14 DAY TRIAL // As a child model, Nicolette Taylor from Long Island, NY, was incredibly pretty. However, at age 2 and 8, she broke her nose – and it remained crooked until just recently, when she went under the knife to have it fixed. It represented her biggest problem.
ABC’s Nightline ran a special on the 13-year-old girl for whom bullying and teasing in school got so bad that she often come home crying.
You can see it in full in the video below, embedded at the end of the article.
Nicolette, a perfectly normal teenager, is just one of the many girls of her age to turn to plastic surgery to be able to deal with bullying which, they say, is ruining their life.
Online, the teasing is even worse, the teen tells ABC. On Facebook alone, she was bullied so many times that she even considered shutting down her account completely.
Her parents, though, offered her an alternative: that of getting rhinoplasty. This way, they believe, they eliminate the cause of all evil and make their daughter happy.
“I was like, ‘If this is really hurting her like this, then she has to be feeling insecure and horrible about herself.’ That made me pick up the phone and make an appointment for a consultation,” her mother says for the same segment.
They went to Dr. Sam Rizk, a surgeon in Manhattan, who says 250,000 of his clients have been teens, most of them dealing with the same problem as Nicolette.
She was, however, his youngest to date.
While experts may argue that it would be better to just let the child face the bullies and build character in the process, Dr. Rizk says the intervention doesn’t come with any risk as long as certain conditions are met.
In Nicolette’s case, they were. Moreover, if the bullying is caused by something that can be fixed, why not do it, he says.
Check out the video below to see pro and con arguments on plastic surgery on children, especially teens.
