Like anyone inspecting their own body, Melissa could see things no one else could see. “But here,” said Melissa, pressing the dip she could see in her right buttock, a flaw she’d noticed while on holiday. “You’ve kind of gained here,” she said, pointing at Melissa’s midriff. Glancey proceeded to work her way round Melissa’s figure, considering its contours with bracing candour.
“This side,” said Melissa, indicating her left flank. Together, doctor and patient stood in front of the mirror and stared. After a quick chat, Glancey – dark blue scrubs, coral toenails – asked Melissa to take off her clothes. When Melissa walked into the room, she didn’t exactly resemble her digital self, but then, who does? She’d swapped Dubai-luxe for Suffolk-casual – blue jeans and a pink sweater. “I said to her, I don’t see what else we can do.” “Look how good she looks,” said Glancey, admiring Melissa and her own work. As she waited for Melissa to arrive, Glancey showed me a picture of Melissa on the beach in Dubai, wearing a palm-print bikini and posing in a kind of provocative crouch – arms, breasts, thighs and buttocks all arranged for optimum effect. Glancey had performed Melissa’s first BBL at her clinic on the Essex-Suffolk borders, a suite of rooms boasting shining white cupboards, a full-length mirror and drawers stuffed with syringes. On a recent afternoon, Melissa visited the British aesthetic surgeon Dr Lucy Glancey for a consultation. Melissa’s bottom was already rounder and fuller than before, and she was delighted by the effect, with how it made her feel and how it made her look. In 2018, she’d had a Brazilian butt lift, known as a BBL, a surgical procedure in which fat is removed from various parts of the body and then injected back into the buttocks. In her mind, it resembled a plump, ripe peach, like the emoji. Victoria’s Secret undies “aren’t the problem-they’re merely a symptom of it.The quest was simple: Melissa wanted the perfect bottom. Fashion and celebrity magazines and pop music are packed with pouting, sexualized tweens and teens. Prada recently had a campaign that featured 13-year-old model Ondria Hardin suggestively caressing herself, while Lacoste paraded a braless 15-year-old Lindsey Wixson on a runway wearing a see-through shirt. The sexualization of minors is a widespread phenomenon involving dozens of fashion and media companies. That Puritan mind-set, however, reduces girls to their bodies more than any lingerie line could.īesides, why pick on Victoria’s Secret alone? asked Amy Odell in. But in the classic “Girls in Peril” narrative of social conservatives, self-respect is only compatible with “sexual purity.” No good girl ever thinks about sex. Teens need this time to experiment, make mistakes, and “figure out who they are before adulthood complicates things.” Believe it or not, said Jenna Sauers in, a teenage girl can be a good student and wear a thong at the same time. If they’re not “doing it” by then, they’re definitely thinking about doing it. The average American loses their virginity at 17, and by the age of 19 almost 70 percent are sexually active. By age 15, girls growing up in our modern culture are hardly interested in the “Hello Kitty” undies that their protective parents might prefer them to wear.
Time for a reality check, said Amanda Marcotte in. Now Victoria’s Secret is telling girls still in the throes of puberty to adopt the come-hither sexuality of its hottie supermodels, “way before a girl is mature enough to handle it.” I ask you: “Do you want anyone ‘Feeling Lucky’ with your 15-year-old?” That’s why an astonishing 78 percent of them are unhappy with their bodies by the age of 17, and why so many struggle with eating disorders. Adolescent girls already face enormous pressure in our culture to grow up way too fast. The undies include lacy panties and thongs bearing such inscriptions as “Wild,” “Call me,” “Now or Never,” and “Feeling Lucky.” Tens of thousands of parents have signed an online petition in protest, and for good reason. The lingerie giant has caused an uproar with its “Bright Young Things” advertising campaign, for a raunchy set of underwear marketed directly at teens and tweens. Victoria’s Secret is coming for your teenage daughters, said Beth Capriotti in.
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