Rose Kerr
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All In The Mind · Pretty privilege, surgery stigma and the cosmetic procedure paradox · 25 Apr 2026
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A recent example for me was when the final season of Stranger Things came out.
People were kind of making fun of Millie Bobby Brown's lips because it looked like she had had filler done.
Yeah, it's like an elephant in the room, right?
You can tell someone's face looks different and then seemingly people can react in quite a negative way.
And seeing these conversations play out online got me interested in how we view other people who've had cosmetic procedures.
So I spoke to a researcher who's done work looking at just that.
In 2021, Sarah and her team published a paper in PLOS One titled Under the Knife, Unfavourable Perceptions of Women Who Seek Plastic Surgery.
The photos were paired with descriptions of activities that the women were doing.
They presented these images and descriptions to nearly 1,000 adults, asking them to rate the women based on various traits.
Wow.
But then...
Unless you're not attractive because then it's fair enough.
What do you think this kind of tells us about society's attitudes towards cosmetic procedures broadly?
Sarah has continued her research in this area through interviewing women about their experiences of cosmetic surgery stigma.
Some of these were worked on with Professor Gemma Sharp and we'll link to them and others we've mentioned on our website.
But through these studies, Sarah has found that women who have had work done to their appearance were very aware of the stigma they may face.
Sana, I'm keen to get your thoughts on something we've not mentioned yet, which is how the popularity and normalisation of cosmetic procedures impacts our view of aging.
Like, so many treatments are focused on lifting the face or reducing wrinkles.
Like, I want to know, do all these things impact how we view our own faces when they do start looking older?
What do you reckon?
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