Due to today’s visual technology, the need for looking good or perfect, and keeping up with the most recent beauty trends is now part of our daily lives. Especially, celebrities’ belongings, such as brand name items and clothes, and their near perfect bodies in the media aspire us to follow and want to be like them. However, too much of it is as bad as too little. Wearing nice clothes and trendy make up like them would be fine, but our body shapes or facial structures cannot be the same as them. Today, what I want to discuss about is plastic surgery, especially among teenagers.
According to a new study conducted by Central YMCA, 25% of kids, ages 11 to 16, have considered getting plastic surgery due to what they see on television. It was found that over 50% of the girls and over 33% of the boys compared their bodies to what they saw on television.
Some plastic surgeons insist that plastic surgery really improve the self-confidence or self-esteem of people. However, for teens, plastic surgery may damage their whole growing periods because they are vulnerable and insecure in that time. If the outcomes are not good as they expected, it is too late to blame on TV.
Boys are not an exception. According to Clinic Expert website, the number of procedures for men carried out has increase to 4,298 in 2011 from 526 in 2003. Males are also aware of their appearance, comparing themselves to unrealistic body images of media. Having muscles and six packs on their bodies are now their standard of beauty, so they are willing to take a pill to get them. According to Beautiful Magazine Online, it is serious problem because the children are not being encouraged to take care of themselves and their health in a healthy way. Working out and diet should be the most helpful and inspiring way to having a healthy body, but it seems to take a while to get it, so they are looking for an easier more instant result.
I want to point out that what we see on television are all fakes. TV stars (celebrities) tempt our children by saying “I can eat whatever I want to eat and still thin,”or “I didn’t do anything and I am still look young.” However, they may take diet pills to maintain their nice body or do plastic surgery to be looked young. For sure, the stars always have trainer to keep their nice body and coordinators to make their appearance nicer. The thing is they are all ‘well-made dolls’ to show up to the public. It is not happen in reality. This is why we shouldn’t believe them by their image in the media but people are easily engrossed in these kinds of image without hostility or consideration, especially children.
Like I mentioned, it is just ‘trends’ like a ‘flash.’ Especially to teens, pursuing unrealistic images unconditionally is basically meaningless. It is also wasting time getting stressed from keeping their body shape like TV images. At this time in their lives, they should eat whatever they want to eat and grow until they are responsible enough to take care of their own bodies.
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