While Christians are taught by priests and ministers to think of the poverty and humility of Mary and Joseph having a baby in a stable, in today’s America, Christmas can look like the season for self-indulgence.
CNN Money’s Emily Jane Fox offered the headline: “All I want for Christmas: Boobs.” The Christmas season is the busiest time of year for plastic surgeons,“because people have time off to get the procedures and then recover.”
“On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me ... two breast implants, a tummy tuck and a rhinoplasty,” Fox began:
Cosmetic surgery is a major splurge, so it's an obvious choice for a gift wish list. The average cost of breast augmentation surgery was $3,678 in 2013, according to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. The average face lift cost was $6,556 and a tummy tuck was $5,217.
....the majority of these gifts come from a significant other. A survey of RealSelf community members found that, of those who had gotten some kind of a procedure as a gift, 75% received it from their romantic partner or spouse.
But this gift idea comes with a caveat: About one third of respondents said they'd be offended if a family member, romantic partner or a friend gifted them a cosmetic procedure.
According to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, 15.1 million people had cosmetic procedures in the U.S. in 2013, up 104% from 2000. “The most common plastic surgery gifts to give are anything involving the face -- from fillers to lifts -- and breast augmentations, according to Dr. Yoel Shahar, a plastic surgeon in New York.”
