Heidi Montag
Written by, Becky Harris,
Esvie Contributor
I thought I’d seen the worst of it all when “The Hills” star Heidi Montag, 23, left a surgery after ten hours of her bits and bobs being blown up, cut up and stuck back on. But no, sadly, it seems this trend is now branching down to even younger beautiful people. And these people really are beautiful; whoever is suggesting they need to be tweaked must be blind!
It was recently revealed that 18 year old “Glee” actress, Charice Pempengo, has been undergoing small Botox procedures. According to Dr Vicki Belo, her surgeon, Charice took the injections so that her face would look narrower on screen. Her facial shape was apparently too “round”. And here’s me thinking it was a good thing that people looked different to each other.
I’ve never really been one to appreciate plastic surgery. When I first read about Heidi Montag’s
Charice Pempengco
ten different surgeries, I felt nauseous. I can understand and tolerate surgery for say, a broken nose, or my mum having to have her jaw stitched back together after falling off a horse, face-first into a rock. What I really do not understand is the appeal of unnecessarily massive breasts that are stuffed with plastic, tarnished with scars and make your back ache constantly; or your bum fat essentially just being sucked out and moulded back onto your face; or every month returning for a visit to have needles shoved into your lips to make them bigger and more alike to a trout.
Still, the topic has never really angered me, until now. There were once boundaries for plastic surgery and most definitely what age to consider it. However, if there was once a line, it has now completely been crossed and wiped out, along with the imaginary ones on the 18 year olds face. The craze has swept over young Hollywood in an instant- Amanda Bynes and Emma Roberts, (just 19!), are also included to have reportedly had work done before, and I doubt they will be the last.
That girls this young are turning to the plastic is truly disturbing in my eyes. I am only 19, and I know for a fact (I’ll admit this for the sake of my point) that my breasts have got a whole lot bigger in the past year! At such an age as this, girls cannot be sure they have even stopped growing, let alone getting “lines”. What’s more, if they’re starting before they’ve even hit 20, then what the heck are they going to look like by the time they’re 40?!
As further celebrities choose these “surgeries”, young girls who are influenced by these people are bound to end up thinking it is average, normal and accepted. This is promoting a completely wrong ideal. A stand needs to be made against this ridiculous, increasingly artificial beauty trend. Or what I can see happening is it becoming the norm- we will all be old, without wrinkles, sure, but we will also be without our expression and character. Plus, I would actually like to know what I am destined to look like (naturally), and can one day die safe in the knowledge that half of me is not plastic, it is all real.
