Despite its steady growth in popularity, cosmetic surgery has often been discussed by those who undergo it in the hushed, cryptic tones usually reserved for national intelligence agencies
But despite its steady growth in popularity, cosmetic surgery has often been discussed by those who undergo it in the hushed, cryptic tones usually reserved for national intelligence agencies. For every celebrity like Dolly Parton, who once famously declared, “If something is bagging, sagging or dragging, I’ll tuck it, suck it or pluck it,” there were a dozen others who outright denied having work done.
What really sets the members of this generation apart, surgeons agree, is not just that they are coming in earlier for treatments but also that they are coming in knowing exactly what treatments they want. Smith started getting preventive Botox at 19 and got a nose job at 23. Although she never had any reservations about cosmetic procedures – because her mother, grandmother and aunt have all had work done – she has noticed a change in how her peers discuss plastic surgery.
And yet, for all our enthusiasm about cosmetic procedures, Americans still seem confused about how to discuss their relative philosophical merits: It’s empowering to do what you want with your body, but it’s not empowering to feel the need to conform to conventional beauty standards; no one owes anyone information about their body and medical history, but don’t lie about what you’ve had done; and you should love yourself just as you are, unless you don’t, then you should change it.
Tovar argued that there is a hierarchy of values at play. “Transparency is an excellent value,” she said, “but if we take a step back and say the next part of the hierarchy is that we still believe in a beauty standard that is based on a White supremacist, thin ideal, then that’s not a really good value.” Practicing transparency without reckoning with that next, more complicated step, Tovar said, “is leading perhaps to the normalization of something like an unnecessary surgery.
During a consultation, Devgan said, she will often do an anatomical analysis and talk patients through a number of options, ranging from least to most invasive. “For example, options for a brow lift could be the use of Botox, or a suture suspension, or surgery,” she said.
One thing influencers want you to know is that they’re not trying to persuade you to get work done. But as Earle says in her video: “This is also not me convincing anyone to get a boob job. You should love yourself. But if there is something you want do for yourself, then do it.” And Smith says: “I’m not encouraging anyone to do anything. If I want to get something done, it’s a personal choice, and I’m choosing to share my personal choice.
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