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Plastic Surgery Brides!

18 April 2008 | Author: Daisy

If I ever had a frontal lobotomy and decided to get wed, I wonder if I’d go for the increasingly popular option of surgery to help me lose weight or alter my looks. (Hey… perhaps the frontal lobotomy people would do me a deal- two op’s for the price of one, ‘lobotomy’ and ‘lop a bit off my bottom for me’ at the same time?!)

Surgery does seem a bit drastic, especially as these smug ‘married to be’s’ are supposed to have found the love of their life who should adore them no matter what they look like. It’s not meant to be: ‘till death do us part, as long as you keep up the botox and book in for that gastric bypass immediately’!

Okay okay, if I’m completely honest I suppose I can understand a bride wanting to look her best on her big day (and maybe she could get the groom to have a little something enlarged in exchange?!!)… but how far is too far? (I wouldn’t make it as far as the swimming pool, but can always manage a jog to the fridge!)

Gok Wan’s advice is:
‘Think of the underwear you wear with your wedding dress as scaffolding – it isn’t meant to look pretty, it’s meant to make your dress fit fabulously. Aristoc do a brilliant range of hosiery called Bodytoners that give you a smoother, slimmer silhouette in moments – team them with control pants and you’ll completely forget your problem zones. Just make sure you have some gorgeous lingerie to change into for your wedding night!’    (www.youandyourwedding.co.uk)

Can you imagine the hustle and bustle in the hotel bathroom?? Trying to get off a full body stocking and belly holding in pants to boot? Knowing me I wouldn’t be able to get them off and I’d have to enlist the help of my new spouse to peel me like a banana, he’d see me in a whole new light and probably file for divorce immediately! Although I’d probably choose the pain of divorce over the pain of surgery.

More and more brides are opting for drastic measures such as gastric bypasses, one such bride to be reports:
‘I underwent gastric bypass surgery….. to help with my weight loss. I have suffered with my weight since I was 15yrs old. I was determined not to big a big bride on our special day.’   (www.wedding-ideas-magazine.com)

 Unless you’ve been living under a stone for the last few years, you’ll probably know that a gastric bypass involves reducing the size of the stomach. This is done by stapling or banding off a section at the top, to approximately the size of a walnut (bet you didn’t know that bit), so that it can only hold about an ounce of food. This obviously produces dramatic weight loss, but is not without its risks. Just a few of the side effects include malnutrition, nausea, diarrhea after eating, gallstones caused by rapid weight loss and depression (you don’t say… I know I would be depressed if I could only eat an ounce of food at a time).

If you didn’t want to go under the knife you could opt for the exercise/weight loss holiday. (Note: I use the term ‘holiday’ very loosely here.. it is certainly not a definition that sits well with me!) ‘Fitfarms’ opens in Staffordshire in August 2008. They run 7 day and weekend courses and claim not to employ a boot camp mentality but say the aim is to educate and kick start a healthy exercise and nutrition regime. The cost for a weeks stay is £979, or £799 if you share a room. (I think room sharing would be a dangerous option for me here, I’d probably end up eating the other person!) The exercise part of the ‘holiday’ consists of around 2-3 hours of cardio workout each day. They also provide mineral testing and life coaching, it sounds like hard work to me, but a slightly less grueling option than the boot camp style ‘holidays’ desperate brides are now booking onto…

…and it’s not just us average Joe’s.. even the celebs are signing up for boot camp. The one in the Brecon Beacons is soooo secret that the guests are blindfolded before being taken there! (Does a website article researcher/writer count as a celebrity? Mind you, they’d not only have to blindfold me to get me there, they’d also have to drag me kicking and screaming, none of that, ‘Yes sir, no sir!’ business for me, more like, ‘No thank you sir, where is the nearest cake shop… sir?’) It costs £950 for the week and the victims work out from 6am to 6pm The average weight loss for a weeks stay is 13lb, which would equate to a whole dress size.

One bride to be who visited the ‘New You Boot Camp’ reported:
‘I didn’t have to think twice about spending the money. I was so desperate.’
‘At the camp, ex-military men trained us in everything from body confidence and nutrition classes through to boxing, cycling, core training, obstacle courses and yoga.’
‘It was exhausting and I was in tears at times.’
‘After a week at boot camp I’d lost 11lb and dropped from a size 14/16 to 10/12.’
‘The size 12 wedding dress I’d bought fitted perfectly, and I felt amazing on the day.’
‘The pain was totally worth it.’ (www.fabulousmag.co.uk)

With such dramatic weight loss in a week, you can see why brides would be tempted, but my cynical side tells me that the whole lot would pile back on during the honeymoon, all that lazing on the beach and gazing lovingly into your partner’s eyes over three course a la carte meals, is surely not conducive to staying trim?! But hey… if it’s just the photos and the day you are concerned about then I guess it is a means to an end. What brides should remember is that yo-yoing in this way is not healthy, and each time you lose weight quickly then put it back on, you are more likely to become heavier than you were to start with.

So, after pondering these various options, my message to brides is this… You are lucky enough to have found someone who loves you, and who you want to be with forever… don’t lose sight of the fact that THIS is why you are getting married. Enjoy your day celebrating your special love, instead of being obsessed with the more superficial things in life. (And if I happen to be at your wedding…perhaps throw the bouquet in my direction… after all, frontal lobotomies can’t be that bad!!)

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