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CRAZY! Breast implants at 15...
September 27 2007 at 7:35 AM Anonymous Sheep  (no login)

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Leader rails at teen breast implants gift fad


CARACAS (Reuters) - President Hugo Chavez railed against a new trend in beauty-conscious Venezuela, giving girls breast implants for their 15th birthday.

"Now some people think, 'My daughter's turning 15, let's give her breast enlargements.' That's horrible. It's the ultimate degeneration," Chavez said late on Sunday on his weekly TV show that lasted a record eight hours.

Venezuela is well known for its beauty queens, who have regularly won world crowns, and many women have plastic surgery in the oil-rich country where there is widespread spending on consumer items that would be considered luxuries elsewhere.

But Chavez, the anti-U.S., self-styled revolutionary who came to office in 1999, is seeking to change those attitudes to create what he calls the "new man" to build a socialist society in this South American nation.

Chavez complained about the new fad of giving the plastic surgery operation at 15 -- when Latin Americans celebrate a girl's coming-of-age -- during a diatribe against what he says are Western-imposed consumerist icons such as Barbie dolls.

While breast implants are advertised on TV and banks offer special credit lines for such operations, if girls do get the enlargements they are not expected to become sexually active afterward.

Venezuelans' have a habit of avid consumerism since the 1970s oil boom in the OPEC nation. They have won the nickname of the "Give-Me-Twos" in the tourist destination of Florida for buying double the amount of typical consumers.

Breast implants cost thousands of dollars in Venezuela.

Chavez's answer? He has told his supporters to give away any extra goods they do not need, urging them to leave out in town squares items such as fans or refrigerators.

"I am calling on your conscience, fathers of this country, mothers of this country, they are our sons, they are our daughters," Chavez said.

Still, Chavez, who happily describes himself as ugly, may struggle to change Venezuelans' mind-set to spending on plastic surgery.

In elevators, at huge, jam-packed shopping malls, women can be overheard openly boasting about their recent, conspicuous operations.

 

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Anne
(no login) Re: CRAZY! Breast implants at 15... September 27 2007, 4:12 PM 


A reputable plastic surgeon wouldn't do a cosmetic procedure on someone too young.

 
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gokhil
(no login) Re: CRAZY! Breast implants at 15... January 10 2008, 7:52 AM 


i don't know about other countries, but in UK they won't do it if you're under 18.

 
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hopeful88
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SENIOR MEMBER Re: CRAZY! Breast implants at 15... January 15 2008, 4:03 AM 


I've been learning about this is a feminist course I'm take in college right now. It's just an absolute must for all women in Venezuela to have large breasts... it sounds horrific but part of me wishes I lived there...

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Win a boob job
April 2 2006 at 8:24 PM Maria (no login)

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Zoo magazine has been criticised for running a "Win a boob job for your girlfriend!" competition. It said "Make your lady a more rounded individual with our feel-good, selfless, world-first competition. Zoo is giving away a £4k boob job for your partner and a £1k cash prize for you!" The ad could put pressure on some women to have potentially harmful surgery and so is irresponsible, the Advertising Standards Authority ruled.



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Andrea
(no login) Re: Win a boob job April 10 2006, 8:08 PM


It's a very smart move on Zoo's part as it's got full media coverage for the magazine. Anyway wouldn't most of the Zoo readers girlfriends be too young for getting cosmetic surgery, cos you're supposed to be at least 18!



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L.W.
(no login) Re: Win a boob job April 11 2006, 7:29 PM


I think this competition is superficial and wrong. It gives men the idea that they have the right to decide that their girlfriend's body is not up to scratch. If my boyfriend told me that I had won a boob job I would slap him around the face!



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Ally
(no login) Re: Win a boob job April 14 2006, 11:51 AM


Its just another thing thats making girls feel like we have to change to be accepted or feel better about ourselves!! It makes me furious! Girls are put under so much pressure by crappy mags and tv shows etc that have air brushed skinny girls on them - if u took away their fakeness they'd be prettier in their natural state!! My boyfriend agrees with me - he cant stand girls in those mags and pittys them!



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Bec
(no login) Re: Win a boob job April 20 2006, 10:57 AM


I think that the competition was a great idea and would have been chuffed to bits if my boyfriend had entered for me cos we can't afford for me to get a boob job although it is something that I have wanted for about 10 years.



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Helen
(no login) Re: Win a boob job April 29 2006, 10:19 PM


whats the differance in winning a boob job or winning a car? if you didnt wont it just say no, at least he was thinking about you. I would be dead chuffed if my husdand won me a boob job,shame he never entered the competition best start buying THE ZOO for him lol



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Melanie
(no login) Re: Win a boob job May 25 2006, 6:37 PM


Do readers of Zoo actually have real girlfriends then?


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Desert Queen
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EVE MEMBERS Re: Win a boob job June 15 2006, 8:26 PM


If someone already wants to have a boob job I can't see the problem. Otherwise it could result in someone having surgery who has not thought it out fully.


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Susan
(no login) Re: Win a boob job August 24 2007, 9:05 AM


Well there wouldn't be any harm in something like this if someone already knew his girlfriend was unhappy with her breast size. Depends on everyone's circumstances. Don't knowck something which could change someone's life forever and which they might neverhave been able to afford otherwise.