Straight from the “why don’t we take more advice from anorexic former cocaine addicts?” file, Kate Moss recently trashed breast implants and the women who choose them. But instead of this “news” receiving an international shoulder shrug, apparently a number of people do care about what this former Calvin Klein model has to say when she’s not busy making every other woman on the planet feel fat.
Ms. Moss says that most women who get breast implants find that their breasts are “so hard you can knock on them like a door.” I work with a surgeon who performs Seattle breast augmentations in addition to several other cosmetic surgeons across the country and from my perspective, this is grossly untrue. Most women who have breast enlargement are not walking around with two lumps of coal in their breasts. Quite the contrary. Today, modern silicone gel implants feel more like natural breast tissue than almost any other implant type made previously, and saline implants, which contain nothing more than sterile salt water, also can create an enhanced breast that looks and feels very natural.
It is a reality that, like any surgery, complications can occur following a breast augmentation. And given that Kate probably has her fair share of friends in the modeling business who have chosen breast augmentation, I have no doubt that she may have seen a handful of women who did not achieve satisfying results. But with almost 1,000 women in the United States choosing breast augmentation every day, this procedure is obviously a safe and satisfying way for a woman to enhance her look. The simple fact is that women are making informed choices about breast enlargement surgery, not just scheduling a procedure so they have something to do before Oprah next Thursday.
I think when it comes down to it, Kate Moss is just stretching the truth a bit. Keep in mind this is the same woman who claims she was not in fact anorexic, she was just too busy to eat. C’mon Kate. But on second thought, maybe what she says is true. After all, I’m not schizophrenic, I was just too busy to kill that other guy living in my head.
What do you think? Sure, everyone is entitled to an opinion, but how much weight (ha!) should we give to Kate’s? In the meantime, I’m sure thousands of women will choose plastic surgery in Seattle, Dallas, New York, and beyond as a good choice for their unique and personal cosmetic needs.
