This Beautiful Reporter's Scary Plastic Surgery Transformation Will Break Your Heart
In a country obsessed with beauty, one South Korean woman took her quest to look "perfect" too far.
By Sadho Ram — 30 Jan 2014, 06:42 PM — Updated over 10 years ago
Meet the latest face of South Korea's rising cosmetic surgery trend: an unnamed woman whose quest for a heart-shaped face is making headlines worldwide
The unnamed woman, allegedly a reporter on a South Korean TV channel, has undergone jaw surgery in order to achieve the dainty heart-shaped face desired by many east Asian women.
Before and after: The South Korean woman looks drastically different after undergoing plastic surgery
Image via gawkerassets.comSouth Koreans currently have more plastic surgery than in any other country according to recent figures, with the craze particularly popular among 19 to 49-year-olds
dailymail.co.ukAccording to RocketNews24, commenters writing on a Japanese internet forum, had some nasty comments
“Someone please tell me this was Photoshopped!” wrote one.
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“Is it really possible to taper someone’s chin that much?” says another.
South Korea is the world's largest market for plastic surgery, with one in five Seoul women having gone under the knife
The most popular surgical procedures include double eyelid surgery - which reduces excess skin in the upper eyelid to make the eyes appear bigger, lipoplasty - which uses high-frequency sound waves to eliminate fat - and nose jobs.
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The popularity of surgery, particularly among the young, has been blamed by some on a desire to look more 'western' fuelled by an obsession with celebrity culture. On the nonsurgical front, Botox and laser hair removal remain firm favourites, a 2012 report said.
dailymail.co.ukCommentors went so far they even compared the woman to a goblet in a photograph and uploaded to a Japanese online forum
It appears the woman in these pictures have undergone drastic jaw surgery, a high-risk operation which involves re-aligning the jaw and shaving off parts of the bone to create a 'heart shape'
It is usually a last resort solution to correct facial deformities where people have been unable to chew properly due to an excessive over or underbite, but has become popular in South Korea.
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A small face with a 'V-shaped' chin and jawline is considered a mark of feminine beauty in much of East Asia, along with a high-bridged nose and big eyes.