(22 Aug 2004)
August 19, 2004
1. Aerial of Ipanema and Leblon beach
2. Wide of woman at beach shore
3. Pan of young women walking on the sands of Ipanema Beach
August 18, 2004
4. Model Juliana Jardim taking her jacket off during medical appointment
5. Zoom-out from prosthesis made of polyurethane in the hands of doctor to wide of doctor talking to Jardim
6. Shot of Juliana Jardim
7. SOUNDBITE: (Portuguese) Juliana Jardim, Model:
“My mother was against it at the beginning, but I ended up convincing her (referring to plastic surgery).”
(Question – And you were happy with the results?)
“I was. I was very happy. I think that it totally changes the way you look. You become more confident.”
8. Shot of Mariana Quagliani
9. SOUNDBITE: (Portuguese) Mariana Quagliani, University Student:
“All the girls my age are suffering the demand of having the standard of a beautiful body, with legs, bottom and breasts in good shape, and I feel that my tummy is…(she laughs)…a bit big, and I have the desire to have plastic surgery.”
10. Wide of Mariana Quagliani and her mother looking at beauty magazines
11. Doctor Andre Finger
12. SOUNDBITE: (Portuguese) Doctor Andre Finger, Plastic Surgeon:
“The girls are getting more and more demanding with themselves, society is demanding a perfect body and this is making the girls search for plastic surgery to sort out certain asthetic problems that they cannot sort out by dieting or with exercise, and other non-surgical methods, per say.”
13. Doctor Andre Finger showing still “before and after” photos of some patients
August 16, 2004
14. Doctor Andre Finger during surgery
15. Wide of surgery
16. Detail of monitor showing the heart of the patient
17. More of surgery
18. Doctor Andre Finger performing tummy tuck, on teenage patient
19. Wide of surgery
STORYLINE:
In the grip of a cult of physical perfection, Brazilians have embraced routine plastic surgery with 400 thousand operations performed in the country last year alone.
During the last decade plastic surgery has boomed in Brazil, not only in the adult population but also among teenagers.
According to research by the Brazilian Society of Plastic Surgery released last week – in the last decade alone the number of teenagers resorting to surgery in Brazil has grown more than ten fold.
In 1994 five percent of the teenage population had plastic surgery performed, a total of 5 thousand youths.
Last year, this percentage went up to 15 percent, with a total of 60 thousand teenagers having surgical intervention.
While the number of teenage boys who want to have a plastic surgery is still small, it�s mostly among girls where the desire to affect physical change is most strongly felt.
Most want liposuction (fat reduction) and breast implants.
In his 14 year career as a plastic surgeon, 36 years-old Doctor Andre Finger, has seen first hand the boom of plastic surgery in Brazil and the incredible increase in number of teenagers wanting to have surgery performed during the last decade.
According to Finger, who is performing an average of 27 surgeries per month, society demands that teenage girls have the same standard of beauty seen on films and television.
The number of plastic surgeries in Brazil tends to increase in the months from April to September, before the beach season starts.
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Post time: Jun-29-2017