Man Alive

Vital Statistics (1981x14)

Air date: Apr 02, 1981

Bare bosoms may have boosted some newspaper sales, but there has been another, more subtle result'of that and other naked displays. Only a few of the thousands of women who, every year, have breast operations need them for truly medical reasons. For the rest, it is cosmetic surgery, ' I feel I am a boy dressed in dresses,' says Susan, a National Health patient wanting her breasts enlarged. Susan is one of two women who undergo cosmetic surgery of the breast in this film profile. The other, Ruth, has a private operation to lift and reduce her breasts. The film explores the reasons which leads two attractive women to ' correct' what they feel to be ' wrong ' with themselves. It also underlines the risks involved in this sort of surgery, Michael Dean discusses the implications of the film with a plastic surgeon, a psychiatrist and the two women themselves,