Katie Halper
March 26, 2008 |
10:20 pm EST
Inverted Areola and asymmetrical breasts were what made Stephanie Kuleba have breast augmentation, which caused the malignant hyperthermia which killed her. After the procedure, the 18-year old cheerleader from Florida died as a result of malignant hyperthermia, a condition that can be triggered by certain anesthesia where the body heats up to dangerous levels. Obviously, this is a personal tragedy. The death of a young person during surgery is tragic. But what makes this more tragic is that the operation which killed Kuleba was an “elective” cosmetic procedure. I say “elective” because the “choice” to undergo an operation to conform to unfair and unrealistic standards of beauty is, perhaps, a choice in name only. Even more tragically, more and more women and young girls are getting breast augmentation: according to the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, the number of women 18 and younger who have had breast enlargements has risen nearly 500 percent over the past decade (the number has risen by only 300 percent among all age groups). Breast augmentation, which costs on average $4,000, is the most popular plastic surgery.
What makes so many women and girls do this, you may be asking your self. I was wondering about that myself and accidentally found part of the answer. While looking for information about the story online, I stumbled upon a seemingly unrelated, but ultimately very related story about a new website called “Miss Bimbo” which describes itself as a “virtual fashion game for girls.” When you sign up to play the game, you are given a naked female character and encouraged to compete against other players to become “hottest, coolest, most famous bimbo in the whole 
world.” The game coaches the players– the 200,000 girls aged 7-17 who play the game– to “stop at nothing,” not even “meds or plastic surgery,” to win. Missions include buying and taking diet pills which cost 100 bimbo dollars. You can even eat “every now and then” but you must stay “waif thin.” Another mission you are given is to find a rich boyfriend: “Bimbo dollars is ‘the cabbage,’ ‘bread,’ the ‘mula’ you’ll need to buy nice things and to get by in bimbo world. To earn some bimbo cash you will have to (gasp) work or find a boyfriend to be your sugar daddy and hook you up with a phat expense account!” And of course, no game called Miss Bimbo would be complete without encouraging their young female players to get breast implants, which will cost you 11,500 bimbo dollars, but get you 2,000 bimbo attitudes, making you more popular on the site. Yay!
Now before any feminazis get their panties in a bunch or call the game sexist, vile, and exploitative, just know that the male creators of the game say it’s “harmless fun.” Although Nicolas Jacquart, the 23-year-old Web designer behind the game acknowledges it’s more than harmless fun– it’s helpful eduction:
It is not a bad influence for young children. They learn to take care of their bimbos. The missions and goals are morally sound and teach children about the real world…. The breast operations are just one part of the game and we are not encouraging young girls to have them, just reflecting real life.
Thanks for showing us the real world Nicolas!
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TakePart Top 10 Weekly Roundup! | TakePart Blog Network March 28, 2008 | 9:32 am ESTI too was diagnosed with MH. I was scheduled to have rhinoplasty surgery approx. 14 yrs ago. At the operating room they straped me onto the operating table all was fine. My doctor had not come into the room yet. The Anest. doctor began to admins. medicine , when all of a sudden I told the nurse that I was burning inside. She said no dont worry you will be fine. I kept trying to tell her when all of a suuden I began to vomit side ways. I remember the doctor rushing in and screaming saying “why did you start this - without my presence. I thank God I was alive to let them know that something was wrong. It was a terrible experience for me. I was 29 years old
barbaraWhy do so many women do it?
lora brunckeMarketing.
Money.
Men.
She’s 18 and by now her parents haven’t given her the confidence to love herself as she is?
c galorThe press is calling her “perfect”. Perfect grades, friends, etc…So plastic surgery is the answer?
What in the world did people do before this “I can’t live without plastic surgery” era? I blame the
parents, not the surgeon. This is an elective surgery, not a life or death decision; what kind od research
did the parents and Stephanie do beforehand? And did they not know of her condition before the
surgery? Once again, everyone else is to blame. I worried about my childs overall health, not concentrate
on the breasts being perfectly the same. God is not vain, we shouldn’t be either…..
Sedu Beauty Tips Skin Care Womens Perfume
I didn’t agree with you first, but last paragraph makes sense for me
Sedu Beauty Tips Skin Care Womens Perfume June 3, 2008 | 4:54 pm ESTI, too, grew up in the Boca Raton are (Parkland, Fl) and elected to have a breast augmentation at age 17. It is just something you do when living in this area.. It is impossible for an outsider to understand the mindset of my cohort in this isolated area of the US, however; if it is what we want, it is what we shall get. It is rather unfortunate that Stephanie died, but she should have been a little wiser in choosing where she had her surgery performed. Malignant Hyperthermia is a rare genetic disorder and I find it hard to believe that it had not shown up in one of her family members beforehand considering almost everyone has some kind of surgery these days. She should have had her surgery performed at a hospital that had adequate reversal meds for this condition, which is completely curable if proper attention is given.
ObserverAny woman, or male for that matter, who would mutilate their body for some false pretense of social acceptance is completely out of touch with reality…
Chuck GriffinAh yes, but that is the case apparently for so many of us in the USA (Unsatisfied Self Affixed).
Lose the TV and the magazines people and begin to realize that the sooner we see each other for the beautiful individual creations that we are, the sooner we can all live full happy lives.