Two weeks ago, I read a sad story about a young 20 year old girl from London who died from chest pains after travelling to Philadelphia, USA to have silicone jabs to increase the curve of her buttocks. A newspaper reports that the operation took place in her hotel room and she was injected with a cheaper version of silicone compared to the more expensive type which should have been used.
The main reason for the young lady going to have this operation was because she wanted to pursue her career as a dancer and appear in music videos after being rejected from a previous video shoot for not having a big enough bottom. After reading this story, it took me back to the documentary I watched a few weeks ago on BBC3 called “Hip Hop Honeys” about young ladies trying to become video girls. One of the stories within the documentary focused on a young lady who recently had a boob-job and was now considering bottom implants in order to help her career as a video girl. The cost of doing such a procedure was £7,000 and after the presenter told her that is nearly the amount of a mortgage or even now days the price of a university degree, it made the girl thinks twice about spending that type of money. Then last week an article was published in the newspaper about two sisters who are facing jail after spending £8,000 on boobs jobs with stolen credit cards. The reason for the boob jobs was because they felt self-conscious about their bodies.
Watching the documentary and reading the articles got me thinking about a lot of different things and made me realise that we live in a society where we will never be truly happy with what we have been blessed with. If its not with materialistic things then its with our physical looks, we will be always be looking for ways in order to make ourselves look and feel better, but the question is: “will we every be content and 100% happy with what we have?” and personally I believe that the question is “NO”. We live in a world where our views and opinions are sometimes dictated by the media and society, the media is constantly feeding us with pictures of celebrities and images of how we should look as individual, but in actual fact, if we all looked that way, would we be ‘individual’?
I am not saying that sometimes I don’t wish that I could be a bit slimmer or something but I tell you what I am not prepared to risk my life in order to get it, I am comfortable and happy with what I have because I know and understand that God has made me this way for a reason.
We live in a funny world, because some people are running to get their bottoms increased whilst others are wishing theirs could be smaller. We need to embrace what we have and be thankful that we are “fearfully and wonderfully made” by God.
So my words to you are too embrace yourself and love who you are, before any sort of love comes self love, otherwise you can get as many operations to alter yourself but without loving yourself first other people will never embrace you... if you are able to be happy within yourself then it would work off in other areas of your life, allowing you to understand that you can do and achieve whatever you want, without worrying about what society things.
I’m going to leave you with this quote: “What matters most is how you see yourself”
Source: BBC 3, The Sun Newspaper, www.dailymail.com
