What’s wrong with plastic surgery?

Beyond Today

BBC

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4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2019

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Plastic surgery has never been cheaper or more accessible. The industry is booming: it’s worth an estimated £19 billion. The results of cosmetic self- improvement are readily available on Instagram, and appear in the breaks of Love Island. More people than ever are considering going under the knife. Despite all the moralising about plastic surgery, it doesn’t seem to put people off seeking it. We speak to Mobeen Azhar who made TV programme where people seeking surgery watch procedures live on screen, and Christine Rosen, an academic who has been charting its cultural rise. They explore why people are seeking it, the dilemmas of normalising of plastic surgery. Presented by Tina Daheley. Editor John Shields.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:04.6	Hello, I'm Tina Dehealey.
0:08.6	Welcome to Beyond Today from BBC Radio 4,
0:11.4	a space to ask one big question about one big story.
0:15.0	Today, what's wrong with plastic surgery? open this is an open so we've opened the skin here
0:34.0	we've just put this part of the nose there
0:36.0	a clothes right past is where you don't make that incision there
0:39.0	Oh my God I can't how you showing this to me how is this allowed to be on TV this is just the um this is just the start of it
0:51.0	I'm really sorry I have to shut it sorry Lucy it it's something a lot of us have
0:58.4	probably thought about possibly even considered.
1:03.4	Many of us have googled before and after photos
1:06.1	are famous people or wondered what it would be like
1:09.4	to have one of the perfect bodies
1:11.6	advertised in the breaks of Love Island.
1:14.0	After looking into it, I decided to do something about it, and I went to transform for breast surgery.
1:19.0	I know you're not supposed to say it, but I think I look look great and I feel like me again.
1:23.4	To date the inquest into the death of a 29 year old woman.
1:27.3	A young mother of three from crossgates in Leeds, Leah Cambridge who despite being
1:31.4	told how beautiful she was felt the need to have
1:33.8	cosmetic surgery she went to a clinic in Turkey where she had a Brazilian
1:38.0	butt lift procedure that went wrong she died when fat entered her circulatory system and eventually blocked
1:46.0	her pulmonary artery. But despite the risks, globally the cosmetic surgery industry
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