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susiebk:

I have, though not intentionally.  Here is my sort of funny story.  When I was in high school, nose jobs were all the rage.  My dad had one (I liked his original nose better - it was more manly).  His wife had one.  My best friend was scheduled to have one, and she didn't want to do it alone, so, being the good friend that I was, I asked my dad to take me for a consult.  Well, that was enough for me to know that I wanted no part of it whatsoever.  My friend had her surgery and it came out nice, although she had looked fine before too.

A year went by and I was involved in a car crash.  I was fine, but one small part of me wasn't - you guessed it, my nose.  What had before been a nice to have became a necessity.  Either that or get used to my nose being over on one side of my face.  So I waited the requisite month for the break to heal and had the corrective surgery, along with a few minor tweaks.  I guess I made the right decision when I didn't have the original surgery, or else this would have been my second surgery, and the first would have been ruined when my face met the steering wheel (me bad - no seat belt).

In general, I do not feel that cosmetic surgery is worth the risks, which include death.  Also, many people believe that they will feel differently (better about themselves) afterward when often they don't, and then they become depressed.

What do you think?

serious crayons:

--- Quote from: susiebk on March 07, 2008, 02:45:49 pm ---A year went by and I was involved in a car crash.  I was fine, but one small part of me wasn't - you guessed it, my nose.  What had before been a nice to have became a necessity.  Either that or get used to my nose being over on one side of my face.  So I waited the requisite month for the break to heal and had the corrective surgery, along with a few minor tweaks.
--- End quote ---

When I was young, I always hoped this would happen to me!  :laugh:

I've always hated the fact that in our culture normal aging is seen as a disease to be "fixed" surgically. I especially hate that what's considered unattractive aging, especially in women, occurs only about halfway through life! And it would be so ironic and sad and awful to die or be permanently injured as the result of voluntary plastic surgery.

That said, now that I'm in that second half myself I can't help but be affected by cultural attitudes. So sure, I wish I could "fix" the age-related "flaws" I see in the mirror. I can understand why people get cosmetic surgery. But for myself I hope I will never have actual surgery -- to be anesthetized, have my face cut up, to wind up bruised and swollen and wearing bandages for weeks, etc.

On the other hand, I have nothing against Botox, injectable fillers, dermabrasion, lasers, chemical peels or any other non-invasive procedure that doesn't involve full anesthesia, cutting, or long healing times.

Brown Eyes:
Well, I definitely had "unintentional" plastic surgery.  For me it was when I was 8 years old.  This all came about because when I was 4 I broke my nose by falling off a swing directly onto my face! Yikes!  And, I had a terribly broken, deviated septum as a result so that I could hardly breathe out of my nose following that accident.  But, according to doctors, at age 4 I was too young (for reasons that I don't recall) to have corrective surgery.  For some reason, 8 seemed to be the appropriate moment of maturity to have the correction.  So, they rebuilt my nose inside.  There was almost no cosmetic aspect to that surgery.  Breaking my nose didn't seem to impact its shape too much. 

So, that's not a very excititng plastic surgery story.  There are lots of aspects of it that I hardly remember.  I think I may have sort of blocked some of that out from my memory a bit.
 :-\

serious crayons:
I think the thing that creeps me out the most is when young, attractive women get plastic surgery so they can look even more perfect.

Once I stumbled upon a website that was this woman's journal of getting a plastic surgery procedure. It was one where they run a thread under your skin and tighten it, so it holds up the flesh. This woman wrote about pain and swelling and various complications she had, including one where the threads poked back out of her skin and started bleeding and she had to go back in and get them fixed, etc. It sounded pretty awful.

But then I came upon a picture of the woman. She was gorgeous -- she looked like a model. So after seeing the picture I thought, well, she did get pretty good results, I guess I can see why she did it. Then I read the caption. You guessed it -- it was her before picture.

serious crayons:

--- Quote from: susiebk on March 07, 2008, 06:20:59 pm ---Yes, some people do not seem to understand that they are attractive, for whatever reason.  Have you ever seen one of those people (there are a fair number of them in South Florida) who have had so much surgery that they don't look real anymore?  I think it is so sad.
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Yes, I have seen those people. Sad, but also kind of scary.

As for the already-pretty woman getting the threading procedure, I got the impression she was one of those people who understands they are attractive (she was in her late 20s, I'd say, with very glamorous makeup and hair), but are lured by the idea of looking even more perfect.

I think our celebrity culture, where you see lots of very young women -- already pretty enough to be stars -- getting plastic surgery,  promotes the idea that people should go for as much physical perfection as money can buy.

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