Should Teenagers Be Allowed To Get Plastic Surgery
Should Teenagers Be Allowed to Get Plastic Surgery?
“Beauty isn’t about having a pretty face. It’s about having a pretty mind, a pretty heart, and a pretty soul” (Anonymous 1). This quote reflects what type of beauty really matter in life; it is showing that people might not like others appearances on the outside, but they have real beauty on the inside that can’t shine through. With this generation of teenagers, we are always worried about the wrong type of beauty, the outside but we should be focused on the inside. Teens are judging on appearances so most teens are getting self-conscious over their looks. That is where Dr. Romo comes in the picture. Dr. Romo is the head of the Little Baby Face Foundation, a foundation which gives cost free plastic surgeries to teens with deformities. Dr. Romo works to give teenagers a new face to help them feel better about themselves, and this isn’t right! It isn’t right that teens feel that …show more content…
Teenagers are getting plastic surgery to fix their deformities instead of learning to cope with their flaws. These teens that are getting these surgeries are ruining a potentially great thing they could do for others struggling with similar deformities to them. For example, a teen named Donovan was getting bullied at school because he didn’t have a pronounced chin, so he applied for the Little Baby Face Foundation but was sadly declined because it was cosmetic. Even though he wasn’t accepted, Donovan has since passed out bully awareness bracelets and even said, “Keeping my chin gave me a stronger voice” (Donovan 6). If all of the teens shown in the Little Baby Face Foundation video would have skipped the surgery and just stood up to bullying like Donovan, imagine the voice that could spread from real teens that have experienced these deformities and the disappointments that come with them
“Beauty isn’t about having a pretty face. It’s about having a pretty mind, a pretty heart, and a pretty soul” (Anonymous 1). This quote reflects what type of beauty really matter in life; it is showing that people might not like others appearances on the outside, but they have real beauty on the inside that can’t shine through. With this generation of teenagers, we are always worried about the wrong type of beauty, the outside but we should be focused on the inside. Teens are judging on appearances so most teens are getting self-conscious over their looks. That is where Dr. Romo comes in the picture. Dr. Romo is the head of the Little Baby Face Foundation, a foundation which gives cost free plastic surgeries to teens with deformities. Dr. Romo works to give teenagers a new face to help them feel better about themselves, and this isn’t right! It isn’t right that teens feel that …show more content…
Teenagers are getting plastic surgery to fix their deformities instead of learning to cope with their flaws. These teens that are getting these surgeries are ruining a potentially great thing they could do for others struggling with similar deformities to them. For example, a teen named Donovan was getting bullied at school because he didn’t have a pronounced chin, so he applied for the Little Baby Face Foundation but was sadly declined because it was cosmetic. Even though he wasn’t accepted, Donovan has since passed out bully awareness bracelets and even said, “Keeping my chin gave me a stronger voice” (Donovan 6). If all of the teens shown in the Little Baby Face Foundation video would have skipped the surgery and just stood up to bullying like Donovan, imagine the voice that could spread from real teens that have experienced these deformities and the disappointments that come with them