14 DAY TRIAL // At 53, Hong Kong-born Chow Yun-Fat still ranks among the best looking men in Hollywood. However, there is a secret to his charm and appeal with the ladies, and he is now more than willing to talk about it, unlike other stars who would deny everything within an inch of their life. Chow Yun-Fat has had plastic surgery on his eyelids, as he himself has admitted during a recent press conference.
Whereas women in Hollywood are extremely coy about speaking on topics such as how they maintain their beauty, let alone openly admitting to having had work done, the “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” star is not at all ashamed to have had plastic surgery on his face. Speaking at a press conference in South Korea on the occasion of the launch of “Dragonball: Evolution,” Chow Yun-Fat has come clean about his past visits to the doctor’s.
“As I grew older, my eyelids began to droop. I began going for cosmetic surgery in Hong Kong when I was filming ‘The God Of Gamblers’ in 1989.” the 53-year-old actor says. Far from being ashamed of this, or trying to hide it in any way, the actor has even joked with the media representatives present, adding, “If you go to Hong Kong for cosmetic surgery, I can introduce you to the doctor. He’s cheap and good.”
Another celebrity to have recently made the headlines about plastic surgery is Tameka Foster, Usher’s wife. She flew to Brazil for a tummy tuck but, unfortunately, in her case, something went terribly bad even before she got to go under the knife. According to reports in the media, Tameka went into cardiac and respiratory arrest while she was anesthetized, and the surgery never went through as scheduled.
While she is now in stable condition and has already left the hospital to return to the US, it is believed that the surgery scare was brought about by her lying to the doctors about the time passed since she had a baby. “After a pregnancy, the abdomen muscle is violently stretched, becomes flaccid and swells. The patient needs six to eight months to return to normal and only then can undergo surgery.” President of the Brazilian Society of Plastic Surgery, Jose Tariki, pinpointed for the media, hinting that Tameka lied about this, as she had only had a baby two months before.