To be beautiful and perfect is the way life should be, right? Everyone loves you and envies you, and you love yourself and everything is great. Or so one would think. A lot of the world’s self-obsessed goal of physical perfection, especially among women, stems from the celebrities we see smeared across magazine covers and prancing around reality TV shows.
One gem among these celebrities, Heidi Montag, has epitomized the aspiration of perfection with her latest surgical renovations. The ‘Hills’ reality TV star recently underwent 10 procedures to transform her good-looking original self into a completely unidentifiable self, somewhat similar to…a porn star. With DDD implants, a nose job, lipo in her neck (what???), thighs, and other areas the girl has taken plastic surgery to a whole new level.
She lays her insecurities to blame.
Stars.com reports Heidi saying, “Whatever women need to do to feel sexy, they should do.” About her appearance before she said: “I’ve always been very insecure about my body. My whole life, I looked at my chest and was like, OK, they’re going to grow. This is my year! And it never happened. I was less than an A-cup. I wore pushup bras, which cut into my skin. If I was with a guy and there was a girl next to me with big boobs, I would be like, Oh, my God, he’s looking at her! On the beach, if I was standing next to a girl with big boobs, I’d be like, I hate her! I hated my nose too. I have my dad’s nose, which is huge. It took up so much of my face, when I looked down, I could see my nose. I couldn’t get away from it!”
The sad truth is every person has parts of themselves they hate, and we curse the world because we weren’t graced with long slender legs and six-pack abs. When people with disposable income go under the knife when they’re having a fat neck day, the effect goes beyond their own mirror.
Young girls in line with their mothers at grocery stores see People Magazine and OK! Magazine and have this idea that, “Oh this is what I should look like when I grow up.” But it’s not reality. From a young age, we are trained to see these “icons” as perfection we should strive for, and if we fail, we need some sort of surgical augmentation to get us there.
Yes, these people are beautiful and my god, we’d all love to roll out of bed and look like Heidi Klum. But frankly, some of us can’t afford 10 procedures in one day – financially and pain-wise. And more importantly, we should be looking beyond ourselves when considering such drastic self-destruction. The decisions we make often have a lasting effect on young impressionable, and simply insecure people around us. And by “we” I mostly mean celebrities in this case.
I am curious to know what Heidi thinks when she looks in the mirror now. I would cry. I would be so sad because the girl who came out of surgery that day is completely unrecognizable from the girl we recently saw parading around with Spencer (gag) on ‘The Hills.’
Obviously it is easier said than done to look in the mirror and say, hey not too bad. But if you’re that unhappy with your body hit the gym, go for a walk or strap on one of those ab belts that supposedly gives you a six-pack while you sit on the couch with a pack of Twinkies.
And if your body issues aren’t curable at the gym, maybe you need to reevaluate the crowd you roll with. Don’t hang out with people who make you feel bad about your nose or some birthmark you have on your face or whatever. A person who is confident and happy with who they are is much sexier and more admirable than someone who injects silicone into one part of the body and sucks fat out of another.
Ok, I should probably hit the gym now.
Una Bella Vita 
