The rise in wearing gym gear as everyday clothing is behind a 12 per cent spike in women receiving liposuction treatment, experts have said.

In recent years, many brands have embraced the trend of 'athleisure' with leggings and bra tops now as acceptable at the bar, as at the barre.

Yet rather than hitting the gym to gain the physique needed to pull off such tight and skimpy outfits, woman are instead visiting the clinic, according to The British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (BAAPS).

The number of liposuction operations, in which fat is removed from the thighs and buttocks, rose by 12 per cent to 2,286 for women, to make it the fastest growing area of plastic surgery.

Recent figures showed 'athleisure' is now a £3bn market in the UK, fuelled by the rise of the Instagam-led trends of healthy living and clean eating. Brands which never produced sportswear now have ranges, including H&M, Boohoo, Primark, New Look, Ted Baker, Topshop and Whistles.

The original phrase was first used in 1976 in an advert for trainers but it officially enter the dictionary in April 2016, defined as “casual clothing to be worn for exercising and for general use.”

Other areas of cosmetic surgery on the rise included nose jobs, up three per cent to 2,831, and face and neck lifts which saw a jump of seven per cent to 2,134 procedures, driven by celebrities, such as Jane Fonda, who recently admitted to decades of work.