Is 18 Too Young for Cosmetic Surgery?
Ambah Young is an 18 year old from Australia. She’s got a two year old daughter and a body image issue. As is common after child birth, her body just isn’t the way she wants it to look anymore and she doesn’t feel like she has the body of someone her age. She says that she wants to reclaim her youth, and the easiest way to do that is to alter her body. Exercise wasn’t giving her the results she wanted and she feels that the surgical corrections will help her get ahead in life.
According to the Australian College of Cosmetic Surgery, it has become common for young women to travel overseas to have these procedures done. In Ambah’s case, she intends to go to Malaysia.
John Flynn, the surgery chief executive at the Australian College of Cosmetic Surgery is unsure that these procedures are an appropriate measure for someone as young as her. He said, “She’s probably quite vulnerable in many ways and I think the medical service owes her a duty of care to make sure that the procedures she’s planning to be done are appropriate and there’s a big question mark over that.” Above and beyond whether or not the surgeries are appropriate, when a person undergoes multiple procedures, the likelihood of complications is greatly increased.
Ambah is using a service dedicated to this type of trip called “Gorgeous Getaways,” one company among a whole budding industry devoted to assisting people in overseas trips to undergo cosmetic surgery.
Ambah is expecting to have a tummy tuck done, as well as breast augmentation and other procedures. The total cost of her surgeries will come to roughly thirteen thousand dollars. A friend lent her the money.
This article raises the question: How young is too young to undergo cosmetic surgery? Now, on the one hand, after the birth of her daughter her stomach was stretched out and the skin lost its elasticity, leaving her with a flap of skin hanging above her waist that diet and exercise couldn’t fix. If she was just going to have that taken care of, that’s understandable. However, the breast augmentation and various other procedures are only for cosmetic purposes that don’t deal with the main issue she’s having. 18 years old is very young to be making these kinds of decisions and even if every precaution is taken during the procedures, complications could occur, some of which could be potentially fatal. With a two year old daughter at home, is it even worth it to risk your life over things that really shouldn’t matter?
The problem is that sometimes people hear about celebrities having cosmetic surgery done and they begin to think that it’s commonplace, that everyone does it, and that the inherent dangers are no longer present. It creates a dangerous situation.
To read the original article, please go to http://www.news.com.au/national/year-old-ambah-young-has-cosmetic-surgery-to-feel-young-again/story-e6frfkvr-1225877308611