TheXiaxue -Plastic surgery questions answered! (Part 1 & 2)
Xiaxue
Personal life
Born on 28 April 1984,[1] Xiaxue studied at River Valley High School and graduated from Singapore Polytechnic with a diploma in mass media,[2] then briefly worked as a project coordinator.[3] Her father, an antique dealer,[3] and her mother, a property agent,[3] are divorced;[1] she also has a younger brother.[3] For a year, she maintained a paper diary, which her ex-boyfriend's new girlfriend threw away during a Chinese New Year spring cleaning. Wanting to air her thoughts in a space that nobody could throw away,[3][4] she started blogging in April 2003.[5] In 2010, she married American engineer Mike Sayre, whom she met online and had dated for three years,[6] and in September 2012, she announced she was pregnant.[7]
Blog
Xiaxue has ten blogs, including her main blog, a geeky blog, her media centre and several private blogs. She selected her pseudonym, which means "snowing" in Mandarin Chinese, because it "had that tinge of mysterious, beautiful girl thing about it".[4] On her main blog, which attracts about 50,000 readers daily,[8][9] she provides updates about her personal life, posts photographs, writes about topics such as fashion, discusses local issues such as "nasty taxi drivers", and posts paid advertorials.[3][4] She often uses profanity in her posts and her success has been attributed to her provocative writing style.[3][5] According to a survey she conducted, which attracted 6000 responses, her readers are mainly Singaporean, female, young adults interested in fashion and "looking for an alternative voice".[4] Her main blog was the first Singapore blog to enter the Technorati Global Top 100 Blogs List,[10] was selected for the National Library Board archive in 2008,[5] and has won several awards, including the 2004 and 2005 Wizbang Weblog Awards Best Asian Blog and the 2005 Bloggies Best Asian Weblog.[5][10]
Other media
Due to the popularity of her main blog, Xiaxue has earned jobs in mainstream media, notably as a columnist for national newspapers TODAY and The New Paper, Maxim magazine and Snag magazine.[5] She has a sponsorship deal with T-shirt maker LocalBrand and was also previously sponsored by hair salon Kimage and nail studio Voxy.[2] In 2006, she and DJ Rosalyn Lee co-hosted Girls Out Loud, a reality TV series on MediaCorp Channel 5, where they engage in "outrageous antics and no-holds-barred banter".[11] She has a fortnightly series, called Xiaxue's Guide to Life, on the web television channel clicknetwork.tv;[5] its highest-rated episode had more than 325,000 viewers. The Health Promotion Board selected her as an ambassador for their Get Fresh campaign to discourage women from smoking and help female smokers quit.[10]
Controversy
In October 2005, Xiaxue wrote an entry condemning a disabled man, who scolded a non-disabled man for using the toilet for the disabled, leading to an online backlash that prompted two of her then-sponsors to cancel their deals.[2] Two months later, she suggested that foreign workers be banned from Orchard Road, as they were molesting Singaporean girls; many netizens condemned her posts as "racist rants" and signed an online petition to ban her from Orchard Road. She was accused of impersonating another blogger and abusing her position as a Tomorrow.sg editor to remove comments critical of her in January 2006.[8] She has a heated rivalry with blogger Dawn Yang, who threatened to sue her for an allegedly defamatory post in June 2008.[9]
References
^ ab"FAQs", xiaxue.blogspot.com, Retrieved 9 July 2012.
^ abc"Hard-hitting blogger flushed with success", The Straits Times, 31 December 2005.
The Morning Show: Extreme plastic surgery (Justin Jedlica & Lacey Wildd)
From a human Ken doll to the mother with L-cup breasts, a look at the most extreme cases of plastic surgery
By Sadie Whitelocks PUBLISHED:22:17 GMT, 12 October 2012| UPDATED:08:02 GMT, 18 December 2012
(source: dailymail.co.uk)
A new show looks at some of the most extreme cases of plastic surgery. Justin Jedlica, one of the stars of20/20 Going to Extremes, refers to himself as a human Ken doll, and has spent $100,000 on more than 90 procedures over the past decade. Instead of going to the gym, the 32-year-old, from New York, uses surgery as a quick fix, and his sculpted physique is the result of numerous silicone implants. Scroll down for video
Under the knife: Justin Jedlica, who refers to himself as a human Ken doll, has had numerous implants to help him achieve a sculpted physique
Describing working out as 'not exciting, glamorous, or fabulous', Mr Jedlica has shaped his upper chest and arm areas using bicep, tricep pectoral implants.
