Bridal Plasty.

[Leslie Anne]

Originally Posted by honeychile

"Any woman who hasn't considered it at some point in her life is probably lying."

I think you're probably right.

Originally Posted by Chicago88

My problem with the show is that teens watch these channels and I feel it sends the wrong message to young girls who are especially vulnerable at that age.

This is my problem with the show too. I grew up in an area of Los Angeles that is very concerned with physical appearance. I had a nose job when I was 14 years old. Looking back, I can't believe my parents let me do that. But, the same surgeon who did my nose did my mother's nose and sister's nose. My mother also had an eye lift, my sister wants liposuction and her ears pinned back, I want my nose fixed (it's not quite perfect) and several other things done. It's crazy. It was just been beaten into our brains that beauty and perfection outweigh almost everything else.

I hate seeing young girls going down that road. What I've learned is that often no amount of plastic surgery will be enough.

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by Leslie Anne

I think you're probably right.

No, plastic surgery isn't a part of every woman's reality. Across cultures, I wouldn't even say that it is a part of the average woman's reality. It is quite disturbing that you and honeychile think that it is; and that's one reason why a dumb show like Bridalplasty would exist.

Originally Posted by Leslie Anne

This is my problem with the show too. I grew up in an area of Los Angeles that is very concerned with physical appearance. I had a nose job when I was 14 years old. Looking back, I can't believe my parents let me do that. But, the same surgeon who did my nose did my mother's nose and sister's nose. My mother also had an eye lift, my sister wants liposuction and her ears pinned back, I want my nose fixed (it's not quite perfect) and several other things done. It's crazy. It was just been beaten into our brains that beauty and perfection outweigh almost everything else.

I hate seeing young girls going down that road. What I've learned is that often no amount of plastic surgery will be enough.

I find this to be extremely sad.

[preciousjeni]

Originally Posted by honeychile

I answered, "Any woman who hasn't considered it at some point in her life is probably lying."

[Chicago88]

Im not against plastic surgery. My mom had a nose job because she broke it as a child and it wasn't fixed properly the first time. I'm all for anything that is going to make you a little more confident in your appearance but when its taken to an extreme i e Heidi Montag then thats when a line needs to be drawn. My problem with the show is that teens watch these channels and I feel it sends the wrong message to young girls who are especially vulnerable at that age.

[xomanadaxo]

I think there's a big difference between considering plastic surgery and seriously considering plastic surgery. I've had days where I've looked in the mirror and disliked something about my physical appearance; I may have even wondered what I would look like if I had plastic surgery to correct it. However, just because I have considered it before does not mean I would necessarily do it.

I see value in plastic surgery for correcting serious physical deformities (eg after an accident), or even for someone who has been self-conscious about some feature their entire lives. While ideally I would hope that people could be confident with their appearances as-is, I also don't think it's fair to judge people who chose surgery. It's such a personal choice, and people's beliefs about it are often strongly influenced by their local culture. For example based on my understanding of Leslie Anne's post, she grew up in a culture where plastic surgery was the norm. A 14-year-old getting a nose job would be unheard of where I grew up, but it may be perfectly normal for her hometown.

To put it in a different perspective...
I had really bad buckteeth as a child...cartoon character bad. They stuck out of my mouth all the time, even when my lips were closed. I got teased about it a lot, even by adults (I had a teacher call me "bunny" for an entire year because she said I looked like a cute little bunny rabbit. None of the other kids had nicknames from her.) The older I got, the more self-conscious I felt and the harder I tried to draw attention away from my teeth. I cut my hair, grew out my bangs…In fifth grade I even practiced keeping my lower lip over my front teeth (which just made me look like a bulldog with a bad underbite). Even though my parents had always believed braces were unnecessary (My dad reasoned teeth were for chewing, so it didn’t matter what they look like), I eventually convinced them to let me get braces. Having braces was a lengthy, expensive and often painful process. My teeth were so crooked that, by the time I got them off six years later, the entire shape of my face had changed. Objectively speaking, this is really not that much different than someone getting a nose job. They are both (usually) for purely cosmetic reasons, they dramatically alter the person’s physical appearance, they’re costly and painful. However, I seriously doubt the majority of Americans would see anything wrong with me getting braces as a child.

[DrPhil]

Bridalplasty was selected as one of the worst shows of 2010 by MSN:

If the premise behind this show (bratty brides competing for a comprehensive pre-wedding plastic surgery package) confirms that we as a nation have little humanity left, at least take solace in the fact that the series didn't find a big audience. Perhaps we do have a shred of humanity still left America. Bickering has become ubiquitous on reality TV, and there are a few reality shows that elevate their trashiness to almost an art. This, however, is not one of them. This is simply base, banal and more than a little embarrassing, not just for the competitors, but to the entire TV landscape.

[Alumiyum]

I usually roll my eyes at "This show is why the rest of the world looks down on us"...but not in regards to Bridalplasty. The rest of the world should look down on Bridalplasty.