From AP via China Daily:
The beautician from Chairman Mao‘s hometown looks at herself in the mirror and bursts into tears of joy. Forty pounds lighter, jaw slimmer, eyes and nose refined, breasts lifted, 30-year-old Chen Jing has just been through an extreme makeover for a Chinese reality show called “Lovely Cinderella.”
It’s a sharp insight into China’s own makeover, as a consumer generation moves ever further from Mao Zedong’s era of drab-is-beautiful austerity.
Modeled after “The Swan,” Fox TV’s reality television show, “Lovely Cinderella” was created in central China’s Hunan province and has tapped into a surging Chinese interest in cosmetics and cosmetic surgery — luxuries beyond the means of most a generation ago, but gaining in popularity as incomes grow….[Full Text]
-Photo: Yang Yuan, who underwent a plastic surgery in 2004.
