Following the death of businesswoman while undergoing cosmetic surgery in Nairobi, it is reported that this trend is becoming popular among rich ladies in the city.
It was reported that Lucy Wambui Ng’ang’a underwent a cosmetic surgery that went absolutely haywire.
The mother of three had on October 18 sought the abortive services at a facility known as Body by Design, in upmarket Lavington suburbs in Nairobi.
But upon discharge, Mrs Ng’ang’a developed serious complications while at home and was rushed to another hospital in the city where she later passed on.
Her husband, Francis Ng’ang’a, a renowned businessman, painted a horrific picture of what the mother of his children underwent before taking her last breath.
And now some experts now say some ladies are now opting for cosmetic changes owing to peer pressure and from their spouses.
Counseling psychologists now argue that many of those flocking cosmetic clinics are driven by peer pressure and quick money that comes later in life.
“Peer influence from their women groups especially those in the middle income groups. The peer influence targets their self-esteem and are made to feel that they would belong more in these groups if they were more ‘beautiful’,” he explained to a local publication.
Adding that “Many of these groups have come into new money either from business or other means. Their class drastically change and to fit in they have to imitate the behaviour of this class,”
The expert also links this to self-esteem needs citing women go to that extra lengths in order to satisfy their felt needs of beauty and body size.
For men, he says they will start having clubs that they patronize because they have gotten to the money, they have gotten to where it matters.
And out of peer pressure to feel they want to belong, they now start doing some of these things.
“So if we address peer pressure, if we address the issue of self-esteem, that you are okay where you are, then this would be a major issue that would help some of our lady folk, some of our women folk not to get swayed into some of these surgeries,” he added.
But he regrets, “unfortunately, as we do in Kenya, we have focused on the clinic. We have focused on how illegal it was, which is also good to focus, but we are not addressing the psychological needs of the people who flock to these kind of clinics,”
He said this is because people don’t have health information or the information about the doctors who are doing this.
