death
died at 58
dona west
kanye wests mom
plastic surgery
plastic surgery complications
plastic surgery risks
Just goes to show you that plastic surgery isn't the way to go.
By drknlvly6781
@drknlvly6781 (6246)
United States
November 12, 2007 3:03pm CST
This is an unexpected follow up to my "Plastic Surgery For Teens" discussion. I just looked at MSN News, and saw that Kanye West's mother, Donda West, 58, just died last Saturday due to complications of cosmetic surgery. For the story go here:
http://music.msn.com/music/article.aspx?news=283724>1=7702
This is what these parents and teens should be looking at when this issue arises. This woman, who has done many great things including rasing a fine young man such as Kanye, including Chief Executive of West Brands LLC, parent company of her son's enterprises, chairwoman of the Kanye West Foundation, an educational non-profit organization that works to decrease drop out rates and improve literacy. She even worked together with her son to create the Foundation's first program, "Loop Dreams", which helps public school students get involved in music, and she was a beautiful woman. But the world has lost this fantastic woman because of the stigma of society's view on beauty.
Would all these teenagers want this plastic surgery if they were explained the risks thouroghly? If they saw this story, looked at it from the West family's point of view, is vanity really worth it?
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@Ravenladyj (22902)
• United States
13 Nov 07
I think one thing ppl need to remember is the fact that #1 her age is a factor and more than that it doesnt say WHAT the complications were....
I've had plastic surgery and if I wanted it done again I certainly would wtihout a doubt....
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@Ravenladyj (22902)
• United States
13 Nov 07
"however you must also realize the fact that young age is a factor too when the body is still growing"
Oh of course it is..but we're talking about a 58 yr old woman which is why I never mentioned the younger crowd...but yes absolutely it works at the other end of the scale as well...
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@drknlvly6781 (6246)
• United States
13 Nov 07
I think we are having a miscommunication. This post is an offshoot of a post that I made the day before after seeing the news in my area. It is entitled "Plastic Surgery for Teens? Ridiculous, no?" where I linked a story about a 14 year old who had gotten her cheeks done.
I never meant to bash plastic surgery as a whole, even though I will never get any. I just wanted to show what these parents that are allowing and paying for their teens to get plastic surgery should be speaking to them about.
I hope this clears everything up.
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@drknlvly6781 (6246)
• United States
13 Nov 07
I do give you that Raven, however you must also realize the fact that young age is a factor too when the body is still growing. A female's body grows until about age 24-25, I use Donda's situation to say that there is a risk involved no matter what the age, this is a decision that a person must reason through and be proactive about all the precautions to be successful. I don't think that a teenager has that reasoning capacity, and as a parent should encourage the child to wait to make this decision until they are mentally and physically ready for it, not give in to the demand of a teenager in a beauty contest.
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@phillygirl606 (1112)
• United States
13 Nov 07
yes teens and other peoiple would still want it. Society makes beauty out to be one thing, how thin one is, how pretty. Society has made beauty an outer physical thing. And we see it everywhere, television, magizines. It needs to be taught to our kids that beauty is not just looks, It's personality and smarts. That its ok to keep up with your appearance but not to obcess over it. Take this woman for example. she had everything she could possibly want. successfull, successfull children, money, and she also gave back to the community. How can one get more beautiful than that?
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@drknlvly6781 (6246)
• United States
16 Jan 08
Sad but true. But its the parents that should tell talk to their kids about it. They are the parents! They are the ones who have to give their kids the confidence needed not to give in to stereotypes and peer pressure.
Throughout school I was ridiculed for the way I looked. I was constantly capped on, and I hated my appearance. But about the tenth grade I started to come out of my duck stage and actually gain confidence in myself. My features evened out some, and the ones that didn't I became accustomed to. I realized that this was the makeup that made me unique. I didn't want to look like anyone or anything else, this was me. This was due to constant votes of confidence from my family. And if these teenagers were getting the same votes of confidence, they wouldn't want these surgeries I believe.
@Debs_place (10520)
• United States
13 Nov 07
Tell kids about the risks will do no good. For proof of this, go take a walk around the neighborhoods of your local schools. The kids smoke, we all know the dangers of smoking and cancer and how the smoke in itself will age your skin.
Yet more and more kids are smoking!
Vanity is a terrible thing and to die for it is really sad but face it, people only hear what they want to hear.
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@soccermom (3198)
• United States
12 Nov 07
I absolutely love Kanye West, and was saddened to hear his mom passed. My mom is going through this belated mid life crisis at 55 and had some work done a couple weeks ago. Sad part is that nobody really notices it, it was nothing drastic, but still. I can't understand why a 55 year old woman, happily married feels the need to do stuff like this. Whatever happened to just being satisfied with what you were born with? Their is a suburb close to where I live and it seems like the graduation present du jour is boob jobs. What the heck does a 17-18 year old girl need with a boob job? The whole thing just puzzles me. I hope my kids never feel like they would be a better person of they have cosmetic surgery.
@drknlvly6781 (6246)
• United States
12 Nov 07
I just hope that this discussion serves as a wake up call to everyone who is considering plastic surgery. I want everybody to take a look at the risks and ask themselves, "Is vanity really worth it?"
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@jezzmay (1845)
• United States
12 Nov 07
This is really something we should discourage,but the pressure of fitting
in will make them do it anyway.I just saw a story about a girl 14 yrs.old
had her legs broke and stretched so she could be a foot taller.This was
because of pressure of being picked on.Also the job she wanted to do she
had to be taller.She had stopped growing and felt like this was her only
way of doing what she wanted.
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@drknlvly6781 (6246)
• United States
13 Nov 07
I've heard of this as well, this bone streching. How painful can that be to have your bones broken and reset over and over, all because you want to be taller? And who is to say that this 14 year old will want to do that same job in the next two to three years, let alone when she is grown.
*Sidebar-Ever wish mylot had smileys? I so want to have a smiley smacking their forehead right here.
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@peanutjar (5198)
• Canada
12 Nov 07
Unfortunately this does happen alot,its just not publicized alot.Ive seen alot on t.v and alot of real surgery done and alot of after takes that were bad and alot,alot that were perfect.I know alot of people here that has had this surgery done with no hitches and are fine afterwards.It does make a difference about blood testing for clogging/clots,bad heart and so on.Sometimes the tests are not done good and over looked some.I think if the person is of age 20 - 24 they know what they want and they just have to take alot of talking tests before and see if its what they really want.
Peanutjar:)
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@drknlvly6781 (6246)
• United States
12 Nov 07
Right. Research must be done. Like Judge Maybelline Eprhaim used to say, "Look deep before you leap." This isn't just playing with makeup and clothes, this is a life threatening decision.
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@RosieS57 (889)
• United States
14 Nov 07
The pressure in the US to look like the cover of the women's magazines no matter what your age as a female is completely ridiculous and absurd. There was an expose recently concerning a Faith Hill cover where there were a TON of airbrushed changes done to her real photo to make it magazine cover ready. So what was on the cover was some rendition of what someone thought Faith Hill should look like, rather than the real person herself. The cover girl Faith Hill does not, in fact, actually exist.
Holding oneself up to a fake, airbrushed and smoothed over ideal that isn't reality. That is what US women are pressured toward daily and it is flat out WRONG.
Thanks for giving me a good place to vent this! (smiles)
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@vicki2876 (5636)
• Canada
13 Nov 07
I heard about this today and I thought the same way as you. What a waste. It wasn't worth it. Though I have thought of it myself, I still would never do it. One the safety and two the cost. I can use the money in way better ways and I don't like the risks of any unneeded surgery.
I am so sorry for the loss to the west family
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