Land sakes!
Last Thursday, I was waiting for my friend to come over so we couldl go to dinner. While I was waiting, my roommate and I were watching TV in my room and happened to turn on ABC's Extreme Makeover. After covering my eyes during the graphically gory surgery scenes, my friend showed up and I never got to see what the outcome was for this poor, poor woman.
She is only 25! She's balding, has no chin and droopy boobies. She looked about 50 to me. You know, I am unsure if I would ever engage in plastic surgery. I always think, "Man I wish I could lipo my love handles. I wish my nose was smaller and cuter. I wish my eyes were bigger and my lips were fuller." But to actually go through the pain and expense of surgery... I don't think I could ever do it. I have learned to be happy with what I have been blessed with and to work my great attributes. Show those legs! Flaunt that cleavage!
But what if I was so hideous that my life was dictated by my looks? What if I was so incredibly unhappy every time I looked in the mirror that it was ruining my life? How would I feel still being a virgin at 25? Never being in love at 25? Never even getting the time of day from a guy at the age of 25? What if I was offered a free surgeries to transform myself into more of the way I FELT on inside to the outside?
You bet your sweet ass I would. Like it or not, this society is so dictated by physicality. I had a co-worker say to me, on the subject of plastic surgery, that even if a woman looked awesome afterwards, he would have a hard time getting with her because she is pretty much all fake. He said he would rather be with an uglier person with a great personality than a beautiful woman with none.
Point granted... but after I saw the story of this woman, a good woman... a kind woman... who was never even given a chance to show her personality because of her appearance, I felt for her. Especially after I just looked up her before and after pictures, which I was dying to see. I mean, check it out...
How much has the quality of her life improved? Ten fold, I would wager. She now gets checked out. She can smile when she looks in the mirror. She feels beautiful. And feeling beautiful is worth its weight in gold. This is probably how she has always wanted to look. So even though plastic surgery is a pretty shallow venture, for women like this, I say God bless. And good luck.