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Added 2024-08-23 15:13:48 +0000 UTCWhat’re your thoughts and comments about celebrities/public figures doing plastic surgery, weight loss drugs, BBL’s, etc.? Should they tell you?
Would you do any of these? Why or why not? Would you tell people if you did?
If you have had surgery or weight loss help what are some of your horror stories you feel comfortable disclosing? (We won’t say your name btw)
Comments
i don't have any specific opinions on surgeries or weight loss drugs as long as they are open and honest and are willing to incorporate a lifestyle change. the problem with celebs is that they use them, but then lie about the results AND often use them in the first place because they're not actually willing to make lifestyle changes. i think a lot of people tie weight to morality, so there's a sense of shame in "cheating" or "hitting the easy button" to get to a desired health metric or specific weight. i think that's where a lot of the taboo comes from when people use them, whether warranted/safe or not. i'm currently 390 pounds and was 510 pounds at my heaviest. i'm in the process of a weight loss journey and the way that i've been spoken to from doctors about my weight is absolutely humiliating and disgusting and i wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. my own personal story is a bit different than others because i found out that the cause for my uncontrolled weight gain was my pituitary gland never functioning properly throughout my entire life. i'm currently using medications now to finally regulate my hormones (no weight loss drugs) and it's been very easy to lose weight ever since. one of my fears for other people is that the emergence and normalization of these drugs will lead to malpractice and misdiagnosing actual conditions that could cause the weight issues in the first place. i've been offered weight loss drugs many times now, but they would have never actually worked well because of the severe hormone issues that i actually had sitting under the surface. i don't want others to slap a bandaid on the issue with weight loss drugs or surgeries and not actually address any serious issues that could be related, like me!
Todd
2024-08-27 04:39:03 +0000 UTCI think people should do whatever they want with their bodies and they don’t have to disclose. But I wish the shame was less so that people could be honest about it. That might help people watching at home realize that the beauty standards we see now are beyond unrealistic, they require expensive surgery. With weight-loss drugs, so much of the discussion around them is fatphobic. When celebrities deny using them, they often throw in “ever heard of a gym?” like weight loss is easy and a matter of willpower. Similarly, commenters saying “Ozempic?” on every celebrity weight loss are also often suggesting the person didn’t loss the weight “honestly.” Both of these imply that fat people are simply lazy. These drugs have proved conclusively that weight is not about willpower; your body has biological systems telling you to eat more which cannot be overcome by going to the gym.
Caitlin C
2024-08-26 21:59:08 +0000 UTCalso having had top surgery, and also chronic health issues, i just see no appeal at all to putting my body/immune system thru that, healing process can rlly freaking suck
Elliott McPeek
2024-08-24 17:10:00 +0000 UTCas much as it's important to let ppl have freedom and control with their own body, there's some down sides. Ppl who get to set the beauty standard lying about work they've had feels messed up, esp when they push products to ppl (who don't have the same disposable income they do) promising them to achieve the same results. I guess that's just capitalism but i'm severely not rocking w that. we're all just trying to get by under the same systems of influence so i'd never bash someone for wanting to lose weight. but when celebrities start scooping up this drug willy nilly, to the point where ppl who actually need it for health reasons are struggling to access it, feels, as bob often says, WILD. it's just becoming a bit dystopian. i have had cosmetic surgery done, but the gender affirming kind, and i feel like even if i grew up in a vacuum w no gender norms imposed on me, i'd still feel like that part of my body was not my own. my friends know about it, and anyone who sees my chest might also know, i don't hide it but it's not on my roster of small talk topics. the surge in popularity of getting aesthetic (rather than gender affirming, to me these aren't comparable) work done has def had me in a chokehold many times, staring at my own face choosing what i would change, feeling like it'd somehow make me more worthy of love and acceptance or smthn. but at the end of the day i always come back to refusing to fund that industry. ppl wanting to get the work is one thing, but the way the industry of professionals/scammers prey on ppl is something i never want to monetarily contribute to. not my gay dollars!!
Elliott McPeek
2024-08-24 17:08:08 +0000 UTCI think it's mostly white supremacist capitalist patriarchal bs. Most plastic surgery on non-white people is to make folks features look closer to a European standard, which is defined as the most beautiful around the world. (Fight me. Look at all the skin whitening creams all across India, Philippines and other parts of Asia. Colonialism is real) The BBL and lip filler are the only exceptions, but having a large(r) ass and large(r) lips was not always accepted and it only became more acceptable when white people and those with closer proximity to whiteness made it acceptable. Even now, there is a double standard around both of these body parts that favors whiteness in an altered BBL filler state, and looks down on darker skinned (specifically black dark skin bodies who have that appearance naturally) I think it's one thing to get surgery so that you feel more affirmed in your gender identity. I think it's another thing when as a society we have had whiteness and Eurocentric features as the standard of beauty and have internalized it to the point that one doesn't like their own non-Eurocentric features. I think we currently have a state of people in the industry who just look "done" and like plastic. Do what you want, AND simultaneously recognize where the desire comes from, and if these conditions didn't exist, would you want your features to look different?
Andra Chae
2024-08-24 16:34:29 +0000 UTC
