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For flat-chested girls, having a full C, or even B, cup would be a dream come true. It was for Heidi. I know multiple friends of mine that have commented on how much they want larger boobs and would consider implants when they are older. Personally, the idea of inserting foreign substances into my chest sounds uncomfortable and unappealing. But, I also may not fully understand the woes of those still not satisfied with their knockers.
Well, a recently published study in the Annals of Plastic Surgery showed a strong link between breast implants and suicide, which I found very interesting. According to USA Today, the study found that “women who have breast implants are three times as likely to die by suicide and have a similar increased risk of death as a result of drug use or alcoholism.”
The study followed more than 3,000 women, and found no big increase in suicide risk in the first 10 years after surgery. But, the risk grew by 4.5 times 10-19 years after, and then to six times higher compared with the expected suicide rate after 20 years.
Although these results are significant, it is also hard to tell whether they are due to previous psychiatric illnesses that were not diagnosed…But, in my opinion, that’s a pretty large increase for these women. Maybe because many women that receive plastic surgery are already somewhat unhappy with their body in some way or another? And are unable to shake these feelings even with implants? Who knows, just thinking out loud here.
Regardless, I think that any girl who is considering a plastic surgery procedure should give it some serious thought. Will it really change how you feel about yourself or are there other factors you should deal with first?
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I’ve had mine for 12 years and have never thought of killing myself. What is can they think of to scare girls from having them. Do it and feel better about yourself!
I think you’re right, the suicide rate probably does have to do with the fact that the girls getting implants are unhappy about their bodies, and probably other things too.
This business of the suicide risk not hitting until after a decade…could it have anything to do with the fact that the average lifespan of saline implants is about ten years??
I had to have a breast reduction in March.
It was not for cosmetic reasons.
I had triple bypass surguer after a heart attack.
My sternum never closed. It is still about one inch wide. I said that to say since my reduction I became very depressed and cried for weeks.
My left breast has staph infection and another infection called Cseudomons. The hole in my breast is as large as the tip on a pencil, and the infection is bad.
i was a double d. The Dr. said i would be a large C.
i am a double nothing and still may lose my left breast.
Please keep what you have if you can. Surgeries don’t always deliver what you ask for. I don’t even fill like a woman any more.
“For flat-chested girls, having a full C, or even B, cup would be a dream come true.”
In fact this is a quite misogynistic presumption! Not all the women are obsessed by breasts , but (mad)men do. Stop putting your thoughts into girls’ minds, OK? Even if some women think so, is just the result of the paternalistic society, ruled by men.
I’m a “flat-chested” girl and I’m proud of it, I don’t wont to change my “status”, and I never envied the other girls. In fact, I petty them, because they always complain, they can’t run, can’t dance like crazy, can’t sleep on the tummy.. they always have to wear a bra, and , when in the buss, or in other very crowded places, they have to be careful not to get hit in the chest, cos this is dangerous in long time. Besides, of that, I know in the long shut, after 10-20 years from now, I’ll look much better than them.
Boys? Who need a bunch of them? I need only one and for good. I need one to love me for my brain and my soul, not for my breast. If you know what I mean. And I already find the one. So it worth being myself!
Good luck, you girls! Don’t fall into men’s stupid obsessions! Accept yourselves as you are. Look at yourselves as humans, not as some sex(y) toys for naughty boys. You worth a lot much more. I wish you all to find the One to love you for what you are!
I have always been very happy with myself. I have friends (just about all) who have breast implants and they have had them for several years. They are so happy it seems. If this suicide thing is true it just isn’t happening with my friends and I hope it never does!! I will admit there were times during my twenties I did consider getting a boob job due to having small breast (B cup) to make my butt look smaller.lol I am 43 now and my butt is still the same but I developed breast cancer in October of 2006 and had both breast removed. I am currently undergoing reconstructive surgery and I do plan to get implants that are bigger than what I had before. I can say when I went through all the chemo and radition I lost all my hair and of course my breast. I did not feel like a woman. My hair grew back and my husband and I felt like going under the knife for breasts wasn’t something I should do. Months went by and I couldn’t even look at myself in the mirror nude due to my sunken in chest wall. I would not let my husband see me nude. I was very ashamed of my body due to the cancer. I like I said earlier changed my mind and have decided to get implants. I have tissue expanders in my chest now that are prepping my body (stretching muscle and skin) for the implants. The expanders look just like breast implants but very hard. Even though these are not the implants I feel so much better about myself again I am getting used to looking in the mirror without turning out the lights first. So my point is if it wasn’t for the breast implants I would still be prob. very depressed . I think they saved my life emotionally and physically.
I think this is absolutely ridiculous. I have implants and suicide has never crossed my mind. As far as having low self esteem… never. I love my body… that’s why I paid to improve it. If I had low self esteem why would I want to spend that much money on myself? Maybe these people who committed suicide picked a mate/friends that only wanted them for their boobs… that may cause me to commit suicide.
I’m 23 years old and I have a four year old daughter, personally speaking I can remember when I was 13 and 14 years old I was flat chested, being picked on because my breast had not developed yet. I recall wishing for breast. When I was 17 I wore a 36D.I didn’t get picked on anymore,but After having my daughter now 23 they sage from breastfeeding. My bra size now is a 38DD, now even though they are natural I’m wishing they were smaller. I feel that if you think it will make you feel better go for it, but it may not always turn out the way you want it…
Yea Reah! natural is best….and small gives a
youthful look forever…can you beat that? and with
even “some” risk of bad results ANY surgery that you don’t have to have is a poor choice in my book.
Natural is beautiful!
Guy in Orlando
I just want to know who is the model in that picture. Yowza.
maybe the reason they feel like suicide is because they place so much value in their physical beauty.. i mean 10 years after they have had the implants, the rest of their bodies/faces are bound to be showing signs of aging.. i’d think most women who get the implants in the first place would not be the types to handle aging that well.
suicide results from either feeling society to strongly within us, or a lack of feeling it at all. one can either be to absorbed and place to much importance on what our ‘culture’ values and demands of us. or, there can be a feeling that it is all irrational, that we feel out of place within the culture itself, that there is notthing to hold on to.
breast implants do not cause suicide. people do.
women do not get plastic surgery because they feel poorly about their body. plastic surgery is a manifestation of a beauty ideal, which tells women, and also men, that physical appearance trumps all other endeavours, and that there is a certain beautiful to strive for.
women are not unhappy with their bodies because they have, or own a poor self esteem, but because we have robbed them of a chance to love and enjoy their bodies, becasue we have told them they are not good enough. to own ones body is to understand it is enough, it is more than enough, it is yours.
the only thing this ’study’ proves is that people, not just women with implants, but all people, in some way, feel inadequate.
suicide rates have a stunning ability to remain statistically unchanged over the years- why don’t we study that?!
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