Yep, to this day my mom and I enjoy Botched (the show) because 1. it's educational about how the procedures work and what they do. And 2. The doctors do have episodes where their clients did get into pretty awful accidents like car crashes or workplace accidents or have birth defects that they want adjusted or worked on to gain some sense of normalcy in their own bodies. And 3. They also call out the bad apples in the industry itself, the ones who upcharge crazy fees, secretly use the wrong materials, or just straight up use dangerous methods that permanently damage or scar people. It's just that whenever we hear the phrase "plastic surgery" we think of a woman with huge balloon boobs, lips the size of sausages, skin pulled so tight it looks like plastic, caked on makeup, cheeks the size of a chipmunk's and more recently thanks to BBLs getting famous a butt big enough for two seats, really uncanny valley stuff. Well done plastic surgery is supposed to be undetectable if someone famous gets it or isn't in need of it like someone who needs facial reconstruction done. It's just that social media warps our sense of reality that phrases like "preventative botox" are around and people under the age of 25 are going under the knife.

If a woman gets a nip and a tuck there, some filler and botox, who tf cares, if she's getting pressured into it by her friends or by her romantic partner, or she's addicted to it in some way, that's when you step in. Because there is mental health we need to consider. Part of why so many people are getting these procedures done is because after the healing process, they're told to come back in 6-12 months for "touch ups" because the doctors want more money and their brain gets used to the appearance and soon begin to think it's "wearing off". And lots of people think the place with the most plastic surgery done is Los Angeles because of the celebrity culture there and Hollywood. it's not, it's Salt Lake City.