The debate about plastic surgery has gone on endlessly for years now. Is excessive plastic surgery a symptom of some underlying illness – a need for attention or a poor self image? Does the fact that someone wants plastic surgery, such a degree that physicians and surgeons feel that it will cause serious physical harm, mean they’ve got a few issues to deal with?
One great debate about plastic surgery involves breast implants. The largest breast implants seem to be desired by those who are in show business. We all know the benefits they can receive from them, and realistically, so do they. Plastic surgeons around the country make billions of dollars every year by affording clients the largest breast implants that they can conceivably get. Many of those go to dancers, to actresses and others who are out to make a point (or a buck) with their body.
Some of them succeed admirably in making themselves famous, by virtue of having a notoriously large bust, that gets them noticed as they go about their craft. It’s a stage trick and may be the only real claim to fame that they ever have. To give themselves a way to stand out, seems to be the aim of most of those who attempt to achieve having the largest breasts.
How much is too much? Is there ever a time when the breast implants that women want, to help them to be “something special” or to stand out in a crowd, are unhealthy?
When should a plastic surgeon say, “No, you’ve had enough and we won’t be attending you on this particular surgery?” Is there a time when a physician or surgeon should actually be sued for malpractice for giving in to a patient’s whim for a greater change that simply is not healthy or necessary?
That seems to be the question that a great many people are asking when they are faced with some of the results of the largest breast implants. Those breast implants are no longer augmentation, but in some opinions, creating freaks. When does it stop being something to enhance their beauty and become an obsession with a woman that needs some mental treatment to get over?
Some women seem to have approached an area that is making even the plastic surgeons making money from them, uncomfortable. So much so, that they will no longer treat them and send them along to the next person to work with. Ultimately they will find someone who will enhance their bodies still further and give them the added dimensions that they want.
That was – at least – the result in the case of Sheyla Hershey, a Brazilian model who is also a housewife living in Texas. Sheyla’s physicians refused to give her the breast augmentation that she wanted after achieving a certain level. She was not content to take no for an answer and went to Brazil to get the plastic surgery that she was denied here, making her the woman with the worlds largest breast implants and taking her to a size 39 KKK.
Sheyla’s physicians in Texas would not permit further augmentation because they believed that her breasts could actually explode or rupture. She subsequently traveled to Brazil for the surgery and received her massive mammaries courtesy of a physician in Brazil. She also received an inclusion in the Guiness Book equivalent as the woman with the largest breast implants in the world.
Subsequently, she endured some serious health problems from the implants. A staph infection took hold and Sheyla was hospitalized, unable to breathe. She was taken back to surgery for a clearing of the infection and was really at one point, fighting for her life due to an unnecessary surgery.
Updates in August of this year, state that she currently still has her implants and is fighting to keep them as well as, according to some, to keep her own breasts as well, in spite of the infection. Her condition is better but still her health remains touch and go. She is fighting to keep breast implantations that her body does not require and her system can’t handle.
When does this type of behavior become an illness that must be treated? How far does it go before the request for more surgery and larger breast implants is met with a referral to a psychiatric facility to treat underlying issues prior to affording your client any more surgery?
That risking one’s life for a breast implantation, even to get the largest breast implants in the world, is simply a mental illness that requires the physicians responsible to be penalized for risking her health, and for her to receive mental treatment to assist her in recuperating from her disease before it causes her more harm.
Is a desire for these largest breast implants, the inability to be content with your own body and to enhance your self worth by artificial means a symptom of a mental illness that is specific to these women, or is it a symptom of a societal illness?
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