Teenagers believe manipulated breast are “normal”
A Danish girl counselling psychologist Anna Bjerre says teenagers believe manipulated breast look like how breasts normally look.
“At a 9th grade presentation, I asked what they thought about the silicon breasts on bus adverts. ‘It’s the norm,’ said one girl. She believed this was how typical breasts looked like,” says Anna Bjerre, who works for a counselling organisation GirlTalk.dk
Anna Bjerre contended that it was especially the media that has influenced how young people believe a female body should look like. In 2014, a bus company in Denmark carried an advert on all their buses for cosmetic surgery that featured a pair of bared breasts. Critics said it the image promoted a body image that was far from what women’s breast really look like.
Anne Bjerre was interviewed by the Danish newspaper Metroexpress asking her to comment on a survey compiled on behalf of the private Danish hospital Aleris-Hamlet which showed that 8 percent of Danish women aged 18-69 are considering plastic surgery in 2016.
“The general opinion is you can just have something fixed if you are dissatisfied with something,” Anna Bjerre told the newspaper Metroxpress.
Figures from the health data authority Sundhedsdatastyrelsen showed that the most common plastic surgery in 2014, based on notices from specialist doctors, was for droopy eyelids, followed by breast enlargements, liposuctions, abdominal lifts, breast reductions and breast lifts.
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