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I would never have cosmetic surgery, but I think people are being a bit unfair on those who do choose to have it because they are not happy with their bodies.

One of my friends had a breast 3 cup sizes larger than the other when she was younger and had to have cosmetic surgery, because although she could fill one cup with padding to even them out, she still felt deformed even though she was entirely healthy.

Burns don't affect your health once they have healed but would you say a burn victim shouldn't have skin grafts? Children can often be born with deformities and we're more than happy to see them made to look more like the way we expect people to look. We let people have harmless moles and warts removed for cosmetic reasons. We empathise with people with unsightly birth marks and in our heads we are glad that we look normal on the outside.

Why shouldn't people who don't look the way they feel they should look, for 'vanity' as some of you seem to put it down to, not have these procedures so they can feel happy in their skin too? They're paying the money to take that risk after all. Those who get the procedures on the NHS are heavily counselled and assessed by specialists before given anything. But for those people on the NHS it could be the difference between finally being able to comfortably have sex with the person they love right through to no longer wanting to kill themselves.

I just think people are too quick to judge an individual for wanting cosmetic surgery. As Scroobius Pip says, things in life ain't always quite what they seem, there's more than any one given angle to any one given scene!