Shake What Yo Momma Bought Ya

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Among the more unusual gifts this Christmas, was a rising trend to provide your loved ones with cosmetic surgery.

Cosmetic surgery holidays, vouchers and gift cards are also on the rise. Gorgeous Getaways which offers plastic surgery tours to Malaysia, Thailand and Australia, has seen a rise in its UK customers.

Kelly and Paul, a Manchester couple, "recently returned from their surgery honeymoon, where they each had plastic surgery."

Rodeo Drive Plastic Surgery, in Beverly Hills has also introduced a new plastic surgery gift card which can be credited with any amount. Their website claims the card will make plastic surgery as "rewarding and convenient as shopping."

With cosmetic surgery becoming more acceptable, it's easy to see why so many women, their partners or, believe it or not, parents are shelling out the pounds for the sake of their loved ones happiness.

A few weeks ago, The London Paper did an entire page spread of this unique Christmas gift featuring 4 young women:

23 year old aspiring model Karen Igho went from a size B bust to a pair of DD?s with the help of her boyfriend. Karen said the £4,000 surgery "has made [her] feel confident and sexy" and is already considering rhinoplasty as next Christmas present.

Jenny Scott, a 22 year old PA, is planning to use a £500 Christmas bonus to fund a new pair of lips. ""My lips are rubbish," she says, "the top one is especially thin and I have always really hated them.""

Fashion Executive Abby Beck, will have a face peel and teeth whitening procedures thanks to her boyfriend Ben. The 24 year old, a former sun-bed worshipper, is convinced that a skin peel will repair her "dry and battered skin." Both treatments will cost the couple around £950.

Like Karen above, Kaja Lukafzewicz's Christmas wish already came through. Her boyfriend Piotr Kuniec "bought her a full makeover - skin peel, dermal fillers and teeth whitening." The 32 year old Fitness Instructor said the Botox dermal fillers were a necessity. "I thought I am still a young woman, I don't deserve to look like dry prunes."

While some people may think these women are too young to undergo cosmetic procedures, 'research' (okay, Google) has shown the age in which some females first go under the knife has fallen dramatically over the years.

In 2001, the BBC featured 11-year-old Jamie-Lee Mason who wanted a nose job to correct what she described as a "concord nose". The pre-teen had already begun "saving up her pocket money to have her nose surgically altered."

The Beeb also featured another young lady that year, Nottinghamshire resident Jenna Franklin, who had been offered a breast enlargement operation for her Sweet Sixteen.

Back then Jenna's mom, Kay said "she did not want her 15-year-old daughter" to have any "hang-ups" about the way she looked."

"I want her to feel confident about the way she looks, and if that means having breast implants then so be it."

Jenna who says she made up her mind at age 14 to have breast augmentation surgery reasoned that: "You've got to have breasts to be successful. Every other person you see on television has had implants."

These types of stories are not confined to the US and UK though. In April 2006, the Courier Mail in Australia reported a rise in teens opting for expensive cosmetic procedures. Some of these girls, many of them under the age of 20, were using credit cards to finance these "makeover mortgages".

Television shows like 'Extreme Makeover', 'The Biggest Loser' and MTVs 'I Want a Famous Face' are being blamed for the growing acceptance of plastic surgery as a norm among very young women.