In most ways, Summer Wilson is just like any other 17-year-old. She’s studying her year 11 VCE, has a part time job at Woolies and is looking forward to her 18th birthday in five months time.
But unlike most girls her age, Summer has already undergone a cosmetic procedure. Just two months ago, with the permission and support of her mother, the Victorian teen had fillers injected into her top lip.
“I got them because I’ve always had a small top lip. It didn’t match with my bottom lip and I got quite self conscious about it,” she told Mamamia from her Mornington Peninsula home.
“It was about Year Nine that I really started to notice it.”
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Ew.
So I'll put myself out there, at 18 I had a nose job.
I had always hated my nose, I don't know how young I was when I first brought it up, but under 10. My parents said I had to wait till I was at least 18. In those intervening years, I was SO self-conscious. I would find ways to sit so that the minimum number of people could see me from the side, the girl in the mirror didn't look right, I hated it. It was a serious dent to my confidence.
And so, yes for my 18th birthday my parents paid for me to get my nose done.
I can't describe how liberating it is to not be self-conscious. To not constantly be considering who can see me side on, to think about my nose, every single hour of every single day. And to see a person who looks like you think you should in the mirror is amazing.
Objectively, it really made remarkably little difference to how I look, from the front you could hardly tell. But psychologically it was a huge lift. So I totally get where this girl and her Mum are coming from.
Like anything, plastic surgery can be taken too far. But I will say from personal experience it can be empowering, confidence building and have an amazing emotional effect too.
Yep, totally get it. Ive had a similar experience (not my nose though) and don't regret it in the slightest.