The Best Me Possible
I was visiting my favorite celebrity gossip blog, www.Celebitchy.com (a daily occurrence) and happened upon a story of Heidi Montag and her many plastics surgeries. The blog mentioned an article in this month’s People Magazine, “Obsessed With Being “Perfect”.” The article featured a before and after photo of Heidi, the 23 year old star of MTV’s – The Hills. At 23, Heidi has subjected herself to over ten plastic surgery procedures. The before photo features Heidi before the second round of plastic surgery, but not before her initial rhinoplasty and breast augmentation which she had done in September 2007, at the age of 21.
Heidi has defended her decision to undergo all these procedures in order to create “the best me possible.” Statistics from the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery attest to the fact that many young women (19-34) also want to be their “best,” and go on to report the number of cosmetic-surgery procedures performed on females 18 and younger nearly doubled over the past decade. Girls no longer believe they have to play the hand they’ve been dealt – they can simply go out and buy a better face and a different body.
Reading the article and the subsequent comments the blog received in response, it made me think, what is beautiful? The term “Aesthetic Plastic Surgery” would lead you to believe the plastic surgery procedure will create a more aesthetically pleasing you. With breast augmentation and liposuction procedures growing by leaps and bounds, whose aesthetic standards are we conforming to?
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