http://www.smartbreastaugmentation.com/costs.html
According to the above website, the average cost of a breast implant surgery is $7,100, which as Lugitoilet put it, is definitely not chump change that most people can throw around.
There's something in Psychology called an
availability heuristic, which states that we tend to overestimate the frequency of events based on how easily the idea is brought to mind.
For example; plane crashes. We see plane crashes in the news all the time. In fact, one might suggest that plane crashes are the ONLY way an airplane can get into the headline news. However, do plane crashes occur often? Of course not.
In fact, this website says that your chance of dying in a plane are 1 in 11 Million.
Therefore, the availability or prominence of plane crashes in the media causes people to believe that they happen much more frequently than they actually do.
So how does this relate? Name a female celebrity that hasn't had at least one instance of corrective surgery or elective surgery documented in the tabloids. Very few, right? Therefore, you're led to believe that since you hear about it all the time in the media, breast augmentation and other elective surgeries are essentially commonplace, which is not a true statement, as proven by the above.