After seeing Meg Ryan almost unrecognizable, we wonder, does non-reconstructive plastic surgery really improve self-esteem?
Meg Ryan surprised the entire world at the current Paris Fashion Week by showing a new face, no longer as natural as the one he had in the 90s; that is, for wanting to look better, she, like many other women, ends up looking worse, further reducing the self-esteem they were trying to improve.
It is not the first plastic surgery to which this 53-year-old actress has undergone, and it is getting worse and worse. We consulted the psychologist André Didyme Dome about the relationship between plastic surgery and self-esteem and he reminded us that the meaning of these procedures is to rebuild or repair parts of the body that were affected by accidents, injuries or malformations.
The expert explains that there are 3 concepts to clarify: self-image, self-concept and self-esteem.
- The self image is the perception we have of our body
- self-image leads to selfconceptwhich is how we define ourselves in front of others
- Self-image and self-concept lead to self esteemwhich is the love you have for yourself
The idea is that the person does not suffer for his image, because a bad self-image, product of a malformation or injury, affects our self-concept (I am deformed, I am a monster) and ends up affecting self-esteemExplain.
Plastic surgery does serve, then, to improve our self-image, the problem arises when the self-concept does not match the self-image; that is, the person can have a poor self-concept without having a poor self-image and that can lead to the illusion of feeling deformed, monstrous or ugly without actually being socausing dysmorphia, which is seeing yourself differently from how others see you.
If a person only refers to himself from the outside, his self-concept will always be poor and the desire for bodily perfection can lead to addiction to surgeries. The irony is that while the person believes that she looks beautiful as a result of her surgeries (Meg Ryan, Renee Zellwegger, Joan Rivers, etc.), everyone else sees the person as someone deformed and horrible as a result of these procedures.clarifies.
The psychologist concludes that surgery addiction is the product of superficial, narcissistic, self-referential behavior and fragile self-esteem, caused by a poor self-concept. That’s why, does not believe that Meg Ryan has improved her self-esteem after surgery, because ending her natural beauty says a lot about her poor self-conceptIn addition, their self-image does not match the perception of others.
What do you think? Do you think that non-reconstructive plastic surgeries do improve self-esteem? Write us what you think in the comments of this note.