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The Causes And Effects Of Plastic Surgery

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As of the past several years, there seems to be a more socially accepted phenomena, essentially making it so that we can change any imperfection we have with plastic surgery. Seems easy enough, right? Everything we are insecure about goes away with a few dollars and some downtime. Who wouldn't want that?

Plastic surgery was something that always phased me as being the end of the road, the final, and inevitable, solution. Even as an eleven-year old girl, barely in middle school, I can recall this obsession I had with being critical about my appearance. Through picking apart my body to scrutinizing every facial feature, I was compelled by this idea of "perfection". And while I had my major insecurities, there was always one big standout- my nose.

I never had a large nose to begin with. Looking back on pictures when I was in my early childhood to elementary years, my nose always seemed normal, average sized. But when I reached the sixth grade, something changed. I didn't quite notice it at first, but my family did; my nose grew. At this time, I didn't quite grasp the idea that our bodies develop up until the age of adolescence, so it never occurred to me that I would have to worry about a change in my appearance.

What may seem surprising is that my nose didn't necessarily bother me at first. When looking at it from the front, staring in the mirror as per usual, it still looked pretty normal. Maybe a bit longer, but certainly nothing worth fixating about. However, my family got the full 360 effect. They saw me at every angle during every moment, and they certainly noticed a change that I simply hadn't. Names started being thrown around, with comments referring to my nose as looking "bulbous" and like a "jelly-roll". The bump on my nose, medically referred to as a "deviated septum" was always another topic of discussion. And we can't forget the classic Pinocchio joke thrown around! They never intended it to affect my confidence in the way that it had, and I truly believe that, but it just happened to be the thing that was picked on whenever we got in our childish arguments, and it was the thing I held onto the most.

I don't quite remember when I became fascinated with the idea of changing my nose by undergoing

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