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Surgery to Look Like an Anime Character

Haven't we all wished for shapelier boobs, a sharper nose or more deep-set eyes?

Jacqueline Koh wanted much more. She wanted to look similar the archetypal anime girl – a eye-shaped face, large sparkling eyes, a small nose and mentum, flatter ears, a svelte torso and total, ripe breasts.

In her quest, the 29-year-old fashion designer at homegrown fashion boutique The Blog Shop has undergone ix plastic surgery procedures and i correction job.

The price: $136,000 in total – the well-nigh expensive existence her $36,000 breast augmentation procedure.

She yet isn't completely satisfied and rates her looks 3 and a one-half out of v.

"I'll be perfect five the day I don't need to Photoshop my pictures," she says.

She ever touches upward her pictures earlier posting them on her blog at www.jacquelinekoh.com.

She hopes to finally achieve "perfection" this March, after she goes for her 2d correction job with the same Korean surgeon who did her numerous facial operations.

The md volition making her nose tip even smaller and her chin slightly more Five-shaped.

It all started 2 years agone when she put on 6kg in well-nigh a year and a one-half, even though in that location was no change in her nutrition. At 1.6m and 48kg, she says she looked chubby.

She thinks gained weight considering "my metabolism was slowing downwardly" and for iii months, she ate less and exercised to shed the backlog weight.

"I ate one repast a day, worked out on the Stairmas for 15 minutes and did the biceps curlicue using 1kg dumbbells every day," she says. But she didn't slim down.

Exasperated, she decided to go all out. She wanted not just to lose weight, merely too to revamp her entire await.

Improving her advent was ever on her mind, she says. Her weight proceeds was simply the catalyst.

Though Jacqueline says she's "not an anime fan", she settled on the await of anime girls because she "really likes [their] big optics and pocket-size faces."

She also wrote a list of all the procedures she wanted to go for to get her ideal look.

Her family and friends had e'er said she looked perfectly all right, but she felt she was "just boilerplate-looking".

She says: "They think I didn't need to go for my operations in get-go place, but information technology's a personal choice. Information technology volition exist plenty when I think it'due south plenty."

Did a former verbally and physically abusive human relationship that ended in 2004 – Her World ran a story on information technology a few years agone – have annihilation to do with her extreme makeover?

Jacqueline vehemently says no. "I had all the procedures done for myself."

A disastrous start

A disastrous get-go

She beginning had Vaser Lipo (a procedure like liposuction, but gentler) in February 2010.

She paid $10,000 to have information technology done by a local general practitioner she found online.

She was put under twilight amazement – a type of anaesthesic that sedates you but doesn't knock you out – which made the experience unnerving.

"I could hear the doctor and nurses speaking and feel tubes beingness inserted into my body. I didn't feel whatsoever hurting just it was frightening," she recalls.

She asked the medico to plow on soothing music to calm her down and kept repeating to herself: "I'm going to be skinny presently." Merely that didn't happen.

Afterwards the procedure, "I had bruises and lumps all over my bod like I had been beaten up," she says.

For iii months, she waited for her body to heal and couldn't do much except to lie in bed.

Bored, she kept herself busy by surfing the Internet, reading and listening to music. Thankfully, she could work from domicile.

The bruises went away, simply there were "dents" and "zigzag lines" on her arms, legs an buttocks because, she claims "the doctor didn't remove the fat evenly".

"I looked like a freak," she recalls.

She too ballooned to 58kg despite eating usually.

She went dorsum to the doctor and demanded he re-exercise the procedure for free. He did, but it didn't help. The "dents" reappeared.

Frustrated, she looked elsewhere for a solution. Going online, she stumbled across a non-surgical, non-invasive procedure called Velashape, in which a machine is used to pull on your skin to reshape your torso.

According to Jacqueline, it feels similar a warm deep tissue massage. She flew to Bangkok lonely to have the procedure washed at Yanhee Hospital there because it toll but U.s.$300 (Due south$385) per session. Local doctors were charging $ane,600.

After iii sessions, she said the lumps on her body smoothened out.

At the same fourth dimension, she went on a detox diet, "drinking only fresh fruit juice for five days and eating just breakfast for nine days". She besides exercised. Her weight dropped to 45kg and she has maintained it e'er since.

Looking to Seoul

That harrowing first experience didn't deter her from going for more than procedures. But she made sure she did her homework first.

She visited x local surgeons to ask questions about their procedures and did her research online.

In June 2010, she got her boobs done by a top-notch local surgeon. She went from a 32A to a 34C.

"I couldn't run across my anxiety," she says, recalling her swelled-up mail service-surgery chest.

The doctor told her that the swelling would get down by 70 per cent, and information technology did. She was very pleased with the results.

There was no stopping her now. Four months afterward, she flew to Seoul – together with her ex-boyfriend and a girlfriend to lend moral back up – to become her eyes, olfactory organ, ears and mentum done.

She chose South Korea because "the surgeons at that place are more experienced in giving me the await I wanted than local ones".

