Title:
Woman spends £20,000
of her pension on an extreme makeover... and feels great
Subject:
A women gets surgery to feel prettier
Web
Address:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/woman-spends-20000-of-her-pension-on-an-extreme-810870
Date:
29 Apr 2012
| The Before/Bad Photo: £0 The After/Good Photo: £20,000 All hail photoshop! |
Summary:
So there is this woman, a former maths
teacher called Linda Owen who is 62, that got herself a makeover
that cost her more than £20,000. She claims she wanted to be a
brand-new women, after her stressful job and long hours that took
their toll. She became fat and although she “tried every diet under
the sun for many years” she could not loose the weight, mainly
because of her love for bacon sandwiches, curries and cheeseburgers.
So she got herself a gastric band operation that made her stomach
smaller and a whole lot of other surgeries including a face lift,
surgery on her “bingo wings” and teeth whitening. Now she feels
like a new women and is thrilled people do not recognize her anymore.
Opinion:
I think it is really sad that this
woman thought the only way for her to feel better about herself is to
undergo surgery. And those operation are not without risk. In fact,
that gastric band operation has been known to be fatal more than
once. Also, I think it she is rather stupid to blame her diets on not
working and that anything she managed to lose soon piled back on
again while admitting that she ate burgers afterwards. I mean, how
does she think diets work? That once you have completed a week of
dieting you can go on and eat everything for the rest of your life and magically not gain a pound? And that used to be a teacher. A
maths teacher, even. You would think she could put two and two
together.
I get the feeling that you are very strongly opposed to "vanity" plastic surgery jobs, also because of the reaction that you wrote on one of my blogs. I myself am not opposed to any plastic surgery, because it is a person's choice. Though they should always be aware of all the risks they are taking. And this woman, well, it's great that she feels good. The result justifies the means?
BeantwoordenVerwijderenWhile I sort of agree with you, I also think you’re being a bit harsh. I think that if someone would be willing to spent that much money on his or her appearances there is no problem with that. The women knew the dangers. It is obviously very superficial, but she is not the first woman to undergo plastic surgery.
BeantwoordenVerwijderenYou're absolutely right, if she feels better with this surgery then who am I to say she shouldn't? It wasn't so much that I thought the surgery was wrong, I just think it is sad that she (and many others with her) has this idea that she couldn't change without it. And the whole "diets don't work for me" idea while eating hamburgers... I also wanted to make the point that this isn't really news at all. The problem with that 100 word limit is that I have to make choices in which opinions I will expand on :P
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