Sacrifice

Plastic surgery addiction is a fast spreading addiction that has ruined far too many lives. Maybe it’s the shape and size of your nose, breasts, or even calf muscles (or lack thereof) that you’d like to change. Maybe you want fuller lips, a flatter stomach, or even a rejuvenated vagina. While some of this desire is normal – we all have at least one feature we wish could be improved with a simple snap of the fingers we have allowed continual plastic surgeries to become an ongoing cultural obsession.

Whether they be soccer moms, actresses, cheerleaders, housewives even teens,women and girls from all walks of life are volunteering for multiple cosmetic enhancements. Some fall prey to unscrupulous plastic surgeons who are willing to perform any procedure to feed an outrageously expensive plastic surgery addiction. My point is this: before you take the steps to attain narrower nostrils, sexier cleavage, or better-sculpted muscles, you should do some serious thinking and evaluate why you want cosmetic surgery in the first place.

The saddest and perhaps most tragic case of plastic surgery addiction is the story of Hang Mioku. Now nearing 50, she was once a beautiful young South Korean woman, but after continual plastic surgeries and an illegal oil injection in her face, she became horribly disfigured. Even after surgeons refused to continue working on her, she still sought out plastic surgery in her home country.

Even after being refused continual plastic surgeries, she would look in the mirror and think “I’m beautiful.” But that still wasn’t enough for her as she continued to pursue operations. Her appearance changed so drastically that after returning home, her parents didn’t even recognize her as their own daughter.

Hang Mioku’s drastic change led her parents to take her to be evaluated by a doctor. The doctor determined that she was not in a healthy mental state, concluding she had a severe physiological disorder. After the evaluation, she started treatment for her disorder, however, she concluded these treatments were too expensive and stopped them entirely.

Soon after ending her treatments Hang Mioku began receiving silicone injections but these also became too expensive to keep up. Giving in to her desire for continual plastic surgeries, she found an unlicensed person to give her injections, but these injections were of cooking oil, not silicone. These injections led to her face to become large and even more disfigured. The disfigurement was so bad that people around her began to bully her, especially children who gave her the nickname “standing fan.”

Because of her appearance, Hang Mioku has became quite popular on South Korean television, especially daytime talk shows. Sympathy poured in for the woman in the form of monetary donations, which allowed her to seek surgery to fix her appearance

The image called Sacrifice is my take on this growing problem of plastic surgery addiction and the painful consequences for the modern woman. This work is about the image of female beauty popular in today’s media and the price a woman will pay to achieve it. Some say this image is hardcore, with the needle injected into the woman’s head. . The insane desire for continual plastic surgeries and plastic surgery addiction are manifestations of our obsession with fake beauty standards that can only be realistically applied to a barbie doll.

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