Chinese mother threatens to disown her ‘cosmetic-surgery addicted’ daughter on television
My daughter is not the girl she used to be – literally – says despairing mother after 29-year-old spends 800,000 yuan on 20 operations and counting
A Chinese woman said she can hardly recognise her 29-year-old daughter whom she described as being addicted to plastic surgery, and threatened during a television programme to disown her if she continued to transform her appearance.
During a popular talk show aired on Thursday by Jiangsu Satellite Television, the 61-year-old mother told her daughter, who had splashed out nearly 800,000 yuan (HK$950,000) on more than 20 cosmetic operations over two years, that she felt heartbroken by her daughter’s ever-changing face.
“Every time I see her, she looks different - I can hardly recognise her even though I’m her mother,” said the woman, who was not identified in the programme, to the audience.
“Now my daughter’s face has been totally reshaped, all her extended family say she looks rather like a monster. How can I not be worried?”
The daughter, Yu Ning, ran a clothing business before falling in love with cosmetic surgery, despite already being regarded by her friends as “a good-looking girl”.
She said in the programme that she aspired to become another Fan Bingbing, a prominent Chinese actress esteemed for her pale skin, big eyes, pointed chin and fine nose.
Every time I see her, she looks different - I can hardly recognise her even though I’m her mother
Yu first underwent jaw contorting and a nose job in China. Amazed at the stunning look of Korean pop stars, she visited Seoul, the world’s plastic surgery capital, for a more ambitious revamp of her face.
She had a nose reconstruction in Korea to make it higher, before realising that her eyes were “too small”.
Soon afterwards, she had the shape of her eyes altered as well as a double eyelid operation, only to find out that her “jaw had become too long”. So Yu underwent a second jaw contouring operation in Korea.
“My new plan this year is to have a height-lengthening surgery” she said, adding that the procedures would require the doctor to break her shin bones to insert implants to add a several centimetres to her height.
Yu’s remarks made her mother burst into tears immediately. But the younger woman kept smiling, as she said she could not control her facial expressions effectively following a recent surgery that curled her lips upwards.
