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    Vanity Can Kill: Mine Almost Did
    Vanity Can Kill: Mine Almost Did
    Vanity Can Kill: Mine Almost Did
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    Vanity Can Kill: Mine Almost Did

    By Christie Hambright

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    A detailed description of the horrific events that happened after I made the decision to undergo plastic surgery to fix what I thought was wrong with my appearance.

    I'm a happily married, mother of two, and I almost lost everything.

    Please read and consider before making the same decision, a decision that could do the same thing to you.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherChristie Hambright
    Release dateApr 29, 2017
    ISBN9781386181811
    Vanity Can Kill: Mine Almost Did

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      Vanity Can Kill - Christie Hambright

      Prologue

      ––––––––

      I feel a burning sensation pass through my body, and then I can’t breathe.

      I feel like a fish out of water.  My body bucks off of the gurney,

      my lungs burning for oxygen that I cannot draw in. 

      I have only enough oxygen to choke out the broken words trouble... breathing. 

      Introduction

      When beginning on this journey, I was full of confidence, faith, or stupidity... whatever you want to call it,  that all things would go as I had planned, there would be no surprises.  You know what they say if you want to hear God laugh, tell him your plans.    I had every belief that I would leave this experience changed for the better physically, happier with myself which in turn would make me happier in life.  Don’t get me wrong, it is not as if I was truly unhappy in my general life... I wasn’t, but I apparently had a very hard lesson to learn that how I looked at myself, and thought of myself was what really needed changing, not my physical attributes or appearance.  True beauty is within the image, not what is represented on the outside.  This lesson; while learned in the end, came through very trying instruction.  These lessons not only taught me that being healthy is more important than appearance, but also to appreciate all the little things that truly make up happiness and a good life. 

      1.  How It Started

      To have plastic surgery, or to not have plastic surgery?  In today’s world, this seems like a very easy question to answer right?  It’s all the craze and everybody’s doing it.  After all, image is everything.  To understand how I came to my decision, I need to introduce you to myself.  Not just my physical self, as in my name, age and description.  I must introduce you to my personality, thoughts and my frame of mind.  In order to grasp my own personal reality, and grasp the importance of this decision to me, you must first understand how the way I viewed myself began in the first place. In order to do this, I have to provide you with some of my backstory before getting into the part of the story where I learn the hardest lessons of my life.  There is so much more to share, please keep reading.  Now it’s time for you to meet....ME 

      My name is Christie, I am thirty-three now, but at the time I experienced all of what you will soon read, I was twenty-nine years old.  I was born in a small town in North Alabama. Greenhill, home of the pirates.  This town was out in the country, nothing really to be terribly excited about, no red-lights, or post office, just your quintessential small town.  I was born in a very good family with parents that always supported me in anything and everything that I wanted to do.  My parents have always believed in me completely, and have always pushed me to succeed in everything that I attempted.  If you were not going to push to do the best you could in an activity, there was no point in doing it.  These expectations and support have gotten me to where I am today, and I am happy to say that I am proud of my life.  I set expectations for myself and goals that I want to achieve.  Then I constantly push myself to achieve more, become better and to a certain extent have become a perfectionist.  I was raised to be independent, value education, and taught to be able to do things myself, so I would not have to depend on others as I grew older and got out on my own.  This creates and attitude of if you want things done right, do it yourself.    I have two brothers, one two years older than me and one seven years younger.  Being the only girl born between two brothers,  as I grew up I was subject to all the normal ridicule and razzing that comes in that situation.  As brothers and sisters do, we constantly picked on each other, called each other names, tried to get the other one in trouble, and pretended not to like the other very much; although given the opportunity would defend them to almost anybody else.  Make no mistake, although I was the only girl, I dished it out as much as I took it in return.   The unspoken rule was that we could pick on each other, but nobody else could.  I didn’t realize that having brothers would enable me to deal with how people speak to me and treated me, at least on the surface.  But like many of us know, the paint on the surface can easily hide the imperfections below.  

      Despite having a vast family medical history containing diabetes, high blood pressure, and obesity, I never developed proper eating habits.  Never focused on eating healthy, or proper proportions of food.  Never cared what I ate or even if I was truly hungry.  if I wanted to eat I would.  I despised all green vegetables, and loved carbs.  I craved bread, sweets, sugar in general.  Due to this and the fact that I am only five foot two inches in height, I was always a heavier build, and carried my weight differently than someone who is taller would.  I was always overweight for my height and build.  When I was younger, It never bothered me.  I didn’t care what people thought of me, and never gave it a second thought that I would pay for it later.  I never considered that losing weight later would be so difficult.  I never considered that changing my lifestyle and eating habits would be so hard to do.

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