Plastic Love
February 8th, 2006 -- Posted in people | 4 Comments »My wife asked me last night if I thought this girl blogger, whose interview and picture she saw published in Her World magazine, looked like she went for plastic surgery. I pointed out (after recognizing the name) that she was the same girl whose blog site I’ve shown to her before, and she had even asked me that same question. So it was beyond doubt about it.
The question now is: does she admit if she did? According to the magazine, she denied.
In the real world today, denial of having gone for a nose job is worse than the fact itself. Plastic surgery is today very widely practiced and thus should be widely accepted… so let’s be open-minded about it. I’m not encouraging plastic surgery. I’m more discouraging having to lie when the truth can be obvious to the naked eyes. If one has to engage in plastic surgery to enhance facial or body features to gain self-confidence, he/she should then at least have the courage to admit it.
Now this brings about the question of how an individual, with such need to endure surgical pains and spending large amount of money just to build some self-confidence, can have enough guts to admit that this was the fact? Logical thinking would equate such need as a sign of the lack of guts or dignity to stand tall in the way they look. For those who deny the lack of guts and insist that it was just an ‘enhancement’, then there must be some abnormal level of narcissism in the personality… the need to elevate oneself above others by means of beauty (of natural or unnatural means) to stand out in the crowd.
So which is which now? Plastic surgery or plastic personality?
Sunsun pointed out the thought that if an artiste who had plastic surgery were to open about his/her surgery, the general crowd would follow his/her openness about it and might even be interested in how successful the surgery is or who the great surgeon was. On the contrary, if denying the surgery, the usual public reaction would be rather negatively focused at the personality. The words and intention of the artiste would be questioned more than the act.
Imagine such denial from a famous artiste. People talk about it for a while then it will become an old story. Which other famous entertainer has demonstrated this better than MJ? A star will always be a star, a sub-imaginative figure created in the limelight for the masses yet forever hard to reach. Now will this happen to someone who is a nobody? Not likely. But it clearly shows the magnitude of narcissism and egocentrism that do not have the protective limelight professional artistes have to screen off from the public.
Would I date one who had plastic surgery? Yes, why not? But would I like someone who had one but denies it? Absolutely not. Plastic in the cover is endurable, but plastic to the core is toxic.
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DISCLAIMER: I do not know the girl blogger in person. The above opinions are just casual remarks based from the perspective of a third person and are not at all directed at the subject on any personal reason.
