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Cosmetic surgery booming in China
www.chinanews.cn 2005-07-15 13:36:15
(Source: CNN)
BEIJING, China - Life is good for 24-year-old Lucy Hao.
She has a part-time job as a freelance writer and an apartment in
Beijing. And her 15 minutes of fame have stretched into weeks as local
media documented her transformation.
Hao has become a living billboard for cosmetic procedures in China.
After four months and twelve operations, she now has a higher nose. And
her eyes are larger and rounder -- doctors removed the fold in her eyelid
to give her a more European look.
Hao also had breast implants and liposuction to take fat from the lower
buttocks, making the head-to-toe makeover.
Many of Hao's procedures are common enough in China. What's unusual is
the promotional nature of what is normally a private matter between
doctor and patient.
Hao told CNN she has an agreement with the hospital.
"I will be their spokeswoman after my operations, kind of like being an
advertisement," she said.
"I want more people to know about this hospital so that they will have
done what they need to improve themselves."
Neither the hospital nor Hao will reveal who paid for the some 50,000 USD
worth of operations.
But the Evercare Medical Institution, which serves an affluent minority,
wants more people to have work done here, rather than go abroad.
"Lucy will become a public image and make people realize that she has
become more beautiful because of surgeries performed by Chinese doctors,"
a doctor at the hospital said.
"This will improve the public recognition of Chinese plastic surgeons."
For an elite who travels outside China seeking an alternative aesthetic,
the pursuit of perfection includes an element of wanting to look more
Western.
Beauty and fashion editors notice another pattern for people who make a
living on their looks: looking international is bankable.
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