[Fredslist] Snap this away

[Fred Klein]

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Snap this away

There's a new trend called “Snapchat dysmorphia,” where people are seeking out cosmetic surgery to look like the filtered and edited version of themselves shared on social media platforms like Snapchat.

If you're unfamiliar with Snapchat, you can easily make your face thinner, eyes bigger, nose smaller, etc. What's happening is that plastic surgeons are noticing that more and more patients are coming into their offices in hopes of appearing like a filtered version of themselves in real life. People used to go to a surgeon’s office with a photo of a celebrity they were hoping to look like or at least use as a model for a certain feature that they wanted. But now they are coming in with edited and filtered photos of themselves.

“Sometimes I have patients who say, ‘I want every single spot gone, and I want it gone by this week or I want it gone tomorrow,’ because that’s what this filtered photograph gave them,” Dr. Neelam Vashi, an assistant professor of dermatology at the Boston University School of Medicine, told The Washington Post. “They check off one thing, and it’s gone. That’s not realistic. I can’t do that."

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