Former beauty queen Solange Magnano died from plastic surgery complications on Sunday. She was Miss Argentina in 1994, and is the mother of 7-year old twins. 1 in 30 Argentines have had plastic surgery, according to CNN.
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I used to be against plastic surgery on some sort of abstract moral grounds, and I'm over that now. But it does seem that more often than not people with plastic surgery look worse, not better, and now you can add death to the list of potential complications. People should spend a lot more time thinking about the risks before they do stuff like this.
Died from complications of having her ass enlarged....
Right.
Could you imagine being those children, growing up knowing your mom died because she wanted a bigger ass for men to oogle?
Plastic surgery is fucked up. Most of these celebrities look like monsters fitted with chiclet white teeth afterwards and for what?
We can only hope that the octomom succumbs to a similar fate before having another litter... FOR GREAT JUSTICE!
It's screwed up -- and it's a very rare case that someone looks better after plastic surgery done for aesthetic reasons -- but the billions of dollars that flow into plastic surgery purely for vanity projects have made reconstructive surgery really pretty amazing. Lots of these plastics guys fly off to Guatemala or the Philippines or whatever and spend weeks putting cleft palates back together. Good folks, them.
Guess that obsession over appearance finally bit her in the ass.
Yeah - down with body modification!
It is evil! All the people with tattoos and piercings should get blood poisoning! Hopefully chemicals will slowly leach into those who color their hair! And those who wear corsets and bras should be strangled by these unnatural contraptions!
Sounds like a karma ran over her dogma.
it's too bad, but it sounds like she died from complications that could have been from any invasive surgery. i think a fair rephrase would be: died from complications from elective surgery, and that's what i would tell her kids. we are, after all, talking about someone for whom ass embiggenment may well have been a career move. i'm with anon#5 on this.
and before we go condemning plastic surgery in general let's not forget that reconstructive plastic surgery is truly a great thing for anyone disfigured, including war wounds and breast cancer. just sayin'.
My thoughts exactly, #5. Somehow the cool kids have divided up body modifications into "good" and "bad," where the one supposedly being a sign of people being creative and the other a sign of vanity and conformity.
Incidentally, Kanye West's mother died of plastic surgery complications, too.
Nw cn sy "stpd btch" wtht bng clld wmn htr? Basically, she decided her ass was more important to her than her kids.
No, BenPosch, you can't. If you really must insult the subject of a post, try using an insult that isn't specific to one sex (or race).
Whoa. You make it sound like she went into this expecting death. This was a complication that shouldn't have happened.
So, no, she didn't "basically" choose her ass over her kids.
"growing up knowing your mom died because she wanted a bigger ass?" Actually they would probably grow up with a more realistic perspective on human behavior. How many of us are the direct result of our father oggling our mother's ass?!?! We're just primates, face it! How can you think that altering your appearance does not affect your salary, the treatment you get from strangers, etc, etc?
Do think people are judging you by the content of your character? Guess again.
Do think people are judging you by the content of your character? Guess again.
Actually, they do. Not you? Most people on the street don't give two shits about what I (or anyone else) look like. My family, friends and business partners are the ones who matter to my well-being and they do judge me mostly by my character and abilities. I'm not grossly malformed, I take good care of my health, but I'm no Angelina Jolie, far from it. Yet, there is no committee showing up at my door demanding that I get a nose job, get rid of that deep wrinkle on my forehead or get a boob job. I still have a great career, happy life and fantastic people around.
Of course, if you decide you want to be a beauty queen or model more than anything else in life, you'll have to compete and sacrifice other things for it. But in many other circles, you are indeed judged largely by your character, personality and talents. Some people just need to lay off People's magazine and discover life beyond mainstream media and showbiz. It's not that bad.
As far as this woman goes, she made her choice and accepted the risks. ANY invasive surgery is potentially dangerous (the anesthesia alone is risky, even in healthy people). But, hey, people ought to be free to choose their own priorities.
I know it's fucked up and anti-feminist, but I have seen some KILLER fake tits in my time. Now, as to whether or not I could spend an evening with the chick in question.... Not impossible, but doubtful.
Appearance does matter, but it's neither necessary nor sufficient.
I, too, hope to die for Beauty some day.
But not tonight, unfortunately I have laundry to do.
Yes, she chose to have surgery she didn't need to enhance and area of her body which was probably not too shabby to begin with, and it turns out this was tragically vain of her. However, there is no indication that she expected to die or really knew that death was a risk factor. Cosmetic surgery is done every single day. It is a choice people make and the people who sell the surgery to patients talk up the benefits and downplay the risks precisely because it is a choice that people do not have to make. Society tells women and girls that appearance matters, that the weight of one's body is as important as the weight of one's words, that being attractive translates into higher salaries, that beauty equals value. It is really easy to criticize someone for falling prey to societal programming, to sit in smug judgment and pretend that one is above such pettiness, but sadly, we all are the products of our culture. This poor woman would not have chosen this surgery if she knew it would leave her children motherless and it is really insensitive to suggest she deserved it or that she was less of a mother for making the choice she did. She was a woman and, like a lot of us, she grew up in a culture which rewarded her for being beautiful and thought that the maintenance of that beauty was important for her self-worth and her value. She was just another human and she deserves compassion and her children deserve our sympathies.