Boob job - new lease of life or sad capitulation to meeja images of women?

[sibdoms]

Just wondered what you all thought.
I am of the latter opinion but seem to be increasingly in minority around here, where several of my acquaintance have gone on re-norkage holidays this summer.

I just think of the pain

Watched a prog the other day with old folks having surgery - crazy!

Hmmm, I'd be after a reduction/uplift personally but if I was having anything done it would probably be an abdominoplasty but I struggle with the concept of major surgery for vanity's sake and would be scared of the health implications of implants.

sad capitulation.

honestly, what the hell does it matter what size your tits are? unless they are vast of course, I completely understand reduction surgery. augmentation though.... nope. beyond me!

Sad, I think. I think sometimes people opt for plastic surgery because they think it will solve a host of problems in their lives, but of course it doesn't. And it's major surgery, with lots of risks, but because it's so widely available, I think the perception is that it's just a 'nip and tuck'. I know someone who had a boob job and lipo and now is just as unhappy as she used to be, but poorer.

lets not forget olivia goldsmith died having liposuction (she wrote the first wives club).

I couldn't bear my children thinking "oh for god's sake, she died having PLASTIC SURGERY??? How bloody selfish"

I often think that, too. What a bloody waste of life.

lol at "re-norkage holidays".
none of my acquaintances have done it to my knowledge. maybe it's time for a move?

(you may gather from that that i am firmly in the sad capitulation camp)

Before I had Ds3 I hated my boobs. They were just empty flaps of useless skin and totally flat if I laid on my back. I think if someone had offered to pay I would have had them done.

After I had him, I really couldn't care less. The were just a baggy and empty but I jsut didn't care.

I have to admit ATM I am loving the fact that I'n heaving out of a 34DD with the PG boobs. 34DD pert boobs too...I've never seen such a sight

What if the risks were fewer? FI if you could have it done under local anaesthetic? Would you then? (Still in sad capitulation camp personally but voila.)

The saddest thing of all is that so many young teenagers adore airhead 'celebs' like Victoria Beckham and Paris Hilton, and think that the only way to be truly happy and beautiful is to be skeletally thin with huge fake knockers. You've got to be pretty confident in yourself these days not to fall prey to the curse of millions of airbrushed pictures of models.

this site has lots of celeb examples

sibdoms - are your acquaintances pleased with their results?

i wouldn't because people who i have seen in rl with them look dis-proportioned. i also think how would you explain to your children, when they grow up won't they want the same thing?

I used to work with a girl (who was slim, perfectly proportioned, nowt wrong with her at all) who had a boob job so she'd "look nice on my wedding day". No word of a lie. Complete madness.

There ARE people who have surgery and don't go mental with the size of their implants. Courtney Cox-Arquette is a case in point.

FWIW, I wouldn't have them enlarged (don't feel the need to as a natural 32E/F cup), but I woould possibly consider having them lifted if/when they droop beyond recognition.

But Courtney is another woman who is the size of a twiglet, so she has to have implants to stop her looking like a skinny boy. If she were a normal weight, she wouldn't have to have surgery.

Ahem, there are 'normal' shaped women all over the country, nay the world, who have very, very small breasts that look out of proportion. It isn't just the super-skinny minnies.

I want a reduction, general prettifying when I am done babying. They hurt.

sad capitulation, definitely. Unless you actually cant walk of course.

Im fairly ugly, and have often wondered what it would be like to be beautiful, but there are so much more worthwhile things to spend my money on.

You're right, of course, NdP, but I think the obsession with insane skinniness in Hollywood and the fashion industry generally has helped to create real insecurity in modern women, so super skinny celebs who have surgery to conform just make me sad. I know that plastic surgery can really help in some cases, and you don't always end up like Jordan, but I think it's often taken lightly and for the wrong reasons.

fistfull! don't call yourself fairly ugly bet you're not

They are all pleased - no horror stories, no lopsided aberrations - and of the "I wasn't doing it for anyone else just for myself" school of thought. But they don't fool me..........

I get very squeamish with cosmetic surgery - well, surgery of any kind. But then I have enormous bazooms, so maybe I am just glib and smug.

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lol southeastastra, Most people in any room are prettier than me. Doesnt bother me too much. It bothers me far more that I missed 10 years from age 17-27 through being depressed.

I've had breast enlargement. I was 30AA before getting pregnant with DS and went up to 32DD while pregnant/feeding. I LOVED my new breasts. Up until then I had always thought that if I could snap my fingers and have slightly larger breasts - great but that i would never in a million years have surgery.
But after actually having larger breasts and thoroughly enjoying them, I decided to have surgery. I had my second child 3 years after the surgery and I still love my breasts. They move like natural breasts, shake/flatten/wiggle and everything else like natural ones and I dont regret my decision.

But, and it's quite a big But, I do look back now and think how stupid I was to undergo major surgery just for a cosmetic reason.