Plastic surgery increase
Updated on 16 January 2006
A huge rise in the number of people having plastic surgery, but why the increase?
Nip and Tuck, Make Me Perfect, Extreme Makeover, Ten Years Younger - you can't turn on the television without seeing someone subjecting themselves, voluntarily, to the scalpel.
But it seems life is imitating art - so to speak. Today the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons said that in the past year the number of the people undergoing cosmetic surgery has gone up by a third.
So why are so many people so eager to change the way they look - despite the costs and the risks? Emily Reuben reports.
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