Plastic Surgery...Is It Really Wrong?

Gao Ia Vang
Osborn University High School Graduate/MSU Freshman

The cost of plastic surgery is expensive and yet many people pay thousands of dollars to “renew” themselves. Many people view plastic surgery as a negative thing to be done upon one self. They say natural beauty is the best kind of beauty and define people who have done plastic surgeries as fakes, but I disagree. Is it really a crime to want to be beautiful? Not everybody is born with that natural beauty and in this world, let’s face it, everybody wants to be pretty.
Girls are more pressured and insecure about their looks than boys. Why else would we have those numerous amounts of makeup and Botox being marketing directly at us? If the world and the media wasn’t so judgmental and obsess with looks, everybody would be happy. Sadly, that’s not the case. In the media, looks are everything. There, it’s portraying that only “pretty perfect” people make it big when in fact, it’s not.
I see plastic surgery as another way, or for even some people, a chance to become beautiful. For example, what if someone had been born with a deformation that affected their daily lives? It’s true that it’s the personality that counts and not the looks but it’s not fair when people are pointed out to be made fun of because their nose had been “too big” or if their eyes had been “too small.” Anybody has the right to be happy and if choosing to do plastic surgery satisfies their happiness, let them be.