Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all?
According to a 2019 study by the International Master Course in Aging, 18-34 year-olds now have more recourse to cosmetic surgery than the 50-60 age group.
Cosmetic surgery is becoming more commonplace every day, with the influence of reality TV and the quest for perfection, conveyed by social networks.
The only watchword: Be beautiful and shut up!
We can see it clearly on Instagram, with the constant use of filters, people no longer appear natural.
This mirror effect is amplified by these pseudo stars of the small screen, who do not hesitate to promote or extol the merits of their interventions while at the same time doing product placement, with the advertising made for their surgeons.
Take for example Kim Kardashian and her whole clique.
With each new season of their show, they always appear a little more transformed. Some no longer even have their original features, everything is static, empty, without expressions.
The cult of superficiality par excellence
This drift is called dysmorphia, a term used when one is convinced of having a physical defect that does not exist, and one focuses on it.
But this race for the ideal has a price.
The mimicry of these starlets even leads to the use of bank loans to finance these interventions and thus to get into debt for years.
Knowing that these young fans do not live with the same means as these influencers, earning for their part, hundreds of thousands of euros per month and therefore spending on an intervention as one would buy a pair of jeans.
Operations are increasingly being carried out on young people.
Barely having finished puberty, these people are already looking to modify their bodies.
Breast augmentation at 18, botox at 25, or this obsession with having THE perfect body.
The most common operations: the Brazilian Butt Lift (BBL) or buttock augmentation by using fat taken from elsewhere on the body to reimplant it in the posterior. Lip plumping is also all the rage, hence the resurgence of these never-ending duck faces everywhere.
Moreover, in recent days, a reality TV starlet, seen regularly on TV shows Marseilles and a big fan of cosmetic surgery, Maéva Ghennam, has once again made headlines.
Latest operation to her credit: a rejuvenation of her vagina (I didn't even know that existed yet).
But what caused a stir were her shocking remarks regarding her vagina as "beautiful, as if she were 12 years old" … Despite his apologies since then, the damage is done, and multiple mockeries have already made the rounds on the web.
Reflection of a generation born with social networks and a distorted self-image.
