13-Year-Old Gets Plastic Surgery To Avoid Being Teased At School

by Justin Fenner | 6:10 pm, October 12th, 2011

There are a lot of things we would do for our hypothetical children to stop them from hypothetically having a bad educational experience, but we don’t know yet if rhinoplasty is hypothetically one of those things. But one New York couple decided it was the best way to prevent their teenage daughter from being teased and bullied at school.

Last night, ABC’s Nightline featured Nicolette Taylor, a 13-year-old Long Island girl faced with self-image corrupting levels of teasing at school. Taylor’s mother Maria described her as an active girl who was always outgoing. She even modeled as a child. But after breaking her nose twice, she developed what she called “crooked bump” that made her the target of taunting in person — and online.

“They went on Facebook, and they started posting, ‘Hey big nose,’” said Maria Taylor, Nicolette’s mother, in an interview with “Nightline” correspondent JuJu Chang. “It happened probably about five times that week. … I came in when she was on the phone with the boy, and I took the phone from her, and I said, ‘Listen, you need to take them off Facebook.’ I was crazy, crazy.”

Crazy enough that she called a local plastic surgeon for a consultation and, when she found out that bullying is “quite frequently” a factor in the decision to have a procedure done, signed Nicolette up to have her nose straightened out.

While child psychologists caution that being physically and emotionally mature enough for a procedure like this is important, Nicolette’s result overwhelmed both her and her family with joy.

Since her surgery, Nicolette has started school and has even made the cheerleading team. She said she knew bullying might happen again, but now that she felt better about her appearance, she didn’t care.

What do you think. Is the confidence to stand up for yourself worth a drastic elective surgery?

[ABC News via The Huffington Post]

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Rashmichele

Though I know this mother had the best intentions for her daughter, she is still disgusting! Whatever happened to loving who you are, including your flaws? Imagine if the daughter would have died on that table? So sick
http://twitter.com/danielmchick Daniel M. Chick

I don’t see that as elective, “for-the-hell-of-it” surgery. I see this as correcting a medically diagnosed problem through aesthetic means. It’s no different than me getting my thumb corrected surgically after I broke it.
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Being a mother i feel sorry for the little girl and the mother. If i found out my little girl was being taunted like that i would go mad. To be honest i dont know what i would do. If there is a way you could fix it you proberly would. A friend of mine when i was younger has her ears pinned back and had her nose fixed. It did help her confidence and it stopped her being slated from the bullys at school.
Anonymous

You’re the disgusting one, for saying the mother of the girl is disgusting, when she was far from it. Get off you high holier than thou perch, and start acting like a person for gods sake. People like you are nothing but sick hypocrites who thrive on picking somthing or someone apart.

Loving who you are including your flaws, is perfectly fine when you are born with certain features & stay that way. When one of those features, in this case a young woman’s nose, has been broken & becomes disfigured, it’s no longer what she was born with.
To make matters worse, the young woman was being bullied because of that fact. In your strange mind, that seems to be acceptable over the girl having corrective surgery for her own personal well being, and to hopefully end the bullying at the same time.

As for your comment about dying on the table. That statement alone, proves what a nutcase you really are.

13-Year-Old Gets Plastic Surgery To Avoid Being Teased At School

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