And also--this doctor is insane.
Is cosmetic surgery the answer to bullying?
Nadia Isle, 14, had been taunted since Grade 1: “Dumbo” and “elephant ears” were the cruel refrains of bullies who took issue with her ears.
By age 10, the Georgia girl was begging her mother for an operation, so Mom did some digging online and found the Little Baby Face Foundation, a non-profit that delivers free surgery to children born with “facial deformities,” kids who in some cases have been bullied.
Mother and daughter flew to New York for an otoplasty, which involves pinning back the ears. Disturbingly, the organization’s founder, Thomas Romo III, decided Nadia needed plenty of work besides her ears, going to town on her entire face.
“I love thin chins, but I don’t want it as pointy as that chin,” Dr. Romo announced. He also gave her a nose job, ostensibly for the purpose of symmetry.
When CNN’s Sanjay Gupta asked the doctor why he decided to operate on facial features neither Nadia or her bullies ever took issue with, Dr. Romo replied, “She didn’t recognize that.” (Globe and Mail - thanks to my bro who sent me the story.)
7 comments:
She was so much more interestingly beautiful before the surgery. So sad.
Agree with Skye. And why on earth did they feel the need to lighten her hair?
So many things wrong with this.
I wonder what the poor kid thought of all the extra surgery he so kindly inflicted on her. Probably believed the whole bullshit story about it all being for her benefit ... and, you think the bullies aren't going to notice?
I have a lot of sympathy for kids with "Dumbo" ears after going to school with a couple of them. Their lives were a living hell.
However, I have no idea why that so-called doctor did all the extras. I hope he didn't have the nerve to charge for them. Then somebody sent her on a beauty "make over" after her surgery. Not only is her hair lightened but the first thing I noticed was the amount of eye brow plucking that was done. Talk about a Pygmalian complex.
Oops! Forgot this was free work done. Doesn't make it any better. Smacks of noblesse oblige.
Reminds me of the book The Uglies, of a society where when a person turns 15 they get state mandated surgery to make them "beautiful."
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