How much do young people want to be like Instagram influencers?
Surgeon Aurélie Fabié-Boulard tells, Monday, on Europe 1, the story of those who put themselves in danger to look like their favorite stars by having recourse to a form of cosmetic surgery which is not always safe.
To have lips as full as their idols straight from reality TV.
It is the dream of many young women who take the plunge into cosmetic surgery.
According to the latest IMCAS plastic surgery congress, women aged 18 to 34 now resort to cosmetic surgery more than women aged 35 to 50.
An observation shared by the surgeon Aurélie Fabié-Boulard, guest of Mélanie Gomez and Jimmy Mohamed in the program
Sans Rendez-vous
, on Europe 1. She describes these surgical interventions which are not always supervised.
Women who find, "very often, their model on Instagram"
Cosmetic surgery is not just a matter of facelifts.
Lots of young women flock to the cabinets to be able to look like real stars of reality TV.
"These young women who ask us for lip injections, very often find their models on Instagram", assures Aurélie Fabié-Boulard, also the vice-president of the learned society grouping together cosmetic surgeons.
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But "the problem" for the surgeon "is all these young women who make excessive demands on us" concerning their lips.
"We spend a lot of time explaining to them that it is dangerous, that it should not be done. Some of them forget that they have already had injections and will continue. Sometimes, they exceed the necessary security conditions ", deplores the specialist.
"Illicit injectors, who have no training"
And when professional cosmetic surgeons do not wish to respond to their requests or they find the quotes too expensive, these young women sometimes turn directly to Instagram, or some do not hesitate to offer illegal injections.
"The information is free on Instagram and this allows some young people, can be less suspicious of leading to the possibilities of injections which are offered at a lower cost", warns Aurélie Fabié-Boulard.
"They are not doctors, but illicit injectors, who have no training to exercise a profession. If there is a problem, they leave these people in total disarray."
But the surgeon wants to be reassuring all the same, because even if "there is a section of people who are attracted by this very superficial and superlative side of all the erotic criteria that men and women can have, it is not the benchmark of all youth ".
She adds: "Some people just have the curiosity to watch."