{"id":22064,"date":"2014-06-02T15:09:21","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T15:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=22064"},"modified":"2014-06-02T17:24:42","modified_gmt":"2014-06-02T17:24:42","slug":"man-undergoes-10-rounds-of-surgery-to-look-more-asian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=22064","title":{"rendered":"Man undergoes 10 rounds of surgery to look &#8216;more Asian&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A white Brazilian man with blonde hair and blue eyes has taken the extraordinary step of undergoing surgery to look like an Asian.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Xiahn, 25, has a love for &#8216;K-pop&#8217; and Korean dramas and became obsessed with looking like the locals during his time as an exchange student in the country.<\/p>\n<p>A year at Dongseo University in South Korea gave him the desire to have &#8216;slanted eyes&#8217; and dark hair.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I put my fingers inside the eye and pulled. That was the way I wanted to have my eyes,&#8217; he told Brazilian newspaper Zero Hora.<\/p>\n<p>Xiahn underwent more than 10 operations to get the desired look, spending more than $3000 to look remarkably like a natural-born Asian man.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I guess now yes I&#8217;m there, I just need to wait for the swelling (to go down) for the end result,&#8217; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I was not afraid that something would go wrong, but I was afraid to stay with scarring in the eye and so I did look plastic, but everything worked out. My vision is perfect.<\/p>\n<p>Originally named Max, the only thing hinting at Xiahn&#8217;s former appearance is the shape of his nose.<\/p>\n<p>Along with surgery to change the shape of his eyes, Xiahn wears dark eye contacts and dyes his hair black.<\/p>\n<p>Hitting out at criticism, Xiahn said on his Facebook account: &#8216;Regardless of religion that the person is, whether or not you believe in past lives, you have only this life, you have to be who you want to be.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The cultural chameleon has been &#8216;liked&#8217; thousands of times on Facebook and said he has been fascinated by life in South Korea since he was 19.<\/p>\n<p>He found surgeons in Brazil to carry out the amazing series of surgeries and said while his father supported his choices, his mother was less understanding.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;For me it is normal to change appearance,&#8217; he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0Daily Mail<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A white Brazilian man with blonde hair and blue eyes has taken the extraordinary step of undergoing surgery to look like an Asian. Xiahn, 25, has a love for &#8216;K-pop&#8217; and Korean dramas and became obsessed with looking like the locals during his time as an exchange student in the country. A year at Dongseo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":22065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[7],"class_list":["post-22064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-togbe-afede-xiv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}