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South China Morning Post
3 days ago
- Business
- South China Morning Post
Chinese cashier steals US$2.4 million from firm to fund cosmetic surgery, lavish lifestyle
A woman in China who earned a modest 8,000 yuan (US$1,100) a month embezzled nearly 17 million yuan (US$2.4 million) to pay for a lavish lifestyle and undergo a range of cosmetic surgeries. The image-changing sessions took place four times a year over a six-year period and cost 300,000 yuan (US$42,000) each time. She also cultivated a wealthy image on social media, spending about two million yuan (US$278,000) a year on luxury goods. These included diamond bracelets worth more than 100,000 yuan and limited-edition crocodile skin handbags. She also gambled in Macau casinos. Wang's high-rolling, luxurious lifestyle came to a halt when the tax authorities made an unannounced visit to her company. Photo: Weibo The 41-year-old, who used the pseudonym Wang Jing, worked as a cashier for a flower and gardening services company in Shanghai that was founded by a person surnamed Xu in 2018.
The Sun
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Sun
Moment Olivia Attwood gasps ‘oh my god' as Price Of Perfection star reveals before and after pics after £250k makeover
OLIVIA Attwood audibly gasps and says 'oh my god' on her TV show, as a Price of Perfection star reveals their incredible before and after surgery pics. The 34-year-old TV host is introduced to Alicia in the programme, who has spent over £250,000 on cosmetic surgery. 4 4 4 Going into her home, Olivia and Alicia sit down on the sofa, during which Alicia shows photos of herself 'looking natural' before she'd had anything done. She gets out her photo album and Olivia has a flick through, audibly gasping as she sees photos of Alicia before surgery. 'Oh my God,' Olivia says, while staring at the photos. 'That was in 2016,' Alicia explains, going on to tell her a bit about her surgery journey. She says: 'I think I was probably 18 at that time, and completely natural.' Olivia questions: 'Do you think this girl here had any idea how your life would be and how you'd look?' She responds: 'No, to people who really knew me back then and knew what I was like, it wouldn't be a big shock. 'I've always sort of been quite outgoing and confident and sexual, and I just needed to find my niche.' She spoke about having filler and £650 implants, as well as a nose job. Watch as original The Traitors star undergoes facelift for Olivia Attwood's ITV show after TV fame Olivia asks if there are things she's gone without because she had plastic surgery, but Alicia says there isn't anything she hasn't been able to do because of it. 'I choose my health,' she said, adding: 'I spend a lot of money on the stuff I put into my body and food and that kind of thing, and I spend a lot of money getting the right kind of filler and the best products.' She told Olivia she has such a fun life, when asked by the Love Island star if she'll ever want to be the girl she once was again, before surgery. Whether it's Botox, a boob job or even filler, Olivia Attwood herself isn't shy about admitting she has tried and tested them. The star recently revealed that she spends 'a couple of grand a month' on maintaining her image. Her budget covers skincare, vitamins, gym memberships, and all of her aesthetic procedures. She says: 'It's mental but that's the tax I pay for the life I've put myself into.' Olivia, who first landed a job modelling before becoming a grid girl and later appearing on Love Island in 2017, explained that taking care of her appearance is part of her job. 'My appearance wasn't just social currency; it was economic currency for me,' she told You Magazine. The Loose Women regular and host of her own podcast, Olivia Attwood's So Wrong It's Right, also admitted that she gets Botox and filler every two to three months. 4
Daily Mail
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
Olivia Attwood gasps in shock as woman who spent £250k on plastic surgery reveals what she looked like BEFORE extreme human Barbie transformation
Olivia Attwood gasped in shock as a woman who spent £250,000 on plastic surgery revealed what she looked like before her extreme human Barbie transformation. The TV personality and former Love Island contestant, 34, returned last month to host the second series of her ITV documentary Olivia Attwood: The Price of Perfection. Over the six episodes, the Loose Women panellist meets with patients and doctors to investigate the changing world of science, social media and cosmetic surgery. In each 45-minute episode, she explores a different theme: weight loss, smiles, skin, mummy makeovers, men and people with more than £100,000 total spends. Olivia joins women before, after and during their procedures - and even goes under the knife herself to try out some of the wackiest treatments. One particularly shocking moment sees her meet with a woman named Alicia, who has spent an eye-watering more than £250,000 on cosmetic surgery. The TV personality and former Love Island contestant, 34, returned last month to host the second series of her ITV documentary Olivia Attwood: The Price of Perfection (pictured) It has left her with large lips and breasts, a striking look alongside her incredibly long platinum blonde hair and Barbie pink outfit with long nails and large hoop earrings. Olivia looks through a scrapbook of old photos of Alicia, who points out some snaps of her taken when she was around 18 years old, in 2016. Her look nearly ten years ago, before all the procedures, is completely unrecognisable compared to how she looks now. Though her hair was still the same bright blonde shade, she was seen in the pictures wearing much more lowkey clothes than her habitual all-pink look now. Alicia laughs nervously as Olivia gasps, 'Oh. My. God.' The host asks: 'Do you think this girl had any idea how your life would be and how you'd look?' Alicia replies: 'No! To people who really knew me back then, knew what I was like, it wouldn't be a big shock because I've always sort of been quite outgoing and confident and sexual and stuff like that. 'I just needed to find my niche, you know?' As Olivia flips through more pages of the scrapbook, Alicia points out more images at various stages of her transformation. The procedures she has had include breast implants, lip filler and a rhinoplasty. Olivia asks if Alicia has ever gone without other things in her life, so as to be able to spend more money on surgery. 'There's never been anything I didn't do just because I had my plastic surgery', she replies. 'I choose my health and my looks over everything so I spend a lot of money on the stuff I put into my body such as food and that kind of thing. 