If She Has Your Nose, She’s Getting Surgery
November 25, 2009 by Marijke Durning, RN
Filed under Beauty, Surgery
Picture a couple having a conversation not long after their baby daughter was born – and the mother says to the father, “If she has your nose, she’s going to get surgery.” Sounds too way out there? Not if you’re in Venezuela, say researchers from the Central University of Venezuela.
Venezuala has the honor (?) of holding the most international beauty pageant winners in the world. The women are known for their beauty – but a lot of that beauty is created, not natural. Of course, this isn’t unusual, cosmetic surgery to enlarge breasts, “fix” eyes, remove sags, and to make other so-called improvements aren’t unusual, even in the beauty pageant world. But it seems that Venezuala may have the corner on the market when it comes to expectations that the women will have surgery to be as beautiful as possible, whether they can afford it or not.
Women feel that the surgery is so important that they’ll do just about anything to finance their procedure be it using credit cards or even downsizing their home. The need for cosmetic surgery is so pervasive that families begin talking about it at a young age and some surgeries, like breast enhancements are even considered a right of passage. A plastic surgeon quoted in this article, Using your plastic for plastic surgery.., says that three or four out of every seven Venezualan women have breast augmentation.
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