Thursday 25 October 2012

Biases on beauty draw Thais to illegal surgery

In this photo taken Monday, Oct. 8, 2012, Ratphila Chairungkit, a woman who admitted that she had undergone several cosmetic surgeries by the unlicensed practitioners, listens to a question during an interview at her noodles restaurant on the outskirts of Bangkok, Thailand. Thailand is swarming with cheap but risky cosmetic clinics, thanks to two powerful forces: Their prices are designed to attract the poor, and Thai society defines beauty as fair and delicate. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong) Her dream was to look less Thai and more like Jennifer Lopez, so the 25-year-old street food vendor went to the Internet and typed in "cheap Botox."




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