Five months ago, Natalie, a 27-year-old from Canada, paid C$4,000 for chin liposuction. She had always had a small double chin, she says, but in the past year she had gained weight, and it had grown bigger. The more she fixated on her chin, the more she fixated on the chins of others. “You see people in the media, on Instagram. They have an ideal image,” Natalie (not her real name) says. “You want to achieve that look. And sometimes it can only be done through surgery.”
The procedure went smoothly. Immediately afterwards, “it looked perfect. It was snatched.” “Snatched”, she explains, means “a straight chin underneath. It’s usually used for thin, pretty people.”
