It has been a trend for a while now, plastic surgery. Everyone is doing it. Well, the celebrities at least. Plastic surgery has been used for many purposes. After an injury or accident to restore your looks to the best possible similarity as you used to look. This type of plastic surgery is called restorative surgery. What we are talking about in this article is cosmetic surgery. Getting a nose job, boob job, face lift etc. We have seen it all, horrible surgery to flattering accentuations of your bodily features. So would you consider undergoing plastic surgery?
Insecurity of a child celebrity
Once a child star in the long forgotten nostalgic show of “Little House On The Prairie” Melissa Gilbert is no longer a child celebrity. Melissa Gilbert has had implants for over twenty years, and recently decided to remove them. A move very controversial in the Hollywood scene. Her fascination with having bigger breasts started during her time in “Little House On The Prairie” where “Nellie Oleson” played her arch-rival. Off screen they were best friends. However when Melissa was only 16 she was told that she needed to wear padded bras. An A cup was not enough, and she needed at least a B cup according to the producers of the series. At the same time her counterpart in the famous series started developing. Melissa Gilbert however did not start developing curves and Melissa Gilbert started to get more and more insecure. Eventually she decided to get breast implants starting to go to a B/C cup and eventually going to a double D. She basically caved under the pressure of the media and the image of how women should look like back then portrayed by the media. This is an issue for lots of teenage girls. Are you insecure about your looks?
Reversing the surgery
After having many relationships fail, she finally decided to have her breast implants removed. She told the media that all it did was make her self-image worse at the end, and blames her first relationship for the lion’s part of her insecurity. Even though she captured the hearts of everyone in “Little House On The Prairie” her life has been a lot less than the series. Melissa Gilbert has went through lots of problems with alcohol, drugs, depression and bad relationships. Looking back at all the hard times Melissa Gilbert had to face many consider it a controversial and very inspiring move to have her implants removed. In a time where all the other celebs are just adding on to themselves.
Melissa before and after surgery
Besides having her famous breast implants done, Melissa Gilbert has allegedly done some facial work as well. When you look at her before and after pictures it is clear to see that she has at least had some filling done in her lips and a couple of Botox shots in her skin to fight the wrinkles. Though it is one of the most natural plastic surgery jobs seen out there in Hollywood, she does show a few signs of having done a small nose job as well. All in all the signs are very subtle and hard to see, and whoever has done her plastic surgery has done an amazing job to make her look this natural. We all know the horrible examples of when plastic surgery turns bad, but considering the way Melissa Gilbert look, would you do it?
