She can't lift her eyebrows. Her eyes are so scarred they can't close.
Pink Baby also says she suffers memory loss from so much anesthesia and heel pain from operations that damaged her foot bones. Some of her implants and fillers pose cancer risks, she says.
As the rich get richer in China, demand grows for aesthetic perfection, especially among Chinese women. Extreme cases like those of "Pink Baby", a woman who now wears a facemask to hide the 200 surgeries, botched and otherwise, that she's put herself through since she was 16 years old. China has overtaken Korea when it comes to nose, boob and, er, eye jobs.
Of course in China, where there's money to be made, you can find the shysters that are more than willing to fleece unsuspecting innocents - and in China, there are a lot of innocent young women who want to look just like their favorite celebrity. In 2006, The China Daily reported that 7 out of 10 beauty parlors in Beijing alone were performing surgeries that they weren't licensed for.
Four years later, in 2010, there were more than 20,000 complaints to government agencies about botched operations, with some observers predicting that unlicensed surgeries outnumbered the legal ones by three or four times. A 2012 story in The Economist claimed that as many as 70% of all comsmetic surgeries were illegal A major scandal erupted in November the same year when a well known talent show singer died on the operating table undergoing routine facial surgery.
The government has clamped down on the outragous advertising that some clinics use, often saying that the entire body of a person can be transformed after a 30 minute procedure, other claim that changes in personality can be brought about by a mere flick of the surgeons knife. Orders from the central government say that surgeons qualifications should be more carefully scrutinized, and those who don't make the grade should be "seriously dealt with".
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