She shopped for a surgeon on the first day and decided on who was friendly and spoke English well.

In one 24-hour interval, she had several operations to make her eyes bigger and more deep-prepare, otoplasty to flatten her ears and rhinoplasty to acuminate her nose.

Cartilage from her ear was used as an implant for her nose bridge.

Three days later, she got a chin implant. The airfare and accommodation cost most $three,000 in total.

Though she was mentally prepared, she still ended up in tears after the operations.

"I was depressed," she says. "I felt ugly. My swelled-up head looked like a pig's caput."

She didn't expect in the mirror for the 2 weeks she was in Seoul and kept telling herself that she was going to look cute once her wounds healed.

Going public online

Going public online

Equally Jacqueline was dissatisfied with the results from the Korea trip – "my eyes were uneven and my nose too high and my chin protruded besides much", she recalls – she went back to the same surgeon in Seoul terminal May for a correction job.

He evened out her eyes, lowered her olfactory organ bridge, made her olfactory organ tip and chin smaller, and shaved her cheekbones to slim down her face.

Everything took a total of two to iii hours.

This time, she recovered in two weeks because she took Sineech, a medication that brings downwardly the swelling.

She says the surgeon volition do as many revisions every bit she wants, complimentary of charge, till satisfied.

Last Baronial, she wrote in her weblog about her operations because she wanted to help others make more informed choices well-nigh plastic surgery.

Besides read: Malaysian model shares her plastic surgery journey

On the beginning day of the mail service, she received 824 e-mails from readers (whom she calls "fans") asking for her advice.

"I didn't write about my procedures to become famous," she insists.

"I wanted to help women go as beautiful every bit me or fifty-fifty more beautiful. When I was doing research for operations, people weren't that open to sharing their experiences."

Today, her weblog has a growing "fan base", which is made up mostly of local working women in their 20s to 40s.

She also gets 800 to 900 east-mails a twenty-four hour period from readers seeking advice on procedures. She replies to all of them, she says.

She too gives her fans a listing of surgeons to cull from and tells them what to look for.

"It'southward very important to meet with the doctors beforehand to inquire questions," she advises. "I ever ask about the procedure, recovery process and possible complications in detail."

The finish is almost?

The stop is near?

Subsequently the upcoming correction job in March, Jacqueline doesn't run into herself going for whatsoever procedures – for now.

"Maybe a facelift in 2 or three years' fourth dimension," she says lightly. Merely she will have her biannual Botox and fillers set to smooth out her nasal folds and facial lines.

Each procedure will cost between $600 and $1,000.

For daily maintenance, she uses a facial mask and spends $50 to $100 a month on skincare.

She also applies scar gel to the remaining Vaser scars.

She doesn't have any other visible scars except for incisions under her breasts.

Every week, she uses 3 different handheld aesthetic machines to rejuvenate her skin.

She imports them from South Korea, Nippon and the United states of america, and sells them on her online store yourbeautyguru.com.sg because, she says, her fans are always asking how she maintains her glowing pare.

When asked how she feels about her looks, she says: "I feel really skilful nearly myself, definitely better than earlier."

And she'south quick to reiterate: "I've had all these operations done for myself. I just want to make myself happy."

She also insists that it's just her exterior that has changed. "I'm withal the same person on the within."

What she had washed

The procedures she did

Face

• Double eyelid surgery and cutting of the inner and outer corners of her eyes

• Nose chore

• Flattening of her ears

• Shaving of her cheekbones

• Chin implant

Torso

• Vaser Lipo: A gentler class of liposuction on her torso

• Velashape: Pulling on pare to reshape her trunk

• Puppet job: Upsizing her breasts from 32A to 34C

What can go wrong after the surgery

What can become incorrect after the surgery

Complications don't often occur. Only the healing process may go haywire.

Also read: When plastic surgeries get wrong (Picture show gallery)

Breast implants

"Hardening of chest implants can affect 5 per cent to x per cent of patients," says Dr JJ Chua of JJ Chua Rejuvenative Cosmetic & Light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation Surgery.

"This can be due to the torso'southward overzealous allowed organisation forming a sheathing of hard fibres around the implant," explains Dr Chow Yuen Ho, a director at TCS at Central Dispensary.

Avert this by massaging your breasts minutes a day or by doing whatever exercise.

"The implants may also get infected," adds Dr Chow. Doctors reduce the risk of infection past putting patients on a curt course of antibiotics subsequently the surgery.

"If the infection is bad, the implants will have to be removed," he said.

"New implants can only be re-inserted when the infection has cleared up."

Double eyelid surgery

"Y'all chance getting multiple creases on the eyes and scarring, due to poor wound recovery," says Dr Chow.

Reduce your risk past going for minimally invasive techniques which utilise smaller incisions.

Nose job

Exist careful during sports and avoid over-exuberant facial massages and ambitious extraction done during facials.

"Otherwise, your olfactory organ implant can get infected and you lot'll accept to remove it," cautions Dr Chua.

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