Why in the world would a young girl do something like that? Her parents must have really been great for her to have low self esteem.
Apparently not very happy with her breasts!
It could have been surgery to reduce their size, a friend of mine’s 14 year old daughter wants hers reduced because they are causing her back pain, etc.
Why in the world would a young girl do something like that? Her parents must have really been great for her to have low self esteem.”
I cannot blame parents across the board on this one.
There are VERY cruel kids in high school and middle school these days.
We are responsible for that, IMO, because we have given these kids faaaarr too much in the material items they get excited about. Madison Avenue has done an outstanding job on our kids. They think they have to have EVERYTHING that is on the shelves for sale.
The kids in school make fun of someone who doesn’t have the latest fad clothing or the I-pods, etc. I know it is very hard to reject all these pleas from the kids, but I believe it starts at a very young age when you have to shape their reality about what is important and what is just a fad that is very expensive. It is particularly hard for parents who don’t want their daughters dressing like little tramps. Finding jeans that actually come up to the waist often means buying them at the western store. the idols they have are edgy at best.
One of my best stories about a frieis that the daughter had every CD of music as soon as it hit the shelves. She could sing perfectly every word of every song. This same kid said she couldn’t remember dates and other kinds of “history stuff”. I pointed out to her that she had an excellent memory—she could remember songs that were 5 years old. She didn’t like my comment, but Mom looked at me like she had had an eye-opening idea. This kid could have gone to college, but she bailed out of school as soon as she had enough credits, and will be wasting most of her life, I predict. Mom was wealthy enough to give the kids everything they asked for. New I-pod for btdidn’t last a week- he left it on a bench when going skiing. Why he needed the I-pod to ski, I don’t understand.
Peer-Pressure is a mo-fo at that age.
Could also have been a graduation present from mom and dad.
In any case, a real-life example of vanity as one of the seven deadly sins.
So tragic to see a promising young life ended in such a pointless manner. Breast augmentation was the last thing this girl needed to be successful.
Don't blame the parents. Blame a culture that salivates over large breasts, whether made by God or surgeons. Blame TV, videos, and websites that make it seem to a young girl as if this is the only standard of worth or beauty. Blame young men who will drop a girl if her breasts aren't big enough.
My daughter has an 18-year-old friend who is planning to get plastic surgery next year. Her parents are friends of mine, and I know that they have done everything they could to teach her that she is a worthwhile human being even if she is very modestly built. But her peers, her classmates, and the general society around her that displays breasts everywhere apparently make her feel she has no beauty apart from her chest.
And before you ask, yes, this is an intelligent, fairly attractive girl, a good student and athlete from a Christian family. She is saving up the money for the procedure herself.