Feeling Ugly? There's An Op For That!

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Cosmetic surgery, as far as I am concerned, shouldn't really be allowed. I mean Doctors should actually be banned from performing it, and certainly shouldn't be allowed to make a fuck-tonne of money from essentially exploiting people's insecurities. To clarify, I don't think plastic surgery as a whole is an evil business, I completely recognise the need for it to exist to allow people to have re-constructive surgeries, corrective surgeries and a whole spectrum of other, completely valid reasons requiring a plastic surgeon. The (MASSIVE) part that I have a problem with is the large proportion of operations to "fix a problem" that doesn't need fixing. People who have plastic surgery for the sake of having plastic surgery; doctors who willingly pump poisons into their clients' foreheads, women who want to have the biggest boobs in the world.
 I think that there is far too much weight placed on surgery as being a "quick-fix" and as being the solution to all your insecurities. Too fat? Gastric band. Lost the weight too quickly? We'll slice off all that unsightly flabby skin. Don't like the shape of your nose? Let me just take a chisel to it, and you'll be right as rain in 6 weeks time. Surgery is a HUGE undertaking, it's not something to flippantly decide on whilst sitting in the hairdressers one day. It's not a quick fix and it is certainly not the solution to all your unhappiness. There's a growing trend in today's society that says if there is something you aren't happy with, you simply change the thing. I personally think that if there's something you aren't happy with you should first try to change the way you think about the thing. (For example, see my post about feeling beautiful in yourself). I think if someone wants to drastically change their body by undergoing cosmetic surgery then they should have to undergo a rigorous course of counselling and therapy beforehand. Like each procedure should come with a mandatory 6-12 month course of trying to make people feel better about themselves before they have it done, with the aim of them not getting it done at all.*
All cosmetic surgery leads to is a desire for a perfection that can never be achieved. How many people stop at just one procedure? How many in actual fact go home and go "OK, great, now my boobs are perfect but the rest of me just doesn't add up. I think it'll be a tummy tuck next." People make cosmetic surgery shopping lists and then spend a fortune getting them all done because they think it will make them feel beautiful. Feeling beautiful does not come from being surgically crafted into societies' idea of perfect, it comes from being comfortable in your own skin and loving yourself. No amount of silicone and surgery can give you that, it has to come from you-by looking in the mirror and learning to love yourself exactly as you are-wobbly bits, imperfections, crows feet and all.
You know what I say? Sod growing old gracefully. Grow old ungracefully and let every line on your face show that you had a bloody good time doing it. Let your boobs sag and your wobbly bits wobble and stop striving so hard to be all the things that you're not. Because you don't need a surgeon to make you beautiful because you already are.

-Jenni-


*I realise, sadly, this will never happen due to the fact that it would not make anyone any money except some very happy psychiatrists. The surgeons would revolt!