From the first photo, they are before surgery, after surgery, 3 weeks later, and 3 months later ^^
My mom was seriously obsessed with looks. She was ruthless even with her own daughter.
When I was in high school, my dream was to become an announcer, but my mom immediately opposed it.
It wasn't like I was bad at studying, and I wasn't extremely overweight either,
but my mom said, "Do you have the face to be an announcer?" and "To be an announcer, you need to be at least 168 cm tall."
When she came at me like that,
I got really mad too. Fine, then I'll become a comedian.
This time she showed me SNL Korea on her smartphone and said that even comedians are pretty these days,
basically salting the wound of my angry heart.
I glared at her once like, fine, let's go all the way, who do you think I take after?
At that moment my mom happened to be chopping green onions, and she started chopping them really hard.
That was when "real shrapnel" started flying, and the scene felt quite eerie.
It meant that if I kept lingering beside her or ran my mouth a few more words,
my precious allowance could disappear just like last time.
Anyway, from my point of view, before I even got near the threshold of becoming an announcer, I felt like I had already been cut for being unqualified..
Honestly, I didn't apply to be an announcer because I thought I was pretty.
It was simply because I liked people whose purpose was to deliver information clearly.
That sense of mission still has not changed, though even if I can't become an announcer
and show my face on camera while delivering information,
if someone leaves a malicious comment on this post saying my before face was ugly,
I am still ready to deliver "information" about that commenter's parents haha.
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I was so angry that the people who clipped my wings were none other than my own parents,
but the more deeply I thought about it, the more shabby my looks felt,
so I couldn't insist on my goal either ㅠ
So I studied computerized accounting at a junior college and, just as my parents wanted,
worked an ordinary office job and earned a modest salary,
living a life that looked perfectly acceptable to other people.
Then one day, when I saw my bare face reflected in the mirror, only an ugly version of me was left haha..
I even looked older..
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My biggest complex in particular was my face shape.
I have some fat on my face, so my V-line didn't show and it looked round, which I hated.
As for my nose, it looked okay from the front, but from the side,
it was too low and had no dimension.
My eyes looked small and stuffy too. At first I had non-incision stitches done, but they came undone, then came undone again..
When I went to the clinic and told them all of this, they said honestly it would take a bit of work,
but if surgery complemented my face, I would probably become much prettier, and they said it with some confidence?
I had thread lifting, rhinoplasty, and ptosis correction done with two-week intervals between each.
At first I didn't realize it, but after 2 to 3 weeks,
the swelling went down a lot and my look changed into a puppy-like face lol.
The changed look felt really awkward too,
but after a few days, I naturally came to accept even this appearance as me.
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Around this time, I started meeting acquaintances again after a while,
and people's reactions were half envy and half hope, I guess..???
I was living proof of, "Oh, you really can get that pretty through plastic surgery" lol.
When women see another woman become prettier, they want to try it too, right?
Maybe that's why all my friends around me got the clinic information from me at least once.. lol
At first I wondered whether I should keep it secret and not tell them,
but once I told my closest friend,
I thought, is this really such a big secret? So from then on I just shared it openly lol.
Honestly, being called a natural beauty, something I have never heard in my life, is out the window,
but I think being a "surgical beauty" is not bad compared with just being a "natural person" lol.
I asked a male friend,
"Do you like natural beauties or surgical beauties?"
"Of course natural beauties."
"You don't know what you're talking about. Natural beauties are only pretty until their 30s or 40s,
but surgical beauties are pretty forever. Because people age, but plastic doesn't."
Now I am living a new life.
Thank you, Director at Hyundai Aesthetic Surgery.^^