Jessica Alba is advising a young woman in China not to get plastic surgery in an attempt to resemble her. A 21 year-old woman known only as Xiaoqing, will reportedly undergo the knife in an attempt to win back a boyfriend. Alba said that’s not a good reason to get surgery and that the girl shouldn’t do it. Just look at Heidi Montag, she got surgery and the cover of People Magazine and didn’t even sell 1,000 copies of her CD.
This is one doppelganger Jessica Alba would rather live without.
The Hollywood beauty says she is distressed at reports a woman in China plans to undergo extensive plastic surgery to look like her, in an attempt to win her ex-boyfriend back.
“I think you should never have to change yourself like that,” actress Alba said. “If somebody loves you, they’ll love you no matter what.”
A 21-year-old woman, who would only give her name as Xiaoqing, has been told she will need multiple surgeries to make her eyes and nose resemble those of the “Fantastic Four” star.
Still, she thinks the procedure is worth it to win back the heart of her ex-boyfriend, who is a huge Alba fan.
The woman says her former beau adorned the walls of their home with Alba’s images and would often hint he wished she looked more like her.
The couple dated for a year and a half but broke up a month ago when the 28-year-old’s obsession with the star got to be too much.
Now Xiaoqing, who works for an Internet firm in Shanghai, is regretting the split.
“My friends … kept consoling me, but it did not work, so they suggested I do plastic surgery to look like [Jessica Alba],” she told Reuters.
Doctors at Shanghai Time Plastic Surgery Hospital have offered to do the procedure for free to showcase their surgical skills.
[From The NY Daily News]
If the girl is going to get free plastic surgery she’ll probably take doctors up on their offer. She’s 21 and already resembles Jessica Alba. It’s hard to see her face in the one photo I’ve seen (above) but she looks really gorgeous and is only going to screw up her face if she gets work done so young. (Again, see Heidi Montag.) Plus, changing your appearance to get an ex back is short sighted to say the least, especially when it’s permanent and irreversible. Breakups happen for any number of reasons and if a guy is superficial enough to break up with you for looks he’s not worth winning back.
This reminds me of the story of the dying girl who had plastic surgery to look like Demi “I haven’t had plastic surgery” Moore. The woman was already lovely, and she said she was doing it in order to die beautiful. Whatever happened to old fashioned makeovers and a healthy dose of self esteem? I guess there are always going to be people who are so lost and sad that they think surgery is the answer.
Header image is of Alba when she was pregnant in January, 2008. Credit: WENN.com. Image of Xiaoqing via NY Daily News
Wow that girl has some really crappy friends!
BTW what ever happened to that dying girl who wanted to look like Demi??
There is whole cultural subtext here that needs to be taken into account. The girl is Chinese. In their society (and that of Korean and Japan, as well), the Confucian influences essentially dictate that social structures must reflect a harmony that arguably exists in nature. So one must give the appearance of being socially acceptable and socially compliant. Essentially, if you have to change the very core of who you are in order to reflect what is perceived as more perfect or viable, so be it.
It’s easy to be judgmental. We as individualistic-loving Westerners hold different values and have been spoon-fed the concept of personal agency since we were old enough to read an Orwell novel, but they don’t readily perceive it that way. Just like most of us don’t readily question the concept of personal rights. Where I’m living it’s common for parents to suggest to their teenage children to get eyelid surgery or whatever cosmetic enhancement so that they will be more attractive to the opposite sex, and therefore will have more sucess finding a mate. Furthermore, in their societies you will be appraised on these things. What kind of car do you drive? Who are your parents? What is your annual income? Again, however, it’s not perceived as shallow. Compliance makes you acceptable and like everyone else, and they are taught that that is a good thing.
Unbelieveable. This is just shocking and wrong. AND.. SHAME on the doctors offering it for free, like she is some Guinea Pig. I can only hope they have skills and are not just practicing.
This girl needs to WAKE the eff up. Honestly I would’ve never stuck around for as long as she did, with their house plastered with Alba. Something really wrong with this dude…
@ViktoryGin
Very well said. I lived in Asia for many years, and you put the social compliance, the parental pressure, the “shallow” questions, etc, so well.
This woman will end up getting the surgery because her ex, her friends and probably her parents are all telling her to do it. Plus, the doctor is performing it for free.
Yikes, I really feel for Jessica Alba; what a strange position to be in. Imagine having to answer questions like what would you say to a stranger thousands of miles away who plans to have extensive surgery to become your doppleganger? That’s whacked.
@ ViktoryGin – you make some really good points here, but I can’t help but feel like the ick factor is higher because the goal is to look like a specific person. General cosmetic surgery is one thing to me, while actively seeking to emulate a real person is a little creepy.
Coming soon after the surgery is suicide when he confirms she’s crazier than him and dumps her again.
Chinese culture is suppose to be about virtues and traditions and all. looks is valued, but it’s far from “all”, this guy is a far cry from a gentleman in the Chinese sense, and the girl is making a huge mistake staying with him.
imagine if they get married and she aged a little and will look like joan rivers instead of jessica.
I don’t feel like Jessica Alba said much there, unless there was more to the quote in real life.
I’m not holding her accountable, but considering they idolize her I think it would be really powerful/influential if Alba directly contacted this girl and said “please, don’t”.
Alba should be contacting the boyfriend, and telling him to get a life.
@nana: Chinese culture is absolutely NOT about virtues at all.
I once worked very closely with a Chinese family business and it was the most working difficult relationship to uphold. It took me a while just to begin to understand them. What is more important than anything to them is to be accepted by everyone else, at the cost of genuineness, honesty, truth…you get the idea. I couldn’t get past the fact that my Chinese boss expected me to lie about absolutely every minute detail of the business to make him and his family look perfect, and he couldn’t get past the fact that I wouldn’t lie for him.
Needless to say, the relationship ended rather quickly.
Dorothy, I looked her up cause I wanted to know and apparently the girl never wanted to look like Demi according to her Facebook.
http://ja-jp.facebook.com/posted.php?id=212958952945&share_id=241441278425&comments=1
Its a January 12th posting a little further down the page, about halfway. I would think they had to get the story from somewhere but I’m not looking further into it. Maybe its a different girl but I don’t know.
@irishserra
i lived in mainland china for more than 10 years and they have very good culture. there are good and bad people and your experience should not account to generalize that chinese do not have virtues at all. that is why i said their culture is SUPPOSED to be about virtues, traditions and all and there are people who live differently from this. it is the same wherever you are. i met awful chinese, same as i met horrible americans and liars from europe. However I meet more nice and genuine people from china who live decent life in honesty and hard work. some of my friends in china find this woman crazy and they just laugh off. so sorry to hear you stayed with the wrong people that you absolutely hate.
Thanks nana. You said it all for me.