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The Girls From Ipanema

South of the equator, asses are worshipped, plastic surgery is a rite

of passage, and beauty is seen as a gift to society. Why do

the sexiest creatures on the planet live in Brazil? By Judy Bachrach

Of all the injustices women must put up with, one of the worst is that the majority of us are not born Bra-zilian. This is quite a dilemmaNand not because everyone there is a ringer for Gisele, a beauty around whom a certain degree of controversy swirls (amazing, but the local thinking is sheOs too Nordic and too slender). Besides, a number of Brazilian women, blonde or otherwise, consider themselves supermodel-

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