A Chinese woman is seeking extensive plastic surgery to look like U.S. actress Jessica Alba, mainly because she hopes to win back her boyfriend who she said always wished she looked more like the Hollywood star.
The 21-year-old, who would only give her name as Xiaoqing, said she was devastated after she broke up with her lover, an ardent fan of the actress who has starred in hit movies such as "Fantastic Four" and "Into the Blue."
Xiaoqing, who works at an Internet firm in Shanghai, said that during their 18-month-long relationship, her 28-year-old boyfriend had been obsessed with Alba, adorning their apartment with her photographs and talking about her constantly.
She said that while her boyfriend had not forced her to look like Alba, he always hinted that the wanted her to resemble his favorite star and even bought her a blonde wig to wear.
A month ago, Xiaoqing left her boyfriend, whom she did not name, because his Alba obsession became too much for her. But now she says she can't get over the break-up and wants him back.
"When I broke up with my boyfriend, I was very sad," she told Reuters at the Shanghai Time Plastic Surgery Hospital which has agreed to help her fulfill her wish.
This is all sad enough, but when you see a picture of the young woman it becomes truly pathetic and heartbreaking.
She is absolutely lovely the way she is, yet she is going to obliterate a part of who she has been since her birth in order to do what exactly? To satisfy some guys masturbatory fantasies about a Hollywood starlet?
*sigh*
I've lamented such things before, noting studies that link plastic surgery to increased suicide rates in young women. What I said then still holds today:
I've never warmed to the idea of such artificial body sculpting at all. For starters, women seem to have a terrible idea of what men actually find attractive. Being incredibly thin AND having large breasts is not the recipe for attractiveness, and I'd say 90% of the guys I know feel exactly the same way. So it doesn't surprise me that the women who choose to have such surgery often don't like themselves very much. I don't know that breast augmentation surgery is a cause as much as it is a symptom for a lot of these women, but it is still a sad story to hear.
There are so many different ways to be beautiful. Here is to the day when every little girl knows that already.
Unfortunately, there is always someone ready to make a buck off the pain women like Xiaoqing experience.
I really wished these doctors would use their skills for something socially useful, like giving Xiaoqing's ex-boyfriend a lobotomy.
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