A new study has revealed that women in the UK who have had cosmetic surgery believe ladies (other than themselves) who have also gone under the knife are 'vain and narcissistic'.
The research was conducted by Dr Debra Gimlin, a sociologist at the University of Aberdeen, who spoke to 80 women aged between 20 and 70 as part of the study.
She concluded that more than half of the women interviewed had created something called a "surgical other" – women who they deemed were obsessive about beauty treatments, though 50 of the women said this was not them.
"In particular, they suggested that whatever she had altered did not really require changing: her breasts were not actually too small; her nose was not really too big," Ms Gimlin asserted.
The study also found that women suggested that others were motivated by vanity rather than need, a category which again was something that they themselves did not fall into.
A recent survey by Mintel found that there has been a 15 per cent increase in the last year in the numbers of women and men trying out Botox for the first time.
Posted by Ella McGinn
Article Last Updated: 06/09/2010 13:37:47
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