Cosmetic Surgery Research Paper
Michael Jackson, Demi Moore, Sharon Osborne, Cher, Pamela Anderson, Bruce Jenner, Joan Rivers, and Janice Dickinson are all guilty of going under the knife. Stars today portray a picture perfect image of how everyone should look, but is it really worth it? To some, yes it is, but when you weigh the pros and cons it really is not worth it. What really is beauty, and why are people so obsessed with it? These days there is a cosmetic procedure to fix any kind of issue that someone thinks they need to have, anything ranging from getting cosmetic dentistry work to getting liposuction. Today, people are under the impression that they have to do whatever it takes to be “perfect” even if that means going through extensive cosmetic surgery. People should embrace who they are for what God made them to be.
A celebrity is who everyone admires and what everyone dreams of becoming, but is it really that glamorous? “Part of why beauty is so important to humans is that one depth perception allows us to see and recognize that other humans are watching us” (Kuczynski, 2006, p.104). For most of today’s leading Hollywood stars they have received some sort of cosmetic procedure to enhance their already beautiful looks. On the show the Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency, which broadcasts on Oxygen, Janice underwent a tummy tuck on national television. On the television show The Housewives of the Real Orange Country, it showed the ladies having a party at a doctor’s office and they all received a Botox treatment. An episode of MTV’s True Life did an episode on “I Want a Famous Face”, “in which teenagers and people in their twenties described to a surgeon who they wanted to look like” (Kuczynski, 2006, p.111). “A twenty-three-year-old transsexual named Jessica wanted to look like Jennifer Lopez, so she got breast implants, cheek implants, and an eyebrow lift and had her hairline lowered” (Kuczynski, 2006, p.111). Other people who were featured on this episode was a pair of twenty-year- old
A celebrity is who everyone admires and what everyone dreams of becoming, but is it really that glamorous? “Part of why beauty is so important to humans is that one depth perception allows us to see and recognize that other humans are watching us” (Kuczynski, 2006, p.104). For most of today’s leading Hollywood stars they have received some sort of cosmetic procedure to enhance their already beautiful looks. On the show the Janice Dickinson Modeling Agency, which broadcasts on Oxygen, Janice underwent a tummy tuck on national television. On the television show The Housewives of the Real Orange Country, it showed the ladies having a party at a doctor’s office and they all received a Botox treatment. An episode of MTV’s True Life did an episode on “I Want a Famous Face”, “in which teenagers and people in their twenties described to a surgeon who they wanted to look like” (Kuczynski, 2006, p.111). “A twenty-three-year-old transsexual named Jessica wanted to look like Jennifer Lopez, so she got breast implants, cheek implants, and an eyebrow lift and had her hairline lowered” (Kuczynski, 2006, p.111). Other people who were featured on this episode was a pair of twenty-year- old
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