The “Water Cooler” is a feature on Claycord.com where we ask you a question or provide a topic, and you talk about it.
The “Water Cooler” will be up Monday-Friday at noon.
Today’s question:
If your health insurance company would pay for it, would you get plastic surgery done on your body?
Talk about it….
Not gonna happen
Maybe
All you have to do is look at Brazil to see what a bad idea that is.
When I look in the mirror, I always think I look just a tad overweight, but my clothes still fit and when I stand on the scale, I’m the same weight I’ve been most of my adult life. What I’m saying is, we tend to view our bodies differently than what others see. People are always telling me I look good and that I look 10 or 15 years younger than I actually am. So to answer the question, no, I wouldn’t change a thing. That doesn’t mean I’m against cosmetic surgery. If a person is dissatisfied with the way they look, and if insurance would cover it, then why not go for it?. Just don’t do it because it’s a fad, and everybody else is doing it. I’ve noticed a lot of women getting their lips done, and they look like suction cups.
lipo or body contouring (i.e., minor fat removal), yes…anything else, most likely not
I just find it odd that when I go into Safeway on Clayton Rd, or Lucky’s on Clayton, they are full of ordinary, unremarkable people. When I go into the Clayton Safeway, I almost always see women with Frankenfaces. Is that some kind of Oakhurst membership requirement?
No. If others want to go under the knife, that’s okay. It’s just not me.
Nope. I earned every wrinkle I have and plan to keep them. I know it’s important to some to change something for their own reasons.
Nope. I’ll play the hand I was dealt.
I would only do Plastic Surgery if something needed repair,… like:
Car accident and face was damaged badly,….as it is, I do have a scar across my lower lip from falling face first on cement and broke teeth too.
Breast Cancer and needed reconstructive surgery,…or might remove the other one to balance out,…LOL!
Stuff like Facelift,…no, since most people I’ve seen,…it didn’t improve the sour personally of the ones who did.
Ouch! but the last sentence cracked me up Roz. Made my day right from the start.
It’s not the money that’s keeping me from getting plastic surgery now. It’s the fact that I don’t want any surgery. If I had some sort of physical deformity, I might consider surgery to help me look normal. But I don’t, and I’m perfectly happy with my average looks.
Don’t need PS…but to each his own
What makes you think the insurance company is paying for it? That idea is a corollary to “If you subsidize it, you’ll get more of it.”
The insurance will pay if it is something that is a hinderance to normal living. As you get older you upper eye lids tend to droop, if they droop to the point of impairing your vision the insurance will pay. My physician seem to think I might be a candidate, but my eyesight is not affected, and I would have to pay 20%, I’m not crazy about any kind of surgery. However, I wouldn’t mind looking younger, especially since I’m still working. If I had the money and the time I would probably pay for eye surgery myself, not only upper lids, but also under your eyes, and I could see getting what is called a “lifestyle lift”, to firm up your chin that would make a big difference in how I look. Although I’m not entirely unhappy with my looks at my age, but I think most of us would like to look as good as possible as long as possible. Some celebrities has had so much plastic surgery they don’t look themselves anymore. I agree lip implants are usually not attractive. Look at the difference with the Kardashian sisters and natural beauties like Ingrid Bergman, Lauren Bacall and Audrey Hepburn.
No thank you.
Now that I can identify as anything or anyone I want, no surgery is necessary. And if you don’t like it, then stay the heck out of the ladies room….and the men’s room.
I would like to have my brain enlarged – I could always use more brain.
Why mess with perfection?
(You knew someone was gonna say it).
I might consider a bit of lipo but other than that would only do it if it was part of a bigger medical procedure, like reconstruction after a mastectomy or repair after an accident or severe burn
Only to correct a scar or damage from an accident or an ungodly lump or growth.
Growing up, during the holidays – my uncle when seeing me would look at my profile and comment to my dad, “he didn’t get it yet”. He was referring to the massive Italian nose that they all had. Well, thank goodness (and my mom’s genes) I didn’t get the big honkin’ nose, however I was already self conscious of it.
Fast forward to the computer age and photoshop….I actually manipulated a few photos of my nose from profile and straight on & the results in my opinion were that a slimmer or smaller nose made me look too feminine – so I kept my nose.
PS: I also came across testimonials of people who had breathing issues after a rhinoplasty.
In a hot minute.
I believe in one life and beauty as a woman first inside and out. My take. After three pregnancies, one lost and two others all natural, have only had two surgeries. So if offered, yes. Good genetics are on my side, but I believe in beauty and pleasure in life in an unselfish form.
First, I’d do it for me and of course it would be a plus for any new man in my life.
Don’t really know. I’ve heard a lot of horror stories.
Hey if it’s not going to cost me much, why not! I’ll go for some nose enhancement.
After what a local dentist did to my face there is nothing about me that I’d want taken off or out at this moment or the foreseeable future by some doofus or anyone else. And after having radiation therapy and the passing of ten years, if I wanted to see my perfectly matched set of boobs ever again I’d need a half a boob job, but it isn’t worth it to me. I don’t care very much, and also I don’t do well with extra stuff on me that I can’t take off. It’s one perky B and one voluptuous C, and I just don’t care. As far as I’ve ever been concerned boobs are a PITA anyway, except for that one time I needed them for their true purpose, but they let me down after five weeks then, so… But if we’re speaking of reconstructive surgery, I’d look at that in a completely different light.