Plastic meltdown

I was really glad you wrote "About Face: A GL Special Report on Teens and Plastic Surgery" in your F/M '05 issue. Sometimes I really hate my body and have considered plastic surgery. This article really changed my mind.

--A reader

I am thoroughly disgusted at what girls are doing to their bodies these days! The truth is, no girl is totally happy with herself--there are always things we'd like to reduce and enlarge. But risking your health, maybe your life, to look like the airbrushed toothpicks in some magazines is not worth it.

--Ashley

I don't think plastic surgery is a common teen issue, and it certainly isn't one important enough to be addressed in a teen magazine. Although girls getting plastic surgery is a big deal, it stems from bad body image and low self-esteem. I feel these are more important issues than girls who've gotten implants.

--Nicole

The point of the article wasn't to praise or bash plastic surgery, but to expose its realities. As always, extreme makeover or not, if you're not happy with who you are on the inside, cosmetically changing the outside will never make up for it.

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