The girls of Ipanema may be so tall, tan, and lovely due to
something other than the Bossa Nova;
Brazil recently surpassed the United States in plastic surgeries, with
1.5 million procedures in 2013, according to the International Society
of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery.
A few of whom may be sorry, like this
Miss Bum Bum contestant;
The 27-year-old [Andressa] Urach, arguably Brazil’s most outspoken advocate of
advancement through cosmetic surgery, recently went into septic shock
and was placed on life support after a botched operation to augment her
thighs, sparking a debate about the risks Brazilian women will take for
beauty at a moment when the nation has surpassed the U.S. as the world’s
plastic surgery capital.
It led the runner-up in
Brazil’s “Miss Bum Bum” contest to express regret “that I put that
poison in my body, mostly because of having too much vanity.”
Not that it was her fault;
Urach told Rede TV that she blamed “society, which unfortunately holds a standard of beauty in which you have to be perfect.”
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