Nekesa Mumbi Moody wrote for the Huffington Post that Jessica Alba was upset about a Chinese woman having plastic surgery to look like her so she could win her Alba obsessed ex-boyfriend back.
When this news hit the stands in February, I missed it.
I’m currently watching Alba in Dark Angel on DVDs, a TV series that survived two seasons. I’ve seen Alba in the Fantastic Four franchise and that’s about it. She’s a talented actress that started with a small role in 1994 in Camp Nowhere, a film that didn’t do well.
However, Alba went on to compile an impressive history in film, was nominated for 29 awards and won nine.
Alba was right when she said, “I think you should never have to change yourself like that. If someone loves you, they’ll love you no matter what.”
Well, I wouldn’t agree totally with “no matter what” and there may be another side to this story. In China, what you hear is often not the real story.
In China, the odds of being successful at anything are daunting. Less than 15% make it into universities and most of China’s more than 1.3 billion people work hard for little pay earning enough so they won’t starve or become homeless.
On the other hand, there’s a growing shortage of women in China and this woman that wants to look like Jessica Alba should have no trouble finding another man without the plastic surgery.
In fact, the woman who wants to look like Jessica Alba isn’t the only woman changing her looks to gain something.
Over 40 and Feeling Fine says, “There’s an article on ABC News about women in China going under the knife to have ‘western’ eyes, fuller lips, bigger breasts and longer legs.”
Anne Marie Dorning at ABC News says, “Imagine, if you will, a surgeon breaking your leg bones in four places, then attaching a steel scaffold frame to the outside of your limbs with metal pins jutting into your bones.”
The odds are that the woman who wants to look like Alba may be doing this for other reasons than for love. Looking like Jessica Alba in China may lead to success in other areas.
Consider what this young woman accomplished. She used love and sacrifice bordering on the insane to gain the attention of the world’s media, and a well-known American actress responded.
This Chinese woman may have found a way to get to the head of the line. If successful, she will probably write a book about how she did it. Knowing the Chinese obsession to achieve success, it would be a best seller.
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Lloyd Lofthouse is the award-winning author of the concubine saga, My Splendid Concubine & Our Hart. When you love a Chinese woman, you marry her family and culture too.
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