Fat in Your Waist and in Your Breasts

Plastic surgery is a medium that does not flaunt itself the way its recipients do. In fact, there are many who would never reveal their “beauty secrets,” but would be more than happy to reveal their post-surgery bodies. According to the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, the two most popular cosmetic surgical procedures performed in the last few years have been breast implants and liposuction. In other words, we live in a country that spends $10 billion a year trying to get either bigger or smaller. Apparently, no size is just right. Well, unless the fat is in the exact place you want it.

This obsession we have with size would be easier to understand if it was overall size. However, it is not that at all. As the statistics show with boob jobs and liposuctions, there is a strong desire to be small in some areas while larger in others. We want smaller thighs, larger eyes, tighter butts, bigger busts, thinner hips, larger lips. This obsession with size is entirely unhealthy, but it has become a medium in itself. This distorted image of beauty now serves as our way of expressing ourselves. Forget our personalities and opinions; if we don’t have the bra size to match our brain, we might as well give up.

When we do discover that someone had plastic surgery, the thought that they are insecure individuals is overshadowed by the thought that they are wealthy people whose looks are their livelihoods. Therefore, we have this idea that bigger boobs and smaller waists equal a disciplined person with a fat wallet, pun unintended. It has come to a point where we see our bodies as customizable commodities that can get the fat sucked out of it and then be injected with silicone.

There should be no surprise that this dichotomy of needing to be big and small at the same time causes self-image issues for the youth.

Silicone Implants

“We must, we must, we must increase our bust...the bigger the better, the tighter the sweater, the boys depend on us. “