Gah!
This story is a couple months old, but Back in Skinny Jeans re-linked to it today and I hadn't read it before. A 12-year-old girl got liposuction because she wanted her father to see her "looking slim and pretty in a dress before he dies." I can't say it any better than BiSJ:
"There is absolutely no reason for a 12 year old to get liposuction to lose weight, and there is no reason for parents to allow such a dangerous procedure on a young girl who is still growing and developing. Brooke is in 6th grade for crying out loud. Aren't there some kind of laws or standards on cosmetic surgery on growing children. If not, there should be. Liposuction on a 12 year old to lose weight is truly horrifying."
In fact, I can't think of anything to add, as I am too fraught with horror to type.
"There is absolutely no reason for a 12 year old to get liposuction to lose weight, and there is no reason for parents to allow such a dangerous procedure on a young girl who is still growing and developing. Brooke is in 6th grade for crying out loud. Aren't there some kind of laws or standards on cosmetic surgery on growing children. If not, there should be. Liposuction on a 12 year old to lose weight is truly horrifying."
In fact, I can't think of anything to add, as I am too fraught with horror to type.
posted by mo pie at 11:17 AM
5 Comments:
I hope that Brooke continues to do well -- I wouldn't have made this choice for my child, but she seems to have done OK, from the comments posted on the site. This is the first time I have heard about this story.
I didn't know that lipo could be used to drop someone that many sizes and it does seem potentially dangerous. The frightening thing is that others might want to follow in her footsteps, and sooner or later someone will end up with serious complications.
It seems like a sad case, though, a little girl wanting her dad to be proud of her before he dies... I wish the dad had told her he didn't want her to risk it and that he thought she was beautiful the way she was. But I don't pretend to know the whole story.
I saw her with Rachael Ray this past week. And she doesn't have a 13 year old body. I though she was like 21 or something like that. Maybe the doctor took that into account.
Anyway, I too think she is way too young to have this. And every time I read about this I wonder how the hell did most of us survived school? There was endless teasing but you dealt with it and move on, right? I'd like to know what's different now (having not kids of my own I don't know)
This reminds me of a case last year in Australia in which a 16 year old girl had breast reduction surgery because she was embarassed by her large breasts. The fact that she was significantly overweight was never mentioned. So she went from being an overweight girl with large breasts, to an overweight girl with medium-size breasts.
As anabell said, it makes you wonder how we survived school.
I can't even believe that! What is this world coming to? (And I don't even care that I just sounded like my grandma!)
I have a daughter who starts 6th grade next year and she is on the chubby side. We tell her how beautiful she is ALL THE TIME. We also tell her how proud we are of her for being such an incredible human being.
This lipo girl is going to be messed up for the rest of her life. Poor thing.
How can there not be a law? Unbelievable.
Sherry
I saw an ABC Diane Sawyer thing online and they said she had been on a diet since she was three, and that's how they knew nothing else would work.
Seems to me like that was the problem in the first place.
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