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By Kristen Hammerich
IV Leader Columnist, Feb. 4, 2010
When people talk about plastic, my mind refers back to the “Mean Girls” movie from 2004. The “plastics” from that movie were three girls who were beautiful, popular, and seemingly perfect. It has been almost six years since that movie was released, and since then “plastic” has become a new meaning.
Recent statistics show that over the last decade plastic surgery has tripled, especially in teenagers. That’s so ridiculous! I know that we live in a celebrity ridden world, with diet fads and stick-thin models, but why must all these young girls sell into that? It raises a red-flag.
I typed in plastic surgery into a search engine and tons of stories popped up. There is an 18-year-old girl
who got breast implants for her high school graduation present from her parents. HUH!? Yep. She said she didn’t feel like a women if they weren’t bigger.
Another story that I found was the new cover of PEOPLE magazine: Heidi Montag. A couple years back, when she was on the Hills she got breast implants. Now she is doing up to 10 different surgery’s a day. For Example: re-placing her ears, liposuction, and up to a DD cup. I can’t believe a story like that would be world-news.
Think people, think. Young women now-a-days need to cherish what they have. No one is perfect, and no one really looks like their picture in a magazine or up on a billboard. We all have flaws and that makes us our own person! I sure don’t want to be someone else. We were all made the way we were for a reason.