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Liposculpture, Health, and Body Image Issues

HeyMister | Nov 3, 2009 |

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I'm a counselor. I specialize in working with young teenager girls. This means I get to learn firsthand quite a bit about what the average teenage girl thinks about her body. I'm amazed at the effect that the media has on these girls, almost like holding a leash right to their necks.

The amount of pressure these young girls experience to look thing and look their best is just - well, it's not like it was when I was a kid, that's for sure.!

Recently, I had a girl come to me who told me she not only was going to get liposculpture on her thighs soon, but that she'd already had one surgery a year ago! This surgery was targeting her waist. Evidently, even though she wears a small enough dress size already that many women would kill for, she wanted to be even thinner.

Her parents are supportive - who else is paying for this? - and they must be anyway, since you have to get consent to operate on someone so young, and the consent can't come from the minority girl her self.

Anyhow, I was surprised to see girls so young getting cosmetic surgery!

This wasn't like going in for a manicure or getting your hair done. It involves scapels, body parts, and removing fat with a knife and gloves!

It was a fine line trying to counsel her on body image issues knowing that she has the money, support, and ability to get these surgeries. It doesn't make any sense to me why her parents would support such a thing!

Liposculpture surgery isn't bad in and of itself, but when girls who are 15 feel so much pressure that they are able to get a doctor to operate on them to remove fat from their already skinny little waist; well, I hold my head in shame at the parents, and wonder what it is I could possibly do to reach them. It's a tough job, to say the least.