When Appearance Matters so Much Children Will Resort to Surgery
Just under a third of girls younger than 16 have claimed they would undergo surgery to look better.
In a survey conducted by Beat, an eating disorder charity organization, 40 per cent of girls under 16 said they were bullied due to their appearance.
Girls aged just nine and younger are promoted to look favourably at cosmetic surgery and diets on a website called Miss Bimbo. Young viewers can control the diet of online dolls as well as buy them breast operations and facelifts.
Jay Paine of Peterhead, Scotland, who is nine years old, had to beg his parents to remove a mole on his face surgically because of unbearable bullying at school.
Cosmetic surgery industry in the UK is predicted to reach a total of £1.81billion by 2011. A quarter of these spendings will be for breast enlargement procedures will for a quarter of that. Customers will soon be able to choose more natural surgery as stem cells research enables the use of body cells for cosmetic procedures.
