Peggy Fletcher Stack reports that Mormon women might actually get less cosmetic surgery than the national average.
- Type
- News (traditional)
- Source
- Peggy Fletcher Stack LDSCritic
- Hearsay
- Journalism
- Reference
Peggy Fletcher Stack, "Mormons and plastic surgery — a connection that is more myth than reality," Salt Lake Tribune, March 22, 2017, accessed July 8, 2021
- Scribe/Publisher
- The Salt Lake Tribune
- People
- Peggy Fletcher Stack, Jana Riess
- Audience
- Reading Public
- Transcription
"Among Mormon women, it's even lower than for women nationally," she says her survey found. "Moreover, Utah Mormons' rate of cosmetic surgery isn't outsized at all. Among all Utah Mormons, 3.7 percent have had plastic surgery, slightly less than the 4 percent national average for all Americans. For Utah women, it's 5.6 percent. That's also a little less than the national average for women, which is 7 percent." Riess warns against drawing conclusions based on circumstantial evidence. "Let's be careful about making broad, sweeping assumptions," she writes. "The numbers don't always back it up."
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