Celebrities like Heidi Montage only work to perpetuate the notion of women as sex objects.
By the time she turned 21 in September 2007, MTV reality star Heidi Montag had already had a nose job, collagen lip injections, and implants that turned her A-cups into cantaloupe-round 32-Cs. In the years since, she's mulled over what to have done next, saving photos of stars like Angelina Jolie and consulting her surgeon more than 20 times. In this week's People, she describes her behavior as "absolutely obsessed." Which led her to the operating room once again, on Nov. 20, for a total of 10 procedures in one sitting.
The problem it creates is that young girls see this as normal (at Least in Hollywood.)
We've grown up on pop culture that screams that everything is a candidate for improvement. We've watched bodies transformed on Extreme Makeover; faces taken apart and pieced back together on I Want a Famous Face. We dissect Demi Moore's Photoshopped body on the cover of W magazine and wonder how the 47-year-old mother, even before the airbrushing, could possibly look so good. Meanwhile, statistics from the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery show that cosmetic-surgery procedures performed on those 18 and younger have nearly doubled over the past decade, while nearly 14 percent of Botox injections are given to those in the 19-to-34 age group, like Heidi. "I think it's a very interesting time for girls, in that what we all grew up believing—that you have to play the hand you're dealt—is no longer true," screenwriter and director Nora Ephron recently told NEWSWEEK. "In some sense, you really can go out and buy yourself a better face and a different body."
We've grown up on pop culture that screams that everything is a candidate for improvement. We've watched bodies transformed on Extreme Makeover; faces taken apart and pieced back together on I Want a Famous Face. We dissect Demi Moore's Photoshopped body on the cover of W magazine and wonder how the 47-year-old mother, even before the airbrushing, could possibly look so good. Meanwhile, statistics from the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery show that cosmetic-surgery procedures performed on those 18 and younger have nearly doubled over the past decade, while nearly 14 percent of Botox injections are given to those in the 19-to-34 age group, like Heidi. "I think it's a very interesting time for girls, in that what we all grew up believing—that you have to play the hand you're dealt—is no longer true," screenwriter and director Nora Ephron recently told NEWSWEEK. "In some sense, you really can go out and buy yourself a better face and a different body."
I am not against plastic surgery, however I think in cases such as reality star Heidi Montag, they are unnecessary. Especially since Montag is featured on reality tv constantly and young girls see her face everywhere, I do not think she is a good role model anymore. The sad thing is she was pretty before she got all her work done, and now she kind of looks like a plastic monster. I think these kinds of surgeries should have a limit on them, maybe only so many surgeries per person if you're at a certain age. I don't think this will really ever happen but its just a suggestion for how we can put an end to young pretty people getting unnecessary cosmetic surgery to alter their appearance to look like this "perfect" human being, which will never exist. Sad world we live in...
ReplyDeleteI'm all for plastic surgery but she just went WAAAYYY overboard. If women can't realize how absolutely ridiculous this is, then that is their fault. And if anyone looks at her and aspires to be like her, I'm sorry. I also think it's funny how she blames her surgery on Spencer, saying she only got it to please him, but I find this hard to believe. I can't imagine a guy wanting to transform their girlfriend into this monster, yuck.
ReplyDeleteit sucks that women and men have had to come to the point where they have look a certain way to feel good about themselves. girls see shows on TV and believe that this is beauty, or this is what guys want. plastic surgery was created to fix accidents not change who you are. i wish more people could laugh at how stupid these insecure people are.
ReplyDeletei think its hot and women have the choice to say no but they like the attention so why stop them. men do it to. i feel bad that they cant see how they are being used but im sure friends have told them to stop and wake up, but they love the way the are viewed and wont quit.
ReplyDeletefuck bitches, and the media.... go gay
ReplyDelete