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There's a new trend called “Snapchat dysmorphia,” where people are seeking out cosmetic surgery to look like the filtered and edited version of themselves shared on social media platforms like Snapchat.

 

If you're unfamiliar with Snapchat, you can easily make your face thinner, eyes bigger, nose smaller, etc. What's happening is that plastic surgeons are noticing that more and more patients are coming into their offices in hopes of appearing like a filtered version of themselves in real life. People used to go to a surgeon’s office with a photo of a celebrity they were hoping to look like or at least use as a model for a certain feature that they wanted. But now they are coming in with edited and filtered photos of themselves.

 

“Sometimes I have patients who say, ‘I want every single spot gone, and I want it gone by this week or I want it gone tomorrow,’ because that’s what this filtered photograph gave them,” Dr. Neelam Vashi, an assistant professor of dermatology at the Boston University School of Medicine, told The Washington Post. “They check off one thing, and it’s gone. That’s not realistic. I can’t do that."

Comments

Fred Klein

I see Head Shots which are far from reality.
Norman Spizz

My wife just got plastic surgery. I cut up her credit cards
Norman Spizz

My wife just had plastic surgery. I cut up her credit cards
Corey Bearak

I like when someone comments I look young in a photo. If it were Dr.’d I can assure all not by the correspondent
Cayce Crown

If you don't like your reflection, smashing the mirror won't help. Or getting plastic surgery. Unfortunately, there is a lot of distortion out there.
Hopefully, we can support people into loving themselves exactly as they are, starting with ourselves.

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