"""BEIJING, 29.July 2004 : Yang Yuan, 19, an aspiring model who made headlines in May when she sued the organizer of a beauty pageant, walks in a street outside the hospital where she went under the knife in Beijing, July 29, 2004, in China. ..Yang Yuan says she wanted to improve her career chances and therefore improved her looks artificially.When the organizer of the beauty contest found out, he banned her from competing and Yang's """"nightmare"""" started. Yang has spent a fortune to pay her team of lawyers, organize press conferences to fight for her rights...These days, she's been obliged to give up her apartment as she slowly runs out of money and model jobs are not coming .In order to make a living, Yang agreed to act as an """"ambassador"""" for the hospital where she had her plastic surgery...Plastic surgery gradually is becoming big business in China's capital.  Since this summer , hospitals  have been flooded with teenage patients ever since offers """"special summer reductions"""" for students were made..  ..Whereas in Mao Zedong's China, even pigtails were seen as a sign of vanity (and had to be cut off) , nowadays, urban Chinese women seek about every means in order to distinguish themselves from the masses.  This year Beijing will organize the worl'd first beauty pageant for women had had plastic surgery..."""
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