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主题: 【BBC新闻】The cost of being "pretty" in Thailand [] |
![]() 【BBC新闻】The cost of being "pretty" in Thailand 泰国“美女”的代价 大家论坛 ![]() The cost of being "pretty" in Thailand 泰国“美女”的代价 By Jonah Fisher BBC News, Bangkok They’re beautiful, well dressed and for the right price will promote anything from washing powder to luxury cars. But working as a product promoter or "pretty" in Thailand is an occupation where image counts for everything. At 32, Athitiya Eiamyai had reached the age when most "pretties" start to find demand for their services falling. For a decade she had batted her eyelashes and flashed a ready smile to promote everything from luxury cars to new mobile phones. But for Athitiya, or Kratae as everyone knew her, retiring gracefully from this $100-a-day job was not an option. She had parents and siblings who depended on the money she earned and she told her friends she was determined to fight ageing every step of the way. In the last five years of her life, she had invested thousands of dollars into altering the way she looked. Her skin had been lightened and she’d had several rounds of surgery to change her nose, narrow her jaw and augment her breasts. But according to her best friend and fellow pretty Pim Saisanard, she still wasn’t happy. There are two main procedures surgeons use to increase your buttock size. The method most plastic surgeons recommend is to have fat sucked out from your stomach and reinjected into your backside. Kratae was lean and had no fat to spare so she looked at options which involved artificial substances or "fillers" being injected. Mr Natveerakul was no doctor, and had very limited experience of cosmetic surgery, but he did have a good reputation among the ladyboy community, having helped many of them achieve a more feminine shape. He agreed to meet Kratae in an apartment and inject her buttocks with a gel filler for a cut-price 40,000 baht ($1,333). Exactly what went wrong with the procedure is still unclear. But in the minutes after the gel was injected Kratae complained that she was having trouble breathing. It seems likely that instead of finding fatty tissue Dr Pop injected the filler directly into an artery. The gel would then have travelled into her lungs, created a blockage which in turn lead to her brain being starved of oxygen. In a panic Dr Pop drove Kratae to the hospital but shortly afterwards she collapsed into a coma from which she never recovered. Three weeks later her parents agreed that the ventilator should be switched off and she was pronounced dead shortly afterwards. 三周之后,卡拉狄的父母最终同意拔掉输氧管,接受卡拉狄死亡的事实。
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