Parents who make their children undergo plastic surgery

[sleepy]

Blobbi:

Really! I found this website of before/after pics. Very astounding. Be prepared to be amazed ...
http://gollydays.wordpress.com/koreanplasticsurgery/

I think some of them face features are the same before & after. Could be due to good make up.
Good make up technique can make the eyes so much larger & transform an average looking girl to a beautiful swan

[janet88]

I think it’s sad people are going for plastic surgery because of love. Shouldn’t inner beauty be more important than the looks ?

Botox seems so common now, and people go for it every 6 months to ‘maintain’.

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qms:

Actually, Faye Wong also sends her daughter for plastic surgery, but it is because to rectify some birth defects around the mouth area which hampers her daily routine activities, if I remember correctly.


Hence, we have to look at the individual circumstances, too.

If not mistaken, I believe her daughter was born with a cleft lip. The surgery was for more medical reasons.

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janet_lee88:

I think it's sad people are going for plastic surgery because of love. Shouldn't inner beauty be more important than the looks ?

Botox seems so common now, and people go for it every 6 months to 'maintain'.

Apparently there are \"botox parties\", where some ladies engaged a beautician (who's not even a trained aethestic doctor) to perform the injections. This was reported in Straits Times recently.

[nic88]

Hey Guys, OP here.


Just asking a variation of the original question:

Have you heard of parents not forcing, but pushing/encouraging them to get plastic surgery instead?

[stephaniehuf1990]

Cosmetic Surgery becomes very demanding to beauty people. Who has small eyes, uneven face line, snub nose, unattractive breast, extra fat on body they can apply this method to solve their Problems.


I also took the help of advanced medical technology to re-shape me.
I visited Korea’s The LINE Plastic Surgery Clinic last month.
Excellent! It’s my new birth.

[Kate1]

I agree with so many people here–it is not a healthy mindset that chooses to get cosmetic surgery for a child to enhance the child’s beauty. It’s bad for the child, too. Either they grow up with a similar mindset (very judgemental of others and too focussed on appearances instead of character), or they get the message that they are only valued to their parents in terms of appearance, which is pretty heart-breaking for a young child.


However, there can be similar situations where it may be warranted.

I knew a boy with a very large nose when he was young. It was enormous. He was (physically and verbally) bullied relentlessly. His parents moved schools for him 3 times, but everywhere it continued. He had no friends, because anyone who spent time with him would be bullied also, so even the nice children kept their distance out of fear for their own safety. His parents realised that unless the bullying stopped, their son would be mentally scarred for life, causing all sorts of unnecessary problems for the poor boy. So, at the age of 8 or 9, they sat down with him and discussed the option of getting surgery to change his nose. He jumped at the chance. They were careful (a counsellor helped them with this a lot, I later found out) to make it clear that the surgery wouldn’t make him a better person or the bullies less nasty, but that bad people treat others based on appearances, after all, and it is necessary to survive when things get as bad as they were.

It was a horrible situation to be in, really. But I think they made the best decision for their son, and they were very careful that he understood the reasons behind it. I remember he had a counsellor of his own (to deal with the issues from bullying) for quite a while, and that helped, too.

So… yeah. Unless a child is in a similar extreme situation (i.e. one that requires a professional psychologist etc.) then I feel it isn’t necessary, and it on the whole damaging to the child in one way or another. Subtly encouraging, pressuring, or manipulating a child to get surgery for unnecessary reasons is possibly worse than forcing, because it only works by training the child to think in the same horrible, appearance-centred, judgemental way as the parent. Otherwise they’d never make that sort of decision on their own.

[janet88]

Son had surgery for cleft lip at 2 months and another one for cleft palate at 8 months old.

As he develops, the facial structure changes. Now he is getting his teeth corrected.

Plastic surgery is very painful. Unless necessary, why make kids go through this? One nip and tuck is never enough…first comes nose or eyes, then what’s next?

[Wandi_flora]

I think parents should accept their child as who they are unless it’s for medical reason. Why put your child through the pain?

[msapple]

Agreed, which parents would put their through the pain