I woke up in so much pain that I’m staying in bed today. The stairs and hills over at the Japanese gardens yesterday were a bit too much for this sad body of mine.. So I’m eating my bananas and watching videos and news clips and came across this swedish documentary about a girl, Christina who went through a company that helps you book and schedule plastic surgeries in ”cheaper” countries such as Poland. She was getting a breast augmentation and ended up at a hospital that doesn’t even have a license to perform plastic surgeries. She was left with too high of a dosage of painkillers without supervision and after the surgery her heart stopped, leaving her severely brain damaged and now unable to function at all. That makes me so sad :( http://www.svtplay.se/uppdrag-granskning
Plastic surgery has always been a strange fascination to me. Perhaps because I don’t get it. Perhaps because I don’t have my health to begin with, and I don’t for the life of me understand how anyone could risk their good health for superficial reasons like bigger breasts, or a smaller nose, or less wrinkles even. Why would anyone do that!? I can’t be the only one who thinks that it’s absolutely insane. I went to school with girls who were getting nose jobs at 16, and breast implants for graduation presents, and I never understood how your parents or partners could be onboard with such a thing.
Seriously when did we fall for all of this bullshit that media and society and hollywood are feeding us? When did someone give them permission to decide what we should look like, or give them the power to make us feel badly about the way we look? I’m not saying I’ve never felt insecure about the way that I look, I think it’s really hard to get away from that pressure, but we have to do our best to know that we ARE good enough without surgically altering the way we look, and potentially risking our lives for something so unnecessary.
Alright you beautiful people, remember that.
