He’s a Ken doll guy. In a Ken doll world….
Rodrigo Alves is a 31-year-old flight attendant, living in London.
He has apparently spent more than $265,000 on 30 plastic surgery procedures that have left him looking, well, like a certain plastic gent.
A photo posted by Rodrigo Alves (@rodrigoalvesuk) on Jan 28, 2015 at 10:41am PST
Alves’s procedures have reportedly included liposuction, multiple nose jobs, six-pack implants, calf implants and Botox fillers.
A photo posted by Rodrigo Alves (@rodrigoalvesuk) on Jan 28, 2015 at 9:31pm PST
But for his latest medical operation, Alves flew to Colombia for a risky $75,900 six-in-one super surgery. That South American operation included his fourth nose job, an operation on his eyes, a toe-pinning procedure, even more liposuction and an incision that cut into his gums to make his smile wider.
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See more photos of Alves’ remarkable transformation here (post continues after the gallery).
Alves is currently recovering from a number of procedures and has posted of a blurry picture of his recovery on his Instagram account, saying: “Now I can open my eyes And breath properly my face still looks very swollen and lots of stitches behind my eyes and ears also Inside my mouth And on my nose…. #plasticpositive.
He has told his own story in his Instagram captions – which also illustrate just how deeply body image struggles affect men, as well as women.
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“I used to be fat, misshaped and bullied to death when I was a teen up to the point that I decided to reinvent my self.
“I never set out to look like the #kendoll it was a nick name given by my friends and the press which doesn’t bother me at all. I just wanted to be a better person and I truly am #happy”
Alves told the Daily Mail, “It doesn’t define the man that I am — I’m much more than silicone and cosmetic surgery — but once you get started it’s difficult to stop. I’m quite hard on myself and I’m scared of getting old — that’s the truth.”
We hope that he finds some peace with ageing and a life beyond his appearance soon.
Top Comments
Are these actual photos of him? It looks to me like someone has photoshopped a ginormous head on to an average body and forgot to give him a neck. End result, a little disconcerting.
They're from his instagram account, so he's probably photoshopped the shit out of them before posting. You know you're in trouble when even your photoshopped pics look bad.
Incredibly sad story, really. Clearly a lot of issues going on.
Yeah, he does clearly have a lot of issues and shame on the doctors who performed these surgeries instead of referring him for professional help
This sort of thing will continue to happen. There is one reason, and only one reason, why men have not been objectified, sexualised and only valued for their looks the way women have - men held the money and the power. Now, that is changing. With equality coming closer and women having money and power of their own, we will see women continuing to objectify and sexualise men. When they are able to and are not intimidated or socially or culturally conditioned to pretend they are more subservient and do not have the same sexual desires as men, women think and behave almost exactly like men. Which is not a shock as we are the same species.
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Perhaps when men are degraded, objectified and sexualised to the epidemic levels that women currently are, when more and more men are mutilating themselves like this