Mr Jedlica's obsession with cosmetic surgery started after he decided to get a nose job in his mid-twenties. He has since had four more, each one 'not as extreme and exaggerated as I wanted'. 'I'm closer to... the picture that I have in my head,' he adds.
Mr Jedlica's obsession with cosmetic surgery started after he decided to get a nose job in his mid-twenties
Extreme: Mr Jedlica has shaped his upper chest and arm areas using bicep, trIcep pectoral implants
Asked if he's worried his body won't be able to withstand further surgery, he says that he understands the risks and is 'willing to take those on'. Mother-of-six Lacey Wildd also features in the upcoming documentary.
''I think I look okay. I'm trying to look like a certain type, like almost like a Barbie type'
The mother-of-six, who has had 12 operations to give her L-cup breasts, says she will not stop having cosmetic surgery until they are the biggest in the world. The 44-year-old based in Hollywood, whose real name is Paula Simonds, currently has the seventh biggest breasts in the world, and together they weigh 21 pounds. She has also had two tummy tucks, four full body liposuctions, abs sculpting, bottom implants and two bottom lifts. The glamour model said. 'I think I look okay. I'm trying to look like a certain type, like almost like a Barbie type.'
One surgery too far? Lacey Wildd has had 12 operations to give her L-cup breasts and says she will not stop having cosmetic surgery until they are the biggest in the world
Wow! Ms Wildd describes that she was a tomboy as a girl (left) but today she works as a glamour model (right)
Earlier this year she said she was considering more surgery, to take her from triple-L cups to triple-M, to become 'the number-one booked breast star', however she remains an L-cup. Ms Wildd describes that she was a tomboy as a girl. But after becoming a single mother as a teenager and struggling to make ends meet as a waitress, she decided to reinvent herself, undergoing 12 breast augmentations, changing her name and becoming a model.
Hinting at her current salary Ms Wildd revealed that models like her make around $250,000 per year.
Career boost: Ms Wildd (left) after surgery in 2001 and today (right)
Cosmetic and reconstructive surgeon Dr Alberto Gallerani, based in Miami, warned that Ms Wildd may be suffering from body dysmorphic disorder and should not have further breast implants. Going to Extremes,airs on ABC at 10pm tonight. An extreme dieter, who permanently wears a corset to train her waist to a smaller size, and a journalist, who has written about her experiences being a topless lap dancer in secret clubs and a naked sushi model also appear on the show.
Why Do Some People Go Under the Knife Time and Time Again? Four People Tell Their Stories
It doesn't take a trained eye to spot someone who's had too much work done on his face. But when does a person move beyond simply sporting frozen features into the realm of obsession? "There is such a thing as too much plastic surgery," says Dr. Roxanne Guy, president of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. Too much, she says, is when patients repeatedly turn to the scalpel "to fill an emotional need." They may run up debts of hundreds of thousands of dollars and alienate family and friends in order to undergo multiple invasive and potentially risky procedures. Are they addicted? "It's not an official diagnosis," says Dr. Katharine Phillips, a psychiatrist at Rhode Island's Butler Hospital body image program. "But certainly patients can feel very driven to get cosmetic procedures; that it is their only hope." In some instances, patients may be suffering from body dysmorphic disorder, a debilitating preoccupation with slight or nonexistent flaws that afflicts 1 to 3 percent of Americans, but up to 15 percent of cosmetic surgery patients. With a high suicide rate, BDD "is not vanity," says Phillips. "It's a serious illness." Rather than more surgery, says Guy, people suspected of BDD "need to be referred for a psychological evaluation. Part of our ethical standards is not to operate if there isn't a need." The individuals on these pages—driven to cut and recut their faces and bodies for a variety of reasons—share stories of confronting their fixations.
