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Venezuela's Inflated Vision of Beauty

May 18, 2018

In Venezuela, women are confronted with a culture of increasingly enhanced physiques fueled by beauty pageants and plastic surgery. The culture makes it so women feel pressured to be beautiful at any cost. For many in Venezuela, beauty means perfection, and despite economic struggles the country faces, women of all social classes seek out plastic surgery. 

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