"Plastic Surgery Serves no Purpose" Pope Francis Declares

 Head of the Catholic Church, Pope Francis, has while speaking to university students in Asia via a video link, vehemently condemned the act of body shaming. The Pope also admitted to have encouraged different forms of body shaming as a boy. The 86 year old head of the Catholic Church urged young people to learn to recognise their own beauty regardless of perceived shortcomings in their physical appearance. The Pope also frowned against body alterations via plastic surgery because in his opinion, it served no purpose as beauty would eventually fade.

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In Pope Francis' words:There is the beauty of the harmony of the individual, regardless of you being fat, thin, short, tall. The important thing is to live in harmony, harmony in your hearts,” he said, saying, “Beauty makes us grow in terms of our mental health: every man, every woman, has our own beauty, we only have to learn how to see it, how to recognize it. Even when someone is not considered physically attractive, they must be “in full harmony with our beauty as a person, as an individual."