OBSESSION WITH THE PERFECT BODY : THE SCANDALOUS EXCESSES OF AESTHETIC MEDECINE | M6 | Zone Interdite

This is an unprecedented change: in cosmetic surgery practices, there are now more patients under 35 than over 50. Young adults and even teenagers totally uninhibited in search of the “perfect” face and body.

To say that twenty years ago, cosmetic surgery was taboo, practiced discreetly by women over 50 to lose weight or rejuvenate. Today, the new generation is totally addicted to the scalpel. They no longer come to rejuvenate, but to have the body and face “fashionable”. Big buttocks, swollen lips, sunken cheeks: these are the trends of the moment. Doctors are even inventing new operations to meet their desires and their methods to seduce young people raise questions. This obsession with the perfect body worries parents and loved ones. Who are these young people, teenagers and adults, for whom surgery has become as commonplace as it is indispensable? What risks do they take by transforming their bodies in this way? From selfie to scalpel, investigation into the excesses of this new phenomenon.