YEREVAN. – People resort to plastic surgery to self-establish and correct the defects, Armenia’s Plastic and Reconstructive Service Director Gevorg Stepanyan stated during a press conference on Friday.     

In his turn, the event’s other speaker, clinical psychologist Mikayel Madatyan said plastic surgery had begun 3,000 years ago in Egypt. “Incidentally, the founder of this direction—which is very popular in the US—is an Armenian: Varaztad Ghazantian,” he noted.   

He stressed that people undergo plastic surgery because of health issues and when they wish to be not what they appear. “[Yet] It’s [altogether] another issue that people resort to [plastic] surgery because of a lover’s whim. But what should you do when you are no longer that man’s lover two years later and find yourself beside someone else who doesn’t like big breasts? Consequently, a psychologist [likewise] joins this process,” Madatyan noted.