimple Popper: Breaking Out, which received a 20-episode second-season greenlight. She is the founder of SLMD Skincare. She was born in Flushing, Queens, spent early years in Staten Island, moved to California at five, and later lived in Manhattan in her twenties; her husband is from Westchester County.
If you don't already know Dr. Sandra Lee, a.k.a. "Dr. Pimple Popper," you for sure know her videos-those kinda gross but oddly satisfying, up-close-and-personal clips of clients' pores as the doc extracts pimples, cysts, bumps and the epidermal like. Those videos have garnered the doc a massive online presence, with nearly 9 million YouTube subscribers and over 6.4 billion total video views, plus nearly 17 million followers over on TikTok and another five million on Instagram.
The slightly masochistic but simultaneously relieving phenomenon of her videos has extended her reach to television, including a Lifetime reality series Dr. Pimple Popper: Breaking Out, which sees the world-famous dermatological surgeon navigate everything from everyday skin problems to life-affecting dermatological issues. This month, Lifetime officially greenlit a 20-episode second season of the popular program, with Dr. Lee returning for even more pimple-popping hijinks.
I was born in Flushing, Queens. My father did his dermatology residency training at SUNY Brooklyn, which is why I was born and initially raised in Queens and then Staten Island. We moved across the country to California when I was five years old, but I still consider myself a New Yorker in some ways, because my husband (also a dermatologist) is from Westchester County. I lived in Manhattan for almost two years in my 20s and, of course, I loved it.
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