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Saving Face

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	Hear the documentary WARNING: Language contains sexual references not suitable for young children

As cosmetic surgery becomes more affordable, acceptable and available we look at why so many people are choosing to go under the knife. Would you change the way you look?

Find out what happened when glamour model Charlie’s boob job went badly wrong. And we hear why Sean chose to have a tummy tuck when he was only 19.

We also hear from the experts on the risks involved in cosmetic surgery and how to to go about it in the right way.

In 2006 1Xtra News carried out the UK’s largest ever sex survey. We discovered that 1 in 10 18-24 year-olds hated their bodies and the way they looked.

Would you ever go under the knife? What would you have done? Or are you proud of your body? What do you think of people who've had cosmetic surgery?

Rogier HCM Want
That Sean guy talks a lot of sense!

CM
Deal to the society's obsession of beauty and good looks, we all tends to compare ourselves to those photoshop beauties on magazines. The only thing is, for most, we don't need plastic surgery, we just need self confidence in whatever shelf we live in. You can fix one thing, and once you start, you'll just find more faults you think you can fix. It is a vicious cycle. Nobody has the perfect body, even models and skinny people find faults in their body.

shiv bs
i would go under the knife, reason being that my boobs are to big for me to handle and it doesn't help with the course i'm doing in college, i am happy with the size i have (36E) but it can be annoying when i get attention because of it. i think if you aint happy with what you have then you might aswell make yourself happy by doing what will make you happy and not because of what someone else thinks of you but by what you think.