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Venezuela: Girls Suffering For Beauty


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Venezuelan teenager Meyer takes desperate measures in a bid to win the country's most vaunted beauty pageant.

As she sits down to dinner she reveals a plastic mesh which has been sewn onto her tongue. It makes it painful to eat solids, forcing her to stick to soup and keeping her weight down.

Meyer's family runs a convenience store in the Santa Cruz barrio in Caracas and raised £7,000 to pay for cosmetic surgery to improve her chances of winning.

In the first episode of a three-part series about beauty, sex and money in South America, Billie JD Porter visits 18-year-old Meyer, a contestant in the Miss Venezuela beauty contest, and speaks to her about the sacrifices she and her family are making.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-25962930

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I always had a question why and how so many Venezuelans get world beauty crown, now I got the answer, sure they are all beautiful though :)

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