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I've always been against plastic surgery. Mainly because I've had the "well, this is how I look, I just have to deal with it" and mainly because my problem with not liking myself never really was purely physical. I think it's like that for a lot of people who have plastic surgeries. They have a picture of how they look and they don't see the reality. So imagine my surprise when I browse around our daily newspaper (same as always, of course) and find this:

Men will donate money to breast enlargement and liposuction.

HOLLYWOOD. Here's the site that entices free plastic surgeries.
Behind the bizarre idea in Los Angeles are two Scandinavians.
'We want to make the world a little bit prettier', says one of the two founders,

Swedish Martin Wahlström.

"Operation perfect" is intended to men. The duo use pictures of semi-naked women in order to get the visitors to open their wallets.
'Yes it's like that. The girls want to be seen and the guys want to look', Wahlström says.
The idea, which is launched this week, is built on donations.
Without contributions there will be no operation.

First out is a Swedish girl who calls herself "Thina". "Today I live in Stockholm. I'm 20. WIth bigger, rounder and sexier breasts I would feel so much sexier" she writes on the site.
So far she has gotten a little more than a percent of the total sum.
'It is up to the girls themselves to decide what kind of operation they want to do. It doesn't have to be breasts. It can be liposuction, butt, thighs.'
No marketing
Wahlström claims that girls are standing in line to be a part of this.
'Without us having done any marketing we've already recieved a few hundred applications. That a Swedish girl is the first one out is a mere coincidence.'

'The goal is to establish the site all over the world. We already have girls from Italy, Germany, South America...'

Promised nightclub life

The girls who are chosen for operations will be sent to Los Angeles, California, where they'll be operated without costs. They are also promised modelling photographing, make-up and nightclub life.
'We have discussions with plastic surgeons who have participated in American "make-over"-shows. They are very interested in this, Wahlström says.
Also the ones who vote or donate can win trips to Los Angeles. On the site two nights at a hotel and a dinner with the girl who won an operation is promised.
'For us the income will be with the advertising on the site, Wahlström says, who has a past at Slitz Magazine and who has launched the now resting project "Glamour of Sweden".

I know that I'm a naïve woman who thinks that everyone should love the world and themselves and that my way of viewing the world might not be they way everyone else sees it, but this... I mean, wouldn't it be better to offer the poor girls therapy? Heck - I'd teach them the phrase "I am great just the way I am" for free.