In December 2009, a 38-year-old mother of 7-year-old twins died after undergoing enhancement surgery on her lower body. Absolutely tragic, of course. But what gives her death a particularly ironic chill is that the woman won a national beauty contest in 1994 and went on to start a modeling agency!

Clad in large dark sunglasses, the friend who accompanied the woman to her fateful appointment told the media, “She would tell me, ‘I want a big behind.’ She was very tall, really beautiful, and she’d say, ‘I need more behind.’ But of course, we never thought it would end like this.”

The idea of a successful professional model seeing herself as less than perfect is beyond bizarre: such insecurities are supposed to be the domain of us non-hourglass-figured mortals in the real world. As girls, we’re handed dolls that would have 20-inch waists if human-sized. As teenagers, we put anorexia, obesity and other eating disorders on the map. As young adults, we prefer gulping down diet pills to exercising regularly. And when we get to be around 38 years of age, men start trading us in for younger models (if you’ll pardon the expression).

Maybe this wouldn’t have happened if the woman had worked at something other than working with fashion models. It had been seven years since she’d given birth, and she was preparing to appear in a runway show herself–really, how bad COULD she have looked? Maybe her increasingly youthful client list was making her feel old–did she feel a need to show that she could still “compete” with them?

Most likely, though, she was probably just in too much of a hurry to eat and exercise properly. Think of the time and money she could have saved by investing in a personal trainer who could have helped tone up her lower body. Which brings us to something another friend of hers said: “A woman who had everything lost her life to have a slightly firmer behind.”

By: Adrienne Collier

About the Author:
When all that is really required is a little time each day, a little motivation and some lower body makeover exercises, it’s hard not to cry out, “Did this really have to happen?”

You don’t have to pay for a firmer lower body with your life. For instance, there’s a body toning program which targets the buttocks and thighs that can be ordered from http://www.rocktivity.com/lower-body-makeover.



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