Adolescence is a time where a person is mostly very idealistic – sometimes to the point of being unrealistic - about himself/herself. And in a world where stick-thin teen models dressed like goddesses are being worshipped by the general adolescent population, the average teenager could hardly be blamed for wanting to change some part of his/her self by getting a plastic surgery.
According to Erik Erikson’s Stages of Psychosocial Development, adolescence is a combination or synthesis of a person’s childhood and an introduction to or anticipation of the role he must play in adulthood. It often results to a role confusion or identity crisis, which then pushes teens to look for their identities in other people.
This makes average teens very easily influenced by movies, TV shows and glossy magazines. Coming up with unrealistic and ridiculous ideas of what they should be or what they should look like only magnifies when they see people their age in these shows and magazines.
Ignoring the fact that these picture-perfect teen models and actresses had to go through hours of
professional make-up before being photographed (not to mention the number of hours of professional photo editing), the average teenage girl who is in the middle of an identity crisis would think that looking exactly like these teen models can make her as someone who fits with society’s standards. But when she looks at herself and realizes that a part of her face or body doesn’t fit with the standards, she often looks for solutions, things to make herself fit in. And what better and permanent quick fix than to get a plastic surgery?
About 244,000 cosmetic surgeries were done on teens from 2000 to 2006 (according to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons). The most popular procedures are the rhinoplasty (nose lift) and mammaplasty (breast augmentation).
Most of these surgeries were done on graduation season – which makes us think that today’s graduation gifts are not anymore confined to getting a first car or a plane ticket to Paris.
Teens are often unaware of how dangerous these surgeries can be. Hundreds and hundreds of lives have been lost to cosmetic surgeries caused by medical malpractices and even suicide (due to being psychologically unprepared of the sudden changes in their body).
Needless to say, teens (and parents) who are willing to spend thousands on plastic surgeries are often those who feel insecure about themselves and their children. But then again, when you’re living in a superficial society and surrounded with billboards of impossibly beautiful actresses and teen models ... who wouldn’t feel insecure in one way or another?
So who’s to blame about the obviously damaging and potentially lethal level of insecurity that teens feel nowadays? Is it the media? The society? The home these teens grew up in?... To that, we know no definite answer.
This makes average teens very easily influenced by movies, TV shows and glossy magazines. Coming up with unrealistic and ridiculous ideas of what they should be or what they should look like only magnifies when they see people their age in these shows and magazines.
Ignoring the fact that these picture-perfect teen models and actresses had to go through hours of
professional make-up before being photographed (not to mention the number of hours of professional photo editing), the average teenage girl who is in the middle of an identity crisis would think that looking exactly like these teen models can make her as someone who fits with society’s standards. But when she looks at herself and realizes that a part of her face or body doesn’t fit with the standards, she often looks for solutions, things to make herself fit in. And what better and permanent quick fix than to get a plastic surgery?
About 244,000 cosmetic surgeries were done on teens from 2000 to 2006 (according to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons). The most popular procedures are the rhinoplasty (nose lift) and mammaplasty (breast augmentation).
Most of these surgeries were done on graduation season – which makes us think that today’s graduation gifts are not anymore confined to getting a first car or a plane ticket to Paris.
Teens are often unaware of how dangerous these surgeries can be. Hundreds and hundreds of lives have been lost to cosmetic surgeries caused by medical malpractices and even suicide (due to being psychologically unprepared of the sudden changes in their body).
Needless to say, teens (and parents) who are willing to spend thousands on plastic surgeries are often those who feel insecure about themselves and their children. But then again, when you’re living in a superficial society and surrounded with billboards of impossibly beautiful actresses and teen models ... who wouldn’t feel insecure in one way or another?
So who’s to blame about the obviously damaging and potentially lethal level of insecurity that teens feel nowadays? Is it the media? The society? The home these teens grew up in?... To that, we know no definite answer.
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