Plastic Surgery: The New Drug

Millions of people are unhappy about their appearance or they want to look perfect so they decide to get plastic surgery. Plastic surgery is not cheap; a nose job cost close to four thousand dollars and your insurance does not cover it. Body dimorphic disorder (bdd) is a mental illness where the person is concerned with their body image. Half of the people who habdd is addicted to plastic surgery and wants to make their body perfect.

Plastic surgery is a big deal for today celebrities. They want to look perfect for the camera and their fans, so they will spend thousands of dollars to make them look perfect. Heidi Montag was a very pretty women but she wanted to look better. She had over ten procedures done which includes breast implants, face lift, liposuction and many more. Heidi Montag was once a stunning celebrity but fell off with her excessive plastic surgery. Plastic surgery isn’t just for young women, its popular for older women to make them appear younger. Joan Rivers had a face lift, brow lift, check implants, Botox and many more procedures. Joan Rivers response to her extensive plastic surgeries was “Plastic surgery has everything to do with how a person feels about him or herself. There is no such thing as too much.” After multiple surgeries to her face, it now looks inhuman.

Plastic surgery isn’t just for women; it’s also popular for men. The most popular procedure for men is face lifts. Men also get Botox, liposuction, nose jobs and even calf implants, which make their calves, appear more muscular. Many male celebrities went under the knife to make them look perfect. Michael Jackson had an addiction to plastic surgery, ten nose reconstruction surgeries. There was a rumor that his nose fell off during a concert.

A few people even got plastic surgery to make them resemble an animal. Lizard man has spent over $250,000 to make him appear as a lizard. More than 650 hours of tattooing and Teflon horns sub dermally implanted above each of my eyes to form horned ridges. Four of his teeth have been filed into sharp fangs and his tongue has been bifurcated.

Why can’t people be happy at the way they look? The media has changed society’s views on plastic surgery. Before it was taboo and only done by celebrities, but now the middle class are spending thousands of dollars to get Botox or face lift to appear younger and because their favorite actress had it done. Many people who get plastic surgery will not stop after the first procedure, they will get many more. They will not stop until they look perfect or out of money.