Meet Mia Dio, a brave individual with a plastic surgery addiction, unafraid to embrace her journey of self-discovery. Faced with the unrelenting influence of societal beauty standards, she made a courageous choice to alter her physical appearance. Investing over $30,000 in facial enhancements. Mia’s quest for self-improvement and inner acceptance took her down an unexpected...
A gender-neutral individual working in an office, who spent $73,000 in Botox, fillers, and cosmetic surgery to look like a doll, emphasizes that their identity is not exclusively female. Patrick Mast, a 27-year-old from Frankfurt, Germany, has undergone multiple procedures to enhance their feminine appearance, including a recent cost of $3,000 on a complete set...
Plastic surgery is commonplace in Hollywood. After all, celebrities’ appearances are put under a microscope and they feel pressured to look young and beautiful at all times. This pressure isn’t only for celebrities, however; many people go under the knife to improve their looks. Despite the growing popularity of procedures like breast implants, it should...
Vice News recently covered a story about a young girl who made the choice to undergo plastic surgery. Micchi lives in Japan and was 9 years old at the time of her surgery. While many may wonder why this is newsworthy, it highlights an epidemic of self-esteem issues and body dysmorphia amongst younger generations. Learning...
Dalia Naeem, a woman from Baghdad who has gone through 43 cosmetic procedures in order to look like a Barbie doll, has finally revealed her face on social media. The 29-year-old Naeem has apparently spent thousands on this transformation in order to look like the character. People have started calling her the ‘Iraqi Barbie’- due...
Today’s media is an ever-influential aspect. We are constantly bombarded by images of the perfect smile with dazzling white teeth, the perfect job with an impressive house or car. The most pressing thing today are the ideals that so many women compare themselves to, thanks to the fashion industry. It starts at a young age...
Hang Mioku worked as a successful model and singer before her descent into plastic surgery addiction. She got her first procedure at age 28, then more as she became obsessed with getting softer and smoother skin. She even moved to Japan for multiple treatments. Eventually, doctors refused to work on her anymore. Her face had...
Lip fillers or injections are a relatively common procedure. Plenty of people have them done every day. The goal, naturally, is to have bigger, fuller lips. As we age, typically our lips become thinner, so the procedure is especially popular as people get older. With the currency pressures today to have a certain “look”, however,...
Long have people tried to use science to explain beauty. Particularly, doctors who work in the field of cosmetic surgery. After all, they are in the business of helping people achieve the “perfect” face, and business is booming. In 2021, the Global Cosmetic Surgery market was valued at $50.27 billion, and it’s expected to grow to $67.91...
Body modifications have been all the craze in the last few years. People have gone to extreme lengths to change the way they look- and while there have been some impressive transformations, most of them make us wonder what went through their heads when they considered it. One such individual who underwent extreme body modification...
They say that twins are born with their lifelong best friend. That is definitely the case for Anna and Lucy DeCinque who became stars in TLC’s Extreme Sisters reality series. They have crowned themselves “the most identical twins in the world” and they do everything together. This includes dressing alike, going to the bathroom at...
Unless you’ve been living completely off-the-grid for the last eight to ten years, then you’ll know this: Butts are in. Big, round, perky, bouncy booties. While a large backside has been celebrated in black and latina cultures for, well, ever, mainstream (aka extremely white-dominant) media, women were given increasingly impossible levels of thinness to achieve....