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Fakes.(femenine beauty and plastic surgeries)
Byline: SARAH VAN BOVEN
T. S. Eliot's declaration that "humankind cannot bear much reality" seems especially true about what we see in the mirror. Padding, paint, choppersthere isn't much we haven't tried to make our looks more supernatural. A peek at the very real numbers behind all this deception.
93: Percentage of women in a 2006 survey who said it was OK to use "asset enhancers" such as padding or surgery to change their looks.
71: Percentage of men who agreed.
6: Percentage of men who admitted to wearing body-slimming underwear.
$150 million: Total sales of "Spanx" shaping garments in 2006.
1976: Year Ruth Handler, the creator of Barbie, started a company to make breast prostheses, after she had a mastectomy and found the selection lacking.
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