Bismarchi prepares for surgery
Posted on 01/28/2008 4:19:30 AM PST by Stoat
Angela Bismarchi will lead her samba group at next month's Rio Carnival and is having the procedure to celebrate 100 years of Japanese immigration to Brazil.
It will be the 42nd time she has had plastic surgery and she is closing in on the world record of 47 held by American Cindy Jackson.
Bismarchi will dance ahead of a drum group of 300 people, hoping her sculpted beauty as a "percussion queen" will lead her samba team to winning the championship.
The 36-year-old, whose passion for plastic surgery has made her a celebrity in Brazil, said: "I always was vain. And for carnival, you have to feel especially pretty."
Bismarchi, who is 6ft tall and promotes a lingerie collection, is married to a plastic surgeon - he has operated on her 10 times.
She first made the headlines in 2000, when police tried to arrest her after she paraded partly nude with the Brazilian flag painted on her body.
"I became famous all over. The power of carnival is amazing," she said.
Two years later, she paraded with the face of President Lula da Silva painted across her exposed body.
Officers released her after she explained that it was a gesture to Mr Silva's anti-hunger plan.
Bismarchi had her first cosmetic surgery in 1992 after her daughter was born. She was just 21 and had her breasts lifted.
She liked the result and became so fascinated with cosmetic surgery that her next two husbands were plastic surgeons.
This time, the theme of her samba group, Porto da Pedra, is 100 years of Japanese immigration to Brazil.
It’s an addiction.
Agreed. What this lady needs is not a plastic sturgeon, but a Priest.
She's a sad and extreme example of so much that's wrong these days.
Is Cindy Jackson the woman who has had multiple surgeries to make herself look like a cat?
I think this has gone beyond surgery to mutilation.
I hate using Wikipedia, but according to them she's not.
Cindy Jackson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I'm wondering if you might be thinking of a guy that I read about once who had a lot of surgical and dental work done in order to make himself look like a panther, I think? I seem to recall that he is an American Indian and did it for some sort of inner spiritual journey. He has impressive fangs and everything.....and is absolutely frightening to look at and can barely chew his food.
I've forgotten his name.....remembering that sort of thing isn't usually a front-burner item for me :-)
Agreed. My personal (and violently politically-incorrect) view on this is that plastic surgery procedures should be limited to burn and accident victims and those who are profoundly disfigured at birth to the point of it completely interfering with their quality of life.
I like to trust God's design :-)
Me either, I just remember seeing this freak woman who thought she looked like a cat. The things people will do to get themselves noticed are unbelievable.
I remember seeing that, too. I think there was a FR thread about her.
I could swear that I read somewhere that Oriental women are having surgery to make their eyes more western. It was a long time ago and I don’t recall where I read it. I guess nobody is happy with the way they look.
Jackson looks pretty good considering the trauma her body has been subjected to.
I wonder how she looks without make-up.
I wonder if she got people to like her more.
Agreed. Her pictures look as though they've been airbrushed when they haven't, such is her unnatural level of perfection.
I wonder how she looks without make-up.
No, I won't insert the obligatory picture of Helen Thomas or Nancy Pelosi in here, I have no desire to subject you to such hideousness first thing in the morning :-)
I wonder if she got people to like her more.
She probably has thousands of completely superficial and worthless celebrity "friends", none of whom she would have met if she hadn't had 47 cosmetic surgery procedures.
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