Cosmetic Surgery Popular Among Younger Women

Cosmetic Surgery Popular Among Younger Women WKRN.COM: "[May 8, 2006, 7:24 am]
'Cosmetic Surgery Popular Among Younger Women'
Among surgical cosmetic procedures, breast augmentations are the second most popular. The number of women having the procedure slumped in the early nineties when silicone implants were banned. Now, the procedure is more popular than ever.

Lori Brewer, 24, just graduated from Vanderbilt Law School. She'll start the next phase of her life as a corporate attorney at a firm in North Carolina at the end of the month. She's proud of her success and decided to reward herself with something she's been wanting for several years, breast implants. “I just like the way fake breasts look, the look of the implant, the feel, the roundness, I really just thought it was more attractive and it was something I wanted,” she said.

More and more women, like Brewer, are going under...

...the knife. The American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery said doctors performed more than 350,000 breast augmentations in 2005. That's up 9% from the year before.

Brewer said she has many friends who also have implants. She said she was at a gathering a few nights ago where there was only one girl out of about 20 or 30 who had natural breasts.

Sarah Ferry is a 24-year-old sales assistant, graduate student and new mom. She said after breast feeding her daughter she went from a C-cup to an A-cup and felt insecure about her body.
Breast implants restored her confidence. “I'm still young and I'm single so I wanted to have a good self image and be for confident about myself when I go out,” she said. "