The former farm boy has had 37 cosmetic procedures to help him feel he fits in the Beverly Hills beauty industry Steve Erhardt, 49
Abdominal etching, or Ab etching, is a plastic surgery procedure invented by plastic surgeonHenry A. Mentz, III in the early 1990s that uses a special cannula to contour and shape abdominal fat pad to provide patients with a flatter stomach. The procedure selectively removes a small amount of fat around the patient's natural muscular contours and shapes or sculpts the abdomen to create a more athletic contour.
Prior to the procedure, the surgeon makes detailed markings of the patient's flexed ab muscles and uses the markings to remove fat and highlight the patient's individual muscular structure. The procedure is suitable for patients who are already in shape and who have between one to two centimeters of "pinchable belly fat". It is not suitable for patients with larger accumulations of abdominal fat seeking to significantly reduce their belly size or accomplish weight reductions as the amount of fat removed is fairly small. A traditional liposuction is more suitable for those patients.
Michael Jackson was in the public spotlight since he was a small child. In that time, he transformed from a cute little African-American kid with a 70s afro into a thin, light-skinned man in a black wig with a comically tapered nose. His plastic surgery is so obvious that it’s the stuff of urban legend. People have long speculated that he bleached his skin for cosmetic purposes, and prescription lightening cream was even found among his effectsat auction. Jackson said he suffered from the auto-immune disease vitiligo, which lightens the skin in patches. That same cream is used to treat his condition and it’s possible that once Jackson opted to lighten his skin there was no going back and trying to cover up the parts that lost pigment.
Now that we know the end of Jackson’s story (or perhaps 3/4 of it given the battle that’s about to ensue over his estate) it tugs at the heart strings to see what a cute little boy he was and how he eventually ended up – thin, pale, and finally broken by a decades-old addiction. The news of his demise and his abuse of prescription drug medication puts his eccentricity in an entirely different light. This was a man who was heavily doped out of his mind and who lost his fortune and eventually his life to drugs. In Touch gave me this idea with a photo timeline in this week’s issue featuring Jackson as a child up until these last few months of his life. Although I’ve seen many photos of him throughout the years and knew that he changed so much it’s fascinating to see the pictures lined up in order. I’ve recreated it here with different photos. The biggest difference in Jackson’s appearance was made by his multiple nose jobs, which eventually left him with a thin pencil of a nose that looked like it was pinched. Jackson’s last plastic surgeon is said to have been “a normal guy” who wasn’t particularly strange or fame-wh*rish as far as plastic surgeons go. If he kept performing surgeries on MJ he was an enabler, though, just like many of the other people who surrounded him in his last days. It’s no wonder, because Jackson fired and distanced himself from everyone who ever told him “no.” (Source: celebitchy.com)
Aesthetic plastic surgery, also called Medical aesthetics, involves techniques intended for the "enhancement" of appearance through surgical and medical techniques, and is specifically concerned with maintaining normal appearance, restoring it, or enhancing it beyond the average level toward some aesthetic ideal.
In 2006, nearly 11 million cosmetic procedures were performed in the United States alone. The number of cosmetic procedures performed in the United States has increased over 50 percent since the start of the century. Nearly 12 million cosmetic procedures were performed in 2007, with the five most common surgeries being breast augmentation, liposuction, nasal surgery, eyelid surgery and abdominoplasty. The American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery looks at the statistics for thirty-four different cosmetic procedures. Nineteen of the procedures are surgical, such as rhinoplasty or facelift. The nonsurgical procedures include Botox and laser hair removal. In 2010, their survey revealed that there were 9,336,814 total procedures in the United States. Of those, 1,622,290 procedures were surgical (p. 5). They also found that a large majority, 81%, of the procedures were done on Caucasian people (p. 12). The increased use of cosmetic procedures crosses racial and ethnic lines in the U.S., with increases seen among African-Americans and Hispanic Americans as well as Caucasian Americans. In Europe, the second largest market for cosmetic procedures, cosmetic surgery is a $2.2 billion business. Cosmetic surgery is now very common in countries such as the United Kingdom, France, and Germany. In Asia, cosmetic surgery has become an accepted practice, and countries such as China and India has become Asia's biggest cosmetic surgery markets. Thailand is also one of the main cosmetic surgery markets in Asia, in particular for affordable breast augmentation and sex reassignment surgery, with international patients coming from Australia, Europe and neighboring Asian countries.
