I (25F) grew up with beauty obsessed parents and had my first plastic surgery done at 16 (a rhinoplasty), AMA

My self esteem is not great even tho I guess I'm objectively "very beautiful". I think that people who never experienced PS view it as a quick fix like done and now you're pretty and people will be head over heels over you. It's not like that at all. PS makes you see each part of you as a flaw and PS surgeons perpetuate that idea. If before PS you were ugly or average, now you're just pretty but fake, at least that's the public perception. At least for me, when someone calls me hot or whatever I don't feel good, I feel embarrased 'cause they compliment a contructed image. It makes me feel awful. I look into the mirror and wonder how I would've looked if I wasn't encouraged to get anything done. I get anxious about people seeing past pics of me. It truly feels like living a double life. There's so many more things to say about this.

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