Revenge Plastic Surgery?

I was standing in my local supermarket waiting to check out and as usual I was perusing the tabloids. Tucked behind the typical Brangelina, Britney, and whoever is on Cosmo’s cover this month was a headline on US Weekly that really caught my eye and turned my stomach. The title is “Revenge Plastic Surgery.” It shows a smiling Heidi Montag star of reality show? The Hills. I say reality show? because I don’t know who’s reality that is. Anyway Miss Montag gave an exclusive interview to US in which she tells the magazine she was tired of being made fun of for being flat chested so she got revenge by not only investing in some fake breasts, but also some rhinoplasty. She didn’t mention anyone making fun of her nose, so that may have been an add on and not revenge. US was kind enough to show the before and after here. Interesting pictures for a 20 year old, who is now 21.

You will notice the poll on the page asks people which they liked better and I was so happy to see a definitive 82% liked her body before the surgery. As a male I am not going to go into the confidence issues and difficulty of having smaller breasts in today’s world. I know women with fake breasts which they got for a variety of reasons, but none of them were revenge. Revenge seems like a really bad motive for what is in essence mutilating your body. It scares me how normalized mutilating your body has become. The other scary thing is the rhinoplasty because her face isn’t finished maturing and changing. Ashlee Simpson did the same thing at the ripe age of 20 and again you don’t know how your body will change. Granted in Heidi’s case her breasts may have been finished developing for now, but there’s a lot of changes left in a woman’s life like I don’t know pregnancy. And a quick google search turned up that Heidi wasn’t too ashamed of her body to pose for Stuff Magazine before the plastic surgery. Even saying in the article she loves looking sexy. Apparently she also said she feels really insecure in the US article and was willing to risk her life for these changes.

SO I don’t know all that goes into the plastic surgery decision, but I do know it’s not the best thing for role models of the tweener girls and teenage girls to be doing. And let’s be honest women from their 20’s-40’s who are obsessed with the Hills as well. SO I guess it’s good on one hand to see how many people don’t like this, but sad that people in the public eye feel compelled to do this.