Teenagers are getting plastic surgery to look like their snapchat selfies
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Patients want to look the way photo-editing apps make them look.
By Chelsea Ritschell
Teenagers are undergoing plastic surgery to look like they do in their filtered selfies – and it may be a sign they are suffering from an underlying mental health condition.
In addition to unicorn horns and dog ears, Snapchat and Instagram also offer perfecting filters that smooth skin, thin your face and change your eye colour – photo-editing technology that has resulted in a new mental illness scientists are calling ‘Snapchat dysmorphia.’
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