A 13-Year-Old Gets Plastic Surgery To Fix What’s Wrong With Her. Society Is What’s Wrong With Her.

It’s tempting to watch this segment and think this doctor is crazy or those parents are crazy or that girl is crazy. The much scarier reality is that they’re not crazy — their desires and justifications make perfect sense in this culture of beauty ideals.

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Rajiv Narayan

Jan 21, 2014

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