While the current America’s Next Top Model Whitney Thompson is making waves with her stance on full-figured women, a participant on the Australian leg of the show is creating a hubbub with her cosmetic surgery forays.
Alex Girdwood, 20 and a contestant fighting for the crown on Australia’s Next Top Model had collagen injectables pumped into her lips to make them plumper. When the judges and the panel of experts found out about Alex’s plastic surgery attempts needless to say, they were left shocked.
Says Priscilla Leighton-Clarke, the modeling agent responsible for granting the winner the one-year contract, “My line on cosmetic surgery when it comes to young, beautiful girls is leave it well alone”. She goes on to add, “I would never encourage any of my models to have plastic surgery and none of them do - except for one who is in her 30s”.
A lip augmentation treatment is often offered as an element of face lift surgery procedures and results in lips that are plumper then before. Collagen fillers and silicone lip implants are very popular among those in the beauty and glamour business because of the near-perfect pout that it lends.
Many a photograph has been enhanced through face lift and careful Botox use more than it has been via photoshop. But for an aspiring model who has already got past the selection phase of a tough show like Top Model, it is a sign of the mounting pressure laid on the young for physical perfection.
What are your views on Alex’s decision? Do you think she ought to have had a face surgery procedure like lip augmentation? Let the Plastic Surgery Institute of California know.
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