Dad Gives Daughter Plastic Surgery, 13-Year-Old Savannah Robinson Performs Her Anti-Bullying Song, Anderson Works at Boston Market
Anderson examines the new trend of parents gifting their children plastic surgery, and questions the message being sent about beauty. Anderson speaks with a 23-year-old who has already had a nose job, breast implants, and Botox, and still wants further procedures. She even texts her surgeon every day with requests to schedule an appointment -- because the surgeon is actually her father! We speak with her mother and surgeon father to find out if he will operate on her again. We also meet a mother on her fourth round of plastic surgery, and even though she encountered complications, it didn't stop her from giving her daughter breast implants for her high school graduation.
Thirteen-year-old singing sensation Savannah Robinson, who recently included Anderson in her anti-bullying music video, performs her anti-bullying song on the show. Savannah meets 10-year-old Jaden, who saw her video and was moved by it. As a victim of bullying, Jaden learned an important lesson from Savannah -- that words can’t tell you how to feel about yourself. The girls meet for the first time on the show.
Anderson continues his "Try This" segment by working at his favorite lunch place, Boston Market, and going behind the counter to dish out some of his favorite meals to customers.
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i am hard of hearing imparied, i am a victim of bull of mill neck manor school for the deaf, one of ana negron is deaf, puerto rican with her tomeboy girlfriend, marylin was bully me few years ago from her group friends, she told everyones, she had a licenced of counseolr, but she lied.she had no right read people's mind, control people. she mad everyones get emotion upset. she is a bully evil. you will see her facebook. i wish both can go to jail for bully is a criminal. she made me a sick. she own my money as $20.00 but why she hired me to work at her home repair? she is two faces with deaf people, talked everyones stab back.
Anderson, thank you for airing the show on abuse. I had my son in a private catholic school and he was verbally abused by the resource room teacher. He is dyslexic .. and it was a horrible experience .. they did not believe me .. and my friend who also worked there ... quit .. and I pulled my son out because the priest and the principal wanted to cover this up. This happens all the time in catholic schools ... you should do a story about that ..... he is in a public school and doing much better ...... thank you anderson for bringing this up .. teachers can be abusive also!
Plastic beauty is no beauty...it is sad...sad and scary! these people have a lot to learn from Savannah! Savannah shines with true beauty BIG time!
First; I have nothing against plastic surgery if done responsibly. But you have to be mature enough to make that decision for yourself. The idea of some parents gifting their teenage daughters with breast implants makes me shake my head in disbelief. As for the expert: we need to take the focus OFF beauty and bring it back onto true, lasting values instead.
It`s a fact of life that some people are more beautiful than others just as some are more intelligent than others. That does not automatically mean they will have a more successful life. We all have to work with what we got; it`s how prepared we are to deal with our individual realities that makes the difference.
No matter if you have a homely or a beautiful child; both would be served best by making their looks a non-issue and constantly refocusing their attention onto things worth while.
I want to share an anti-bullying video created by students at Harrison Trible High school from Moncton, NB, Canada. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9zcJpOk-gM&feature=share
My main commentI has to due with a word that kept being repeated on the show today. The word is "perfect", perfect according to who. What is perfection ..... being entirely without fault or defect : flawless.. is that truly, realistically possible. Who has decided what is considered a fault or flawed. Each person I meet is different and individual to any other I meet. Wouldnt this world be boring if everyone was the same color, same facial look, same body image, same thoughts -- a cloned society. I teach my 10 year old daughter not to judge others on looks.
To treat others as she would want to be treated.
what do you do when the bullies in your life are your mother, father, and brother?
Anderson, I love your show!
I'm confused about something with this plastic surgeon and his daughter...I think you showed a before picture of her, but it was of her as a child, not a teen or adult, which was weird. And she appeared to be African American---is that the case?
I felt, when watching, that a major issue was purposefully overlooked in the discussion...are you sure she does not have some issues about her race? Her father does not appear black, but her mother surely is not...is she adopted? In leaving this question open, the episode was just about "how young is too young?" when I think Tiffani's insistence on the nose job may have been about much, much more than appears on the surface.
Anderson the little girl you had on the show singing about being bullied and everyone saying go to your school ....Well what do you do if you have went to the school time and time again and they dont do anything!!!!! 21/2 yrs we have complained and made statements to the police and it is still happening ... the school says we no nothing ,the teachers her the remarks and do not report,and say we lost the statements ...I have heard them all so going to the school and police dont always work ..... LOVED HER MESSAGE WITH THE SONG AN WI***** WOULD HELP
I just finished watching the full episode from today after returning home from work. Other than my earlier remarks about the disgusting behavior of parents allowing their teenagers to have plastic surgery, I have one thing to say . . . Anderson, Please don't do anything to change your face! There is NO Way that anyone could do anything to that face to make it more handsome than it is now. If you change it in ANY way, it will break my heart!
First, we need to stop using the word "perfect" in relation to physical appearance. It's a meaningless word in this context.
But my biggest issue today was with the so-called expert. She is a huge part of the problem! "Tell your girls every chance you get that they're beautiful." In other words, make a huge deal about their physical appearance so that they are totally focused on it and come to believe that it's the most important part of them, because that's all anyone talks about.
She doesn't say, "Tell your girls how brilliant they are," which would mean that girls would be focused on developing their true power. I guarantee you that of the women who are making big waves in the world, whatever positive reinforcement they got growing up was not focused on their looks.
There's a show idea, Anderson: Round up some brilliant girls and talk to them. Scientists tell us that what we focus on expands, so let's change the focus and permanently stop talking about female body parts.
boy this thi***** home. I had breast reduction surgery at the age of 45 and it as the very best thing I have every done. All my life I suffered with those large, uncomfortable and horrid breast. The thing I remember most after the surgery was that I finally felt normal, the kicker is that I realized at that moment I had felt abnormal all my life because of those huge breast.
I wish that I could have had the surgery as a teenager, maybe I would have felt better about myself and made different choices.
An important show, Anderson. You deserve to be anointed for all of your work on the "bully" issues. Whenever there is a crisis we can depend on you to make sure someone is on the case. I love your "Keepin' the honest"coverage. No one does it better. Today's show was handled tactfully and non-judgmental. I'm sure that is why you get the guests on both sides of the issue. Finally Love the new video featuring your commentary .
Who else could be better than the own parent. As long as the child is old enough, like 17+. I don't have kids but my parents did pay for a breast reduction when I was 18. This is why I think that the show is going a little one sided. I was praised all through high school for being blessed but the most important thing was what I thought. It's easy to condemn women for getting plastic surgery and wanting to change their appearance but its still a negative mentality because for some reason it is hard to believe that a woman chooses to have B breasts over DD.
I don't have children, however, if I did I would certainly not 'gift' my child with plastic surgery or allow them to have plastic surgery as a teenager unless it was something that, for medical reasons, had to be fixed. I would impress upon them they are perfect the way they are and not dwell on what I or others felt was wrong with them. I would never do to them what my mother did to me and that was to make me feel I was never acceptable the way I was. I was always too short, too fat, clothes were wrong, make-up not right, hair was too short. I was never what my mother felt I should be and, to this day I still see only a short, fat, ugly person when I look in the mirror. I could never do that to a child. If, when they were older and adults, they decided on plastic surgery, that would be their decision but I would never imply to them they were anything but perfect in my eyes. Now, if I had the money and the opportunity, there are a few things I would have taken care of but that's not possible at this time. Please parents, let your children know how perfect they are, teach them to believe in themselves and to see themselves as beautiful. Don't teach them that any 'imperfection' is ugly and should be erased. Be proud of who they are and the person they will become.