It doesn't get more bizarre than this - well maybe in China it might, but I thought this story was worth noting on many levels.
According to the Shanghai Daily, it seems a man in North China who married a woman because of her looks (he claims she was the most beautiful woman he had ever seen) filed for divorce after he found out that his beautiful wife was actually very ugly and had undergone extensive plastic surgery to change her looks before he met her. The kicker here is the court granted him the divorce.
How you say did he discover this ghastly subterfuge? The truth came out according to the man after his wife gave birth to a daughter who the man described as "Extremely ugly" (am sure he will make a great father).
It was only after accusing his wife of adultry because what other reason would account for her having such an ugly child that the truth came out. His wife had spent close to $100,000.00 US (I guess her parents were not struggling farmers) on plastic surgery to improve her looks.
The man was so outraged he filed for divorce seeking $120,000.00 US in compensation for mental cruelty claiming the woman lured him into the marriage under false pretenses and if you can believe it, the court accepted his claim.
So to all our friends - be forewarned - if you've had a lift, nose job, or breast augmentation and you plan on marrying a Chinese man, you'd better fess up before the marriage or you could get in trouble. As far as the ugly child goes - I guess based on the brain capacity of both parents, she'll probably have plastic surgery before she's 10. And if you are a plastic surgeon, China is the place to be - I don't think this case is unique. Last week I read a similar story of a Chinese woman who had extensive plastic surgery to try and look like Jennifer Lopez - In her case it all failed and she`s left looking pretty weird and scary.
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