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BEIJING: A Chinese actress has shared shocking photos of her failed “nightmare” nose job, warning fans about the dangers of cosmetic surgery.
Gao Liu posted candid photos of her face after surgery on China’s Weibo Twitter platform, which showed a part of her nose blackened with dead flesh.
She wrote to her five million followers that the experience had left her feeling suicidal and cost her several acting jobs.
“I had thought that these four hours (of surgery) would make me more beautiful, but I did not realize that it would be the beginning of a nightmare,” she wrote Tuesday.
Plastic surgery is booming in China, with an estimated 15.2 million patients undergoing surgery last year, according to a report by Chinese market research firm iiMedia.
Gao said she hoped the surgery would enhance her acting career.
But what she thought was a “microadjustment” to graft cartilage to the tip of her nose in late October left her infected, requiring repeated follow-up surgeries, she wrote.
Gao said she was later hospitalized for 61 days and lost about 400,000 yuan (RM251,561) at work.
The photos he posted of his face show a clear patch of blackened flesh on the tip of his nose, as well as bandages and bruises.
His post this week has sparked sympathy online and the hashtag “why cosmetic surgery is becoming more and more common” had garnered 330 million views on Weibo on Friday.
“I feel so bad for Gao Liu, everyone should take this as a warning and be aware of the risks of cosmetic surgery,” wrote one user in a comment that was liked more than 100,000 times.
“We must emphasize natural beauty,” wrote another.
A local health office in the southern city of Guangzhou, where the clinic is located, confirmed it was investigating the matter, Chinese media reported.
China became the second largest plastic surgery market in the world in 2020, worth more than US $ 14 billion (RM56 billion) according to a report by Daxue Consulting.
Medical disputes in the sector are rampant, and iiMedia has estimated that only 12% of China’s more than 13,000 beauty clinics comply with laws and regulations.
Many patients are young women, influenced by high standards of beauty set by celebrities and ubiquitous online influencers. – AFP
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