In todays soceity everybody wants to be beautiful. Plastic surgery, botox, sunbeds, crash diets..all done with the aim to end up looking "perfect".
Programmes like "nip tuck" make the public believe that perfection is attainable, aswell as seeing their favourite celebs looking attractive after surgery; this makes the average person want to aspire to be at that level of perfection.
Programmes like "nip tuck" make the public believe that perfection is attainable, aswell as seeing their favourite celebs looking attractive after surgery; this makes the average person want to aspire to be at that level of perfection.Celebrities go to extreme lengths to become "perfect", spending thousands of pounds doing so. Celebs such as Demi Moore and Halle Berry have had plastic surgery, aswell as some of the younger stars too like Ashlee Simpson. However, plastic surgery can go dramatically wrong and end up having the total opposite effect to looking "beautiful". Take Donetella Versace and Pete Burns for instance..they now have clearly disfigured facial features after too much plastic surgery. So, why do it? Can people become addicted to it?
It appears they can, according to new research. "Imagined ugly syndrome" is what some people are suffering from and they have more and more plastic surgery to feed this addiction. They are said to get a "buzz" from their new look, feeling a sense of "psychological wellbeing".
The moral issues that many people think about when dealing with plastic surgery, diets, anything to do with "improving" your natural look, is why should you change what you have been given and why when it is at such a high cost to your health? Although, users are said to feel psychologically happier afterwards, they must surely have some sort of mental physical state to be addicted to it in the first place?
I'm all for people doing what they want (as long as it doesn't hurt anyone else) but I tend to think that where this kind of stuff is concerned, there tends to be quite a lot of exploitation involved...
ReplyDeleteNot all, but some people I think resort to plastic surgery because there are psychological issues involved (you mention imagined ugly syndrome). I feel that some plastic surgeons are a little too eager to charge clients for unnecessary procedures when the person in question could benefit from gaining confidence in other ways.