Plastic Surgeon Ponders Plastic Surgery for Daughter with Down Syndrome

From the UK's Daily Mail:

Should We Use Plastic Surgery
to make our Down's daughter beautiful like us?

March 2, 2008

Chelsea Kirwan is brutally frank about the moment she learnt her newborn daughter had Down's syndrome.

"I felt as if I had been punched in the stomach by the world," she says.

The news also devastated her husband Laurence, a plastic surgeon well used to the horrors of working in burns units and with victims of earthquakes.

"This was the first time I'd seen him actually need to sit down because he was so shaken," says Chelsea.

All the joy the couple should have felt at the birth of their new baby failed to materialise.

Instead, they were overwhelmed by shock, as would any new parents on being given such news.

Yet their story comes with an extraordinary irony.

For the couple make their fortune from the quest for physical perfection - to become parents of a daughter with Down's syndrome may have, to say the least, profoundly challenged their ideas of what beauty is, whether it resides in the spirit or the body and whether cosmetic surgery is truly worthwhile...

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Comments

[janna]

this is a true example of how plastic surgery should be useful aside from the usual concept of doing it for cosmetic purposes only. Some are just paying to even get themselves uglier instead of expecting a more attractive figure.