Plastic surgery has become famous at a very rapid speed in a very short time around the world. But who is to blame for this dangerous trend, is it the media or just the rising dissatisfaction with body image?

Many people have become obsessed with wanting to be the perfect person and wanting the perfect body, but like they say, “nobody is perfect.” Many of the people that are getting plastic surgery are still at a very young age, and they are doing it simply to fit in with the rest of the “good looking people.”

Many celebrities have a specific perspective of what people should look like. Most celebrities are tall, and skinny, with a gorgeous body, and the perfect skin. This can cause many people to feel that they don’t look like they should. Plastic surgery is usually what people who are unhappy with themselves look at in order to become better looking.

Yet even celebrities are having a second opinion about plastic surgery. Blond Bombshell Pamela Anderson shocked the world when she took out her breast implants and other stars have followed this track for smaller breasts because they have had plastic surgeries gone wrong.

Being a teen in high school can put a lot of pressure on someone. There are always certain standards that students will feel they need to meet in order to be part of the “popular crowd.” Students who are teased about their looks will do whatever it takes to adjust themselves, physically and mentally.

Many students will go as far as getting plastic surgery to alter their looks, in order to become better looking or like everyone else. However others might get it for surgical reasons.

“I am not for plastic surgery but I needed to get it because I got burned when I was young, and they needed to take skin out of my leg to put into my arm,” said sophomore Cleyde Henriquez.

Neverless, society has come up with something called “Nip-and-Tuck Teens,” which are young teens who are getting plastic surgery in order to boost up their self esteem.

It is understandable that a teen would, at some point, feel as if they are different from others or that they don’t fit in. But how much teasing does it take to bring a young teen to the conclusion that they would want to go as far as going under-the-knife to permanently change something on their body to feel better about themselves?

The SouthCoast Daily newspaper said that “patients age 18 and younger last year accounted for roughly 3 percent of the more than 4.6 million cosmetic procedures done annually, up from less than 1 percent in 1998.”

The top plastic surgeries for teens are breast enhancements, tummy tucks, nose jobs, and liposuction.

Over the past few years, there have been several students who have had some sort of plastic surgery. Yet there are still those students that feel nature will eventually beat out beauty.

“I would never get plastic surgery, there is too much beauty in nature to ruin it,” said sophomore Lissette LaGuardia