Is plastic surgery the new "black" ?

Today I decided to honor one of my New Year's resolutions & go for a run. Afterwards I decided to defeat the purpose by picking up some lunch from Panda Express. On the way home from Panda Express I decided to stop at Walgreen's to grab some Baked Lays & my must have on deck at all times sugar free Red bull (momma was down to her last can).

While waiting to check out I silently perused the magazines near the counter & discovered the new People magazine with the headline "Addicted to plastic surgery" with a beautiful woman in a gorgeous purple dress. Silently I wondered who she was because I didn't recognize her. As I studied the cover a bit more I noticed in the upper left corner a picture of Heidi Montag from Mtv's "The Hills" & it said 2008. It took me about 10 more seconds to realize that the woman in the dress was Heidi Montag !

I couldn't believe it ! She looked like a totally different person. After seeing that cover I just had to cop that mag ! After reading the article in which Heidi stated " For the past three years I've thought about what to have done. I'm beyond obsessed". I thought to myself:

Is plastic surgery the new "black" ?

Plastic surgery isn't hardly new at all. People have been getting nips & tucks for eons. They were just more discreet about it. When a woman went away to go get a face lift she told her friends she was going away to a spa retreat or something of that nature. Nowadays women pass along their plastic surgeons information like they're giving you the phone number to their beautician. Women are willing to go to extremes to become exactly who they want to be. For example, if you were the flat chested girl in high school with a bird beak for a nose & an extreme over bite, you can now for several thousand "throw some D's" on yourself, get rhinoplasty & expensive orthodontic surgery.

Yay YOU ! Now you're fabulous :-)

Supposedly plastic surgery was just something that "rich white folks did". Not true. Black women just know how to keep a secret better. In 2002 African American Detroit city council woman Brenda Scott died from a severe infection in her stomach three days after undergoing surgery for the LAP-BAND system to restrict the size of her stomach. Around that same time about 4 women from my job had already gotten similar stomach reduction surgeries.

Soooo...why is everyone so willing to talk about it now ?

Perhaps because it's now harder to keep it a secret. Plastic surgery has gotten bigger & bolder in recent years. Women leave work for a week looking like 10 year old boys & come back looking like Dolly Parton. Dear, sweet Ms. Jenkins your son's 1st grade homeroom teacher takes "some time off" & comes back to work a month later looking like Ms. Parker from Friday. Lastly there's nice little Sherman who was in your 10th grade drama class who now dances at The sexy kitty & now goes by the name "Sasha".

Yup. You can live out all your desires for a few Benji's.

The latest big thing *pun not intended* is butt implants. This particular procedure appears to be gaining popularity like wild fire, especially in the urban community. It's become such a hot commodity that it is apparently done more "underground" than in an actual plastic surgeons office. The "I got it for cheap" version is given in the form of illegal hydrogel shots. Supposedly it began with transvestites & like all juicy gossip the word got around that for just a couple stacks you too could look like J Lo circa 2001.

Sadly the desperation in some of these women to enhance their posterior has superseded the God given common sense to want to remain healthy & alive. Some of these "hood doctors" are using dirty needles & industrial strength silicone thus causing multiple deaths already with this extremely risky procedure. The situation is getting so out of hand that even Tyra devoted a segment to the subject on an episode of her talk show discussing "the dangers of plastic surgery". Will this stop young girls from getting this procedure ?

Umm...I'll take "hell no" for a thousand Alex.

As long as hip hop videos continue to show men ogling beautiful women who have waists like 5 year old girls & booties like Big Momma then women will continue to put their lives at risk.

Don't get me wrong now, I am a pro plastic surgery supporter. As long as it's SAFE. Puhleeze believe this Barbii has toyed with the idea of upping the ante so to speak on my own rack . Hell, I even believe Heidi looks great after her surgery. I do think however it was a bit excessive seeing as how she could have knocked on my door this morning while I was watching an episode of The Hills & handed me my newspaper & I would have had no idea who the hell she was.

I wonder how her parents felt when they saw their new daughter...

I wonder if this is just the underlying of a much bigger problem such as extreme lack of self esteem ...

I wonder if good ole Spencer had anything to do with this.

Hmm...

I guess we'll have to wait until the new season begins to find out.

Blowing this popsicle stand now kids...

Later :-)

XoXo