Comments on: You May Be Better Looking Than You Think

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:28:51 +0000

I've worked with probably 25 plastic surgeons around the country, including one performing quite a lot of breast augmentation in New Jersey procedures, and they all tell me that BDD is something they pretty much look for in EVERY patient. Obviously, they want to help people look better, but they don't want another "cat woman."

By: Judy

Judy — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 18:08:59 +0000

Because I was slightly overweight as a teenager I still see myself as “fat” though others tell me that isn’t true today.

However, I think it is likely that we ALL focus on our figure flaws which certainly distorts them in our own mind’s eye if not in the mirror.

I did see a woman this weekend who admitted to being over-zealous about cosmetic surgery. I thought it was sad because even I could tell that she probably would have looked much better if she hadn’t started having stuff “done”.

When I am tempted by serious plastic surgery I just think of two people: Michael Jackson and Joan Rivers and that deters me immediately!

By: Susan

Susan — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 06:41:02 +0000

Rare? I can’t see that it’s that rare… maybe to the degree that you’d get multiple plastic surgeries, sure, but most of us couldn’t afford those even if we wanted them. Watch a few of the documentaries on eating disorders, though, and you start seeing girls who draw pictures of themselves as though they are enormous. A woman who is a size two and says she’s fat isn’t necessarily employing hyperbole. I once lost a great deal of weight and looked in the mirror and saw no difference whatsoever… none. I look at the pictures of myself now from that time and wonder what was wrong with me, but I really felt like there’d been no change at all.

I wonder if maybe the perceived severity of this changes with income. I have to admit, if I’d been ultra-wealthy at the time, I probably would have had surgery myself when I was going through that.

By: thebeautybrains

thebeautybrains — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 18:39:32 +0000

Yining: Thanks for the most oddly poetic spammed comment we’ve ever received. I don’t know what it means but it’s too intriguing to delete.

By: KAT

KAT — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 14:53:46 +0000

I am what others call “fat”! But i would much rather look as i do now than cut up my body to please someone elses’ distorted sense of what a woman “should” look like, rather than accept her for herself!!!!! I almost feel sorry for michael jackson, but i cannot, for the simple fact that he is a child molester and perverts such as he need prison time, not sympathy!!!!!