15-year-old Li Enxi has taken over the Chinese internet today in a way that believers in the aphorism "any publicity is good publicity" would heartily applaud.
The not-even-remotely-legal Weibo celebrity from Zhengzhou, Henan Province is the rather unsettling result of "full-body plastic surgery," and seems to spend her days uploading a steady stream of "sexy" photos and arguing with netizens, who have slammed her as a "plastic surgery failure" and an "ugly girl made even uglier with makeup" with a "pig's nose."
Web users on the popular microblogging platform have also taken to calling her "snake spirit," an evil serpent in Chinese mythology capable of transforming into a beautiful woman with eerily white skin.
As a point of reference, this is allegedly what Li looked like before her surgery:
In a grim reflection of the values of modern society, Li bit back by asking commenters, "How many of the many you had people giving you perfume and driving you around in expensive cars when you were 15? Was there any market for you when you were 15? If not then shut up, you're not qualified to insult me. You have to keep up with the times in today's society, you can't let yourself lose at the starting line."
Her critics, presumably, have been put soundly in their places.
"Loosing at the starting line" is a concept that Chinese parents often use to justify the immense pressure they put on their kids to attend tutorial classes let into the night, learn an instrument or foreign language or anything that could conceivably put them a step ahead of the competition - i.e. other kids - in a fiercely competitive and unfeeling society.
Li's parents, if her story is true, are presumably diehard believers in the notion...
[Images via Sina, Oriental Daily]
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