{"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\/2014\/06\/man-undergoes-10-rounds-of-surgery-to-look-more-asian\/","title":{"rendered":"Man undergoes 10 rounds of surgery to look ‘more Asian’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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
Xiahn, 25, has a love for ‘K-pop’ and Korean dramas and became obsessed with looking like the locals during his time as an exchange student in the country.<\/p>\n
A year at Dongseo University in South Korea gave him the desire to have ‘slanted eyes’ and dark hair.<\/p>\n
‘I put my fingers inside the eye and pulled. That was the way I wanted to have my eyes,’ he told Brazilian newspaper Zero Hora.<\/p>\n
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
‘I guess now yes I’m there, I just need to wait for the swelling (to go down) for the end result,’ he said.<\/p>\n
‘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
Originally named Max, the only thing hinting at Xiahn’s former appearance is the shape of his nose.<\/p>\n
Along with surgery to change the shape of his eyes, Xiahn wears dark eye contacts and dyes his hair black.<\/p>\n
Hitting out at criticism, Xiahn said on his Facebook account: ‘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.’<\/p>\n
The cultural chameleon has been ‘liked’ thousands of times on Facebook and said he has been fascinated by life in South Korea since he was 19.<\/p>\n
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
‘For me it is normal to change appearance,’ he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Source:\u00a0Daily Mail<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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 ‘K-pop’ 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":22065,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[7],"yoast_head":"\n