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KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
Wed Jan 28, 2015, 02:33 PM Jan 2015

TV star's plastic surgery disaster tests Brazil

http://news.yahoo.com/tv-stars-plastic-surgery-disaster-tests-brazil-051639332.html

Andressa Urach went from being a single teenage mom nicknamed "Beanpole" to a reality TV bombshell in Brazil thanks to silicone implants, anabolic steroids, a nose job, and gel and botox injections, a fact she wasn't ashamed to share with fans.

"There are plenty of ugly women," she said last year. "If you have the money, you can be beautiful. This pretty face you see here, my dear, it costs some."...

The 27-year-old 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."


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TV star's plastic surgery disaster tests Brazil (Original Post) KamaAina Jan 2015 OP
"augment her thighs....." brooklynite Jan 2015 #1
People are PasadenaTrudy Jan 2015 #2
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