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Brazil Carnival Star Eyes Surgery Record

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) — Brazilian model Angela Bismarchi will dance nearly nude ahead of a 300-person drum corps in next month’s Carnival parade, hoping her sculpted beauty as a “percussion queen” will lead her samba group to the championship.

But she has another goal in mind as well.

In preparation for Rio’s five-day Carnival blowout in February, she’s having her 42nd plastic surgery — closing in on the Guinness World Record of 47 surgical procedures held by 52-year-old American Cindy Jackson, who calls herself a “Living Doll” and now promotes her own skincare line.

“I always was vain,” Bismarchi, 36, acknowledges at the medical clinic near Rio where her plastic surgeon husband has operated on her 10 times. “And for carnival, you have to feel especially pretty.”

Just days before Brazil’s Feb. 2-6 carnival begins, Bismarchi will have nylon wires implanted in her eyes to give them an Asian slant, in line with this year’s theme of her samba group, Porto da Pedra: the centennial of Japanese immigration to Brazil.

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It’s clear to me that people who have a deep sense of insecurity try to medicate it with all sorts of things – drugs, alcohol, compulsive shopping, plastic surgery…  However, whereas in most cases people can satisfy these addictions on their own, in the case of plastic surgery they need an enabler – the surgeon.  Doesn’t a doctor have a responsibility to recommend therapy in a case like this rather than inserting wire in someone’s eyelids?  I think so.

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