New Delhi: Japan is one of the top four countries in the world for the number of plastic surgery procedures performed. According to one study, many Japanese women are influenced to undergo plastic surgery by "peer pressure or insolence from family and friends." Unfortunately, children, like Micchi, experience the same pressure and undergo plastic surgery.


Michhi is a 9-year-old child who had undergone plastic surgery to beautify her eyes. Media reports reveal that the child was persuaded by her mother to undergo the surgery so that she looks pretty, to which she had agreed. In an interview with Vice TV, Micchi's mother Rucchi opens up about how she had been insecure as a child for not having double eyelids and does not want her daughter to go through the same feeling.


Presently, the mother-daughter duo creates videos on makeup and plastic surgery and uploads them on YouTube. In a recent interview, Micchi revealed the reason behind undergoing plastic surgery to get double eyelids. 


She shared her story with Vice TV and said, "I was told that my eyes are narrow, so it looked like I was glaring at people. That’s why I wanted to have plastic surgery."


Micchi further went on to praise those who undergo plastic surgery as beautiful and said, “If you can endure the pain of plastic surgery, that makes you a beautiful person, in my opinion.”


Rucchi also shared a video of her daughter's surgery earlier this year, during which the child sobbed and had a panic attack.
The video, which was extensively shared on TikTok, has now sparked outrage among online users. Many people wondered how such a young person could get plastic surgery done, even if her mother agreed.


According to the New York Post, juveniles can have plastic surgery with parental approval in Japan and hence, Rucchi agreed to let Micchi have the surgery. Micchi experienced the agony and pain of the anaesthetic failing, extending a twenty-minute procedure to more than two hours.


Sharing her own experiences of growing up with monolids and never receiving the same treatment as her family members who had double eyelids, Rucchi said, "My mother and younger sister have amazing big eyes, while I had a monolid. Everyone thought my younger sister was much cuter than me."


She further added, "Women in the neighbourhood blatantly just called my sister cute and gave her sweets. I’ve never been told anything like that."


She presses on the fact that double eyelids are beauty standards and says, "A girl needs double eyelids. I have never seen a girl with monolids who I thought was pretty. Double eyelids are beautiful. Double eyelids are the beauty standard. I say this again and again."


Rucchi further reveals that she too got double eyelids when she was eighteen but regrets not having gotten it done earlier.


Vice reports that last year a Japanese clinic discovered that nine out of ten respondents in their teens sought plastic surgery in order to address their concerns.


Here are the effects of Japanese beauty standards on many Japanese women:



Although plastic surgery might boost a youngster's confidence, child psychology and body image professor warns that detrimental consequences may occur later in life. Professor Tomohiro Suzuki described the perilous path of obtaining one surgery and later modifying it to meet a current concept of what you want yourself to appear like. This might make one go in a loop.


The risks involved in cosmetic surgeries:


The risks involved in the process are as follows:



  • Anesthesia complications, such as pneumonia, blood clots, and, in rare cases, death

  • Infection at the site of the incision may increase scarring and necessitate more surgery

  • Fluid accumulation beneath the skin

  • Mild bruising

  • Scarring that isn't normal

  • Separation of the surgical wound, which occasionally requires extra treatments

  • Nerve injury causes numbness and tingling.