'And I spend a lot of money on getting the right kind of filler, the best products.' The presenter asks if she thinks she will ever wake up, wanting to look how she used to look - and Alicia is sure about her answer: 'No, this is so much fun! 'I just have such a fun life and I would never want it to change.' The former TOWIE star has previously warned of a 'national issue' when it comes to injectable cosmetic procedures - and the 'dystopian' future of anti-ageing. In an interview with MailOnline last month, Olivia said: 'There are a lot of people injecting a lot of stuff into themselves and when you actually ask the questions about what's in them, they don't have the answer. 'That highlights a national issue which is really important we put a light on. 'At worst, these things are dangerous and at best, it's salt and water that you're injecting and you're basically just washing your money down the drain. 'Either way, people need to be informed about what they are putting in their bodies.' She was speaking in reference to Lemon Bottle Fat Dissolving - an injectable cosmetic treatment which allegedly combines Vitamin B2 and other natural ingredients to accelerate the metabolism of fat cells. The process promises 'minimal swelling and minimal pain' and can cost up to £250 at a clinic. But when asked by Olivia in her ITV documentary, several professionals did not truly know what was in bottles. She said: 'It was a double-edged sword because I hated the fact [the clinician] couldn't answer the questions because I'm like, "We have to tell this story now", but obviously, it didn't look great.' When asked about Kris Jenner's alleged facelift, which has left fans reeling at her new look, Olivia said: 'I mean, she looks fantastic, it's unbelievable. 'Work is becoming so sophisticated now, so undetectable. 'There are so many things that are happening on the surgery table like facelifts, fat grafting, and stem cells that are literally turning back the clock. 'It's dystopian, it's very exciting to watch the industry develop at such a fast rate and there's no limits to what we'll see in the next ten years in terms of scientific development of anti-ageing procedures.' Olivia is open about her personal cosmetic surgeries, which include veneers, lip filler and Botox. She revealed she does not regret any apart from her first boob job, admitting: 'Went too far, I went too big, also with my lips.' The TV personality has also previously claimed her husband Bradley Dack, 30, would never have dated her before she had a boob job and lip filler. When Olivia (pictured on Loose Women earlier this month) asked Bradley if he would have been keen to date her before her boob job, he replied, 'No', before she pushed him further and he confirmed, 'No' When Olivia asked Bradley if he would have been keen to date her before her boob job, he replied, 'No', before she pushed him further and he confirmed, 'No'. Rather than having an argument over Bradley's confession, Olivia insists that she got a 'big kick' out of him being that upfront because she believes most men are initially drawn to looks over personality. She said: 'I got a big kick out of him being that honest... 'Even though Brad has been a footballer for many years, and he's done my show, he's not PR trained so he is quite off the cuff sometimes... I thought it was cool. 'He's not saying that he would never have loved me but what turned his head the first night we met was the way I looked, some of that is what I was born with and some of it, the blonde hair and my lips, is stuff I wasn't born with. 'As we know, typically, stereotyping here, men are image-based and are drawn to looks, more so than women... 'If I see a really handsome man, I think, "Would he be boring?", but men are turned on by that instant look, it's interesting that Brad was truthful about that. 'We are very secure, he knows me, I am very secure in our relationship. We talk honestly.'
CTV News
11-07-2025
- Health
- CTV News
Quebec woman's botched breast lift in Colombia highlights dangers of cosmetic surgery tourism
Warning: this article contains graphic images. A Quebec woman is warning against cosmetic surgery tourism after she went to Colombia for a breast lift because it was cheaper. She now calls it the worst decision of her life. Five years ago, Alexandra Denis-Bérubé found out she had a benign tumour in one of her breasts, and she was put on a wait list for surgery that would have taken four to five years. She decided to try the private system and found out the cost for removing the tumour, plus a lift, was $16,000. A friend then recommended she consider getting the procedure done in Colombia. 'When you're at the grocery store and you have to have two different apples that look the same, you will choose automatically the cheaper one, so this is why I took this decision,' she said. The surgery in Colombia costs just $3,000, but she quickly found out she wasn't comparing apples to apples. botched boob job Denis-Bérubé said her body rejected non-dissolving stitches. (Submitted by Alexandra Denis-Bérubé) 'When I arrived in Quebec, all the complications arrived at the same time,' said Denis-Bérubé. The surgeon, it turns out, used non-dissolving stitches, which her body began rejecting. One by one, the stitches started to come out through her now-reopened wounds. 'All of my scars are open, so it took five months to close them,' said Denis-Bérubé. At the same time, she was dealing with complications from a second procedure called a Brazilian butt lift, or BBL. An infection caused serious bruising on her hips and stomach. 'I would say 90 per cent — nine-zero — of our patients that we see complications of plastic surgery come from abroad,' said plastic surgeon Dr. Hani Sinno. BBL bruising Alexandra Denis-Bérubé said her Brazilian butt lift also came with complications. (Submitted by Alexandra Denis-Bérubé) Sinno is not involved in Denis-Bérubé's case, but said the cosmetic tourism trend has taken off on social media and he's seen an increase in the number of hospitalizations due to complications. 'This doesn't mean that complications don't occur here in Canada, in Montreal,' said Sinno. 'What it does mean is that their patients don't have adequate follow-up, and the type of complications that they're getting is not the things that we do see here in Canada.' Denis-Bérubé said her decision to try to save money ended up costing her more, both in physical and psychological suffering. 'I deal with it,' she said. 'I just really want to tell my story to avoid some woman to have the same pain.' Since her trip to Colombia, she has had to undergo two more surgeries and still has at least one more to come. She estimates that the total cost has risen to more than $40,000. 'It's probably the big the biggest mistake I've done in my life really,' she said.
