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Tl;dr: Celebrities need to be transparent about cosmetic procedures as it sets unrealistic standards to their followers.
I think having cosmetic procedures done is fine, so long as you don't pretend that your body looks that way naturally. Celebrities or people who have a large following that are not transparent about their cosmetic procedures endorse unattainable beauty standards, most often to their young and impressionable audiences, which is wrong.
Moreover, if a celebrity uses their body to promote products such as diet pills, or say that their bodies are obtained with just exercise can quite literally feed into disordered relationships with food and exercise itself, as young audiences think that if they follow these steps, then they too can have a body that only cosmetic doctors can create.
Overall, celebrities need to be transparent about cosmetic surgery as it is psychologically damaging and dangerous to their audiences.
TL;DR -- It's an invasion of privacy to force celebrities to disclose their private lives. Celebrities aren't always at fault for setting unrealistic expectations. Popular media and even the average person are just as much to blame.
It's an invasion of privacy for us to force celebrities to disclose every detail about their private lives with us. I see the point about it setting unrealistic expectations for normal people to follow, but to be fair, it's not 100% the celebrities' fault.
They're constantly pressured into getting these cosmetic surgeries by their managers, agents, news media, magazines/tabloids, social media etc. that always criticize how they look. Not to mention, their very fans -- i.e, the average person -- are super critical of celebrities' looks to the same extent as popular media.
So not only do celebrities get pressured to always look perfect, but now we want to blame them for our own insecurities and force them into broadcasting their private lives, too!? Celebrities are already abused enough by the public and their fans who claim to love them so much. Why do we insist on making them scapegoats for our personal problems, too?
If we want celebrities to set a good example, then we need to stop pressuring them to be perfect. Because in doing so, we are, in essence, pressuring ourselves as well. It's a vicious cycle, and it needs to stop.
Although I don’t believe they are at liberty to disclose any work they have chosen to do on their bodies, they should not lie.
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