Breast augmentation is elective, so by definition no one NEEDS it.
Also, an 18-year-old girl doesn’t have five large for a boob job. Why did the parents finance this?
She might have financed it herself. There’s a whole industry for plastic surgery related loans. I think the breast job loan is a baloon payment.
Do you want the mean, nasty, snarky answer or the enlightened, carefully thought out answer?
Five large is much more than the going rate, which in my city is $2995.
I can think of two reasons right off the top ... first, perhaps mom had hers done and daughter was wondering why nature was so cruel, expecting to have a physique like mom's. Second, as a head cheerleader going off to college with cheerleading and not education as the primary goal, she pro'ly felt at a big disadvantage if her competition was better endowed. After all, how could she be the head cheerleader in college with small boobs? An indulgent mom and pop would easily spring for a new rack as a graduation present.