To wonder how you can have £50k of facial surgery and not have some sort of identity crisis?

[AngeloMysterioso]

There’s a girl on Geordie Shore who has had £50k of cosmetic surgery and now looks like a totally different person. I mean it’s a whole new face. It’s got me wondering- I know that it’s gradual and has been done over time but still... I can’t imagine looking in the mirror at a reflection that’s so vastly different from the face I was born and grew up with. By choice. However unhappy she may have been with her appearance beforehand, surely there’s some sort of psychological impact that goes beyond “Yay!! I have big lips now!”??

Both those women looked much prettier before all the modifications. It was a waste of money in my opinion, but if it makes vain, insecure women happy to have identikit faces and lips that look like they've gone into anaphylactic shock, then they can knock themselves out. I hope it's given what they were hoping for.

They both look better in the before pics. I wonder how they manage to deceive themselves that they don't just look like people with false faces?
I reckon once surgery is done, it'd be hard to say to someone that they looked worse so maybe they just accept the 'kind' responses and believe them.

This is really extreme but I kinda get it. I regularly change my look - hair colour, length, style, I have spent a fortune on glasses each time I decide I want to look like someone else, I spend more than I should on beauty products trying to get a smooth, wrinkle free, younger looking face with perfect eyebrows, perfect make up, whiter teeth. I buy products I don't understand (I've several blushes and a highlighter stick I've no clue what to do with) all because I hate what I see when I look in the mirror. Different influences, different income bracket, different approach to life might well have seen me under the knife trying to get my face right.
It's sad because at least all the crap I do to try and change my face is reversible (bar the damage to my bank balance!)

In both of those pictures she looks nothing like 22.

She just looks like annidentikit ‘worked on’ face. Much prettier before.

It makes these young women look much older as well.

I can understand why mature women may succumb to fillers and done well they can be great and virtually undetectable. Done badly is another story altogether....

But why attractive, fresher faced young women want to make themselves look like Ivana Trump, Jackie Stallone and Donatella Versace I will never understand.

My xh had a lot of facial surgery before I met him. He had ishoos, big time. Doesn't have to have been abuse but someone who wants to do hefty surgery to themselves has got problems. It's expensive self harm IMO.

No idea who she is but am baffled as to why perfectly nice-looking young women are doing this to themselves .... so ugly and no doubt they will continue in the same manner. Can't have much self-esteem, and probably a bit thick so looks are literally everything to them.

It seems to be almost an epidemic amongst reality tv girls. This is another Geordie Shore one

I find it quite unnerving.

Women bitching about other women’s looks. You should be ashamed.

I wonder if they sought treatment overseas, where perhaps it’s easier to get around ethics issues.

TheFaerie
From what I see this thread isn’t bitching about women’s looks.

This is a discussion about the tragedy of cosmetic surgery, external (generally misogynistic) influences and sadness some of us feel about young women in the prime of life with body dysmorphia.

I don’t see why posters should be ashamed.

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/susie-orbach-on-womens-bodies-and-why-the-panic-about-gender-is-disturbing-qrhq9nfpk?shareToken=58bd99b5f440d0ccc5be1d8fad2e1156

In 2009 in Bodies Orbach addressed the pressure on women (and increasingly men) not just to be slender, but to be “perfect”. Via obsessive grooming, diets and the normalisation of plastic surgery we could mould ourselves into what has become the international female ideal: the bosomy Barbie doll.

“We have swapped the body politic for the politics of the body,” Orbach wrote. “The right body is trumpeted as a way of belonging in our world today.”

Wow at having £50k to spend on surgery aged 22!

She was very beautiful before though.

I think it’s really sad. Hasn’t the first one also had extensive body surgery?

Where did the trend come from? They don’t look younger or prettier just fake.

Surely this guy has a disorder & shouldn’t be treated on.

Why I look back at my teen self I am amazed I thought I wasn’t a looker. I was young and reasonably symmetrical, no model but basically pretty. Diddnt warrant the hours of face masks, plucking and styling. But what if I’d gone under the knife? What kind of regret that you never know your true adult face. Melodramatic maybe but my co worker has just had a boob job, she’s just 20, I can’t fully explain my problem with it.

I have reverse body dismorphia and think I look way better than I actually do. It is enabled by my never having time to look in a mirror...

I think extreme cosmetic surgery looks kind of fascinating.
I do think its a shame that there is such pressure to look in a certain ways. Especially amongst the young. I think the pressure is far more than I remember as a teenager, and the looks are much more extreme, and the fact theyre all about surgery and injectables, and microblading and invasive procedures is a bit of a worry. I really hope my daughter doesnt feel such pressure

Are those fake abs on that guy?

Kylie Jenner completely ruined her looks in the same way. She's only 20. I think she'll have a serious mental break down in a few years time, she always seems really unhappy compared to her sisters. I can see her going the same way as her brother.

Just goes to show that life isn't always better with lots of money.

I do wonder what these celebs will look like in 10-20+ years time. If they've had this much work done in their twenties, what the hell will they do in their thirties & forties?!