The most prevalent aesthetic/cosmetic procedures include:
Phalloplasty ("penile liposuction") : construction (or reconstruction) of a penis or, sometimes, artificial modification of the penis by surgery, often for cosmetic purposes
Breast augmentations ("breast implant" or "boob job"): augmentation of the breasts by means of fat grafting, saline, or silicone gel prosthetics, which was initially performed to women with micromastia
Reduction mammoplasty ("breast reduction"): removal of skin and glandular tissue, which is done to reduce back and shoulder pain in women with gigantomastia and/or for psychological benefit men with gynecomastia
Mastopexy ("breast lift"): Lifting or reshaping of breasts to make them less saggy, often after weight loss (after a pregnancy, for example). It involves removal of breast skin as opposed to glandular tissue
Buttock augmentation ("butt implant"): enhancement of the buttocks using silicone implants or fat grafting ("Brazilian butt lift") and transfer from other areas of the body
Buttock lift: lifting, and tightening of the buttocks by excision of redundant skin
Midface lift ("cheek lift"): tightening of the cheeks
Chin augmentation ("chin implant"): augmentation of the chin with an implant, usually silicone, by sliding genioplasty of the jawbone or by suture of the soft tissue
Born on 28 April 1984,[1] Xiaxue studied at River Valley High School and graduated from Singapore Polytechnic with a diploma in mass media,[2] then briefly worked as a project coordinator.[3] Her father, an antique dealer,[3] and her mother, a property agent,[3] are divorced;[1] she also has a younger brother.[3] For a year, she maintained a paper diary, which her ex-boyfriend's new girlfriend threw away during a Chinese New Year spring cleaning. Wanting to air her thoughts in a space that nobody could throw away,[3][4] she started blogging in April 2003.[5] In 2010, she married American engineer Mike Sayre, whom she met online and had dated for three years,[6] and in September 2012, she announced she was pregnant.[7]
Xiaxue has ten blogs, including her main blog, a geeky blog, her media centre and several private blogs. She selected her pseudonym, which means "snowing" in Mandarin Chinese, because it "had that tinge of mysterious, beautiful girl thing about it".[4] On her main blog, which attracts about 50,000 readers daily,[8][9] she provides updates about her personal life, posts photographs, writes about topics such as fashion, discusses local issues such as "nasty taxi drivers", and posts paid advertorials.[3][4] She often uses profanity in her posts and her success has been attributed to her provocative writing style.[3][5] According to a survey she conducted, which attracted 6000 responses, her readers are mainly Singaporean, female, young adults interested in fashion and "looking for an alternative voice".[4] Her main blog was the first Singapore blog to enter the Technorati Global Top 100 Blogs List,[10] was selected for the National Library Board archive in 2008,[5] and has won several awards, including the 2004 and 2005 Wizbang Weblog Awards Best Asian Blog and the 2005 Bloggies Best Asian Weblog.[5][10]
Due to the popularity of her main blog, Xiaxue has earned jobs in mainstream media, notably as a columnist for national newspapers TODAY and The New Paper, Maxim magazine and Snag magazine.[5] She has a sponsorship deal with T-shirt maker LocalBrand and was also previously sponsored by hair salon Kimage and nail studio Voxy.[2] In 2006, she and DJ Rosalyn Lee co-hosted Girls Out Loud, a reality TV series on MediaCorp Channel 5, where they engage in "outrageous antics and no-holds-barred banter".[11] She has a fortnightly series, called Xiaxue's Guide to Life, on the web television channel clicknetwork.tv;[5] its highest-rated episode had more than 325,000 viewers. The Health Promotion Board selected her as an ambassador for their Get Fresh campaign to discourage women from smoking and help female smokers quit.[10]
