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Rhinoplasty: A Short Story

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Beauty is different to everyone, some prefer natural and others prefer society’s take on beauty. Olivia, a close family friend, was obsessed with society’s take on beauty; she became a model, and started her journey to achieve that beauty. Her hair had to be perfect, her makeup had to be perfect, her clothes, she had to be perfect. With this obsession of hers she fell into the trap of plastic surgery, which created a new disgusting version of who she used to be, she was botched, and went into some serious debt. When Olivia started modeling she had rhinoplasty and a breast enlargement surgery. Those two surgeries weren’t a big problem; at least she still looked like herself until something changed. That familiar feeling of having to be perfect changed who she was and looked like. Soon after, it was Botox, face lifts, liposuction, implants, and injections on a regular basis and Olivia lost all control. She was disgusting to look at, her youth was robbed from her and she looked like a different person. …show more content…

Without any precautions, signs, or warnings she fled to Mexico to have the surgery done by an amateur. Olivia came back one week later with larger, lopsided, and infected breasts. Rushed into the ER and put on a course of antibiotics it was revealed that the amateur surgeon from Mexico left poor Olivia with what’s called a “double bubble”, when the implant isn’t placed correctly and can be seen under the natural breast. If that infection wasn’t bad enough then the double bubble was enough to swear off wanting to be beautiful because that was not

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