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Hi, my name is Dana.
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Today, I wanted to share my biggest secret.
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My plastic surgery.
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I know what you're thinking.
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What kind of teenager gets plastic surgery?
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Well, you'd be surprised.
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These days, with everyone wanting to fit in or look like the next Kardashian, plastic surgery is more common than ever, even in someone as young as me.
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I was 18 when I got my surgery.
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So, before you judge me, hear my story and tell me what you would have done in my situation.
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I've always been the chubby girl in my class.
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Growing up, I was bullied so much for my weight that it became the thing I thought about the most.
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I tried absolutely everything I could.
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I went on diet after diet growing up, and nothing seemed to help me.
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I tried absolutely everything I could.
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I spent all my allowance on these detox diet teas I found on Instagram too, but nothing seemed to work.
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Eventually, my mom took me to the doctors and I found out that I had a medical problem.
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The doctor called it an underactive thyroid, but basically, it just meant my hormones were unbalanced and my metabolism was super slow,
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so I kept gaining weight.
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The doctor gave me some medicine and said things should get better after that.
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I was really happy for the first time in a long time that day.
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But that all changed when I first started high school.
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I started to get interested in boys, but I didn't have any experience dealing with them.
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So I asked my best friend Annie about it, and the reaction I got was awful.
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I expected her to help me or give me advice, and I guess she did, but it was useless.
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Annie told me I'd never get a boyfriend with the way I looked.
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She told me that I was too fat for any guy to be interested in.
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I tried to stay strong, but after we spoke, I cried and cried until I couldn't cry anymore.
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I felt like my whole life revolved around my weight, and because I couldn't do anything about it, my whole life was ruined.
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But the doctor had said I might lose some weight now that I was on medication.
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I just had to hold on and hope for the best.
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Things did get better too.
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I met a new friend in my trigonometry class named Lucas.
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He was super nice to me
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and I felt like for the first time in a long time
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that someone looked past my appearance and saw the real me.
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We became friends and hung out a lot after school.
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We both liked playing games and spent a lot of afternoons playing on his Xbox at his house.
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After a few months, I realized that I had a crush on Lucas, but I was scared.
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He was slim, tall, and cute, and I was a fat, disgusting mess.
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I went back to Annie to ask her what I should do about it, but she gave me pretty much the same answer as before.
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Lucas will never like you the way you are now.
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You need to lose weight.
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I was sick of her always putting me down about my weight, so I stopped talking to her after that, but I couldn't shake what she'd said.
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I didn't believe Lucas would like me the way I looked, so I never told him about my crush.
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I didn't want to get hurt or lose a great friend.
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Over the course of freshman year, I still didn't lose any weight, so I started considering something I'd thought about for years now, plastic surgery.
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My great aunt had died a few months back and left me a lot of money.
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I was going to save it for college, but maybe this was a better use for it.
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I spoke to my mom and dad about it at first.
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They were both against the idea.
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They didn't think I needed it but as i explained how i felt
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and how i hated the way i looked my mom came
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around my dad still didn't like the idea he told me
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that i was beautiful just the way i was
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and i didn't need to change for anyone but i explained
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that i didn't want to change for anyone else i wanted
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this for myself in the end my mom convinced my dad
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to let me do it she said she thought it would help myself esteem and we'd exhausted all other options.
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We spoke to my doctor and while he didn't want me to do it, he did agree that liposuction may have some health benefits.
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I was so excited and my dad finally seemed to get on board.
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So that summer, I did it.
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I had two types of surgery.
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I got the lipo to get rid of fat around different parts of my body and I got something called a rhinoplasty,
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which actually has nothing to do with rhinos.
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It's an operation to change the shape of my nose, which was something else I'd been unhappy with before.
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It wasn't a big change.
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They just smoothed out a little bump and made it straighter.
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I figured why not if I was already getting something else done.
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After a few weeks of recovery, I finally looked in the mirror and...
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Thank you.

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