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Have you been fretting over the apparently unattainable perfect body goal set by Kim Kardashian, Jennifer Lopez, Nicki Minaj and their likes?

Probably yes!

Big booty, narrow waist and large breasts – the goal is high and has set thousands of Americans and Europeans to go under plastic surgeries over the years. Media has played a large role in creating the hype and has shaped largely the new American aesthetics.

Here is what you need to know before you go under the knife!

If self-love is not enough of a reason to make you happy with your current shape and size, then perhaps the threat of changing trends over the upcoming years possibly can.

Dr. Matthew Schulman, a board certified plastic surgeon, who has been doing butt implants and butt lifts for many of American celebs and Big Apple women believes that the trend will change in the next 5 to 10 years and go back to the slim athletic look. A premonition for those who already got solid silicone implants!

Though Kim Kardashians’s voluptuous curves are undeniably beautiful and have been turning heads for a number of years and cannot be attained merely through diet and exercise. There have been rumors that Kim’s fabulous booty is fake. And most of us might know that she got an x-ray done to prove to her envious-booty-haters that it is real.

Nevertheless, Dr. Tabassum Mir, a New-York based dermatologist and Star of Bravo’s the single project maintains that Kim has undergone multiple surgeries which include tummy tuck, liposuction and possibly implants to acquire her current flawless shape.

However, this is not all you need to know – what you need to know is this:

Though we, as advocates of positive body image, embrace and celebrate all body types and Kim Kardashian’s beautiful body – whether fake or real – is no exception; we need to realize that idealizing Kim Kardashian’s body as ideal and perfect once again put us into a new and equally deleterious circle of female objectification.

And we must break out of it.

We, as humans, are subject to bias and have our likes and dislikes. We can love one body type over another. We can choose to have one shape and not the other. What we should not do is to fall victim of self-loathing and body-shaming which result from trying to achieve these unattainable ideals.

An unbelievable amount of money and effort is invested into making these celebrities look the way they do. Only Kim Kardashian’s booty is net worth $21 million. She and Kanye believe it is her most prized asset and needs to be insured. According to Grazia magazine Kim spends $5,000 per day to keep tailor Cornelius Clay on call to make sure her pants fit just right. The world of glam is outrageous and totally unrealistic.

To sell their business, all they need is objectification and stigmatization of the female body. And we need to understand this.

Curvy or slim, flat or fat, all bodies are beautiful.

Having an ideal is fine as long as it does not lead to self-loathing. Kim Kardashian is beautiful and so are you. Choose who you want to be, not what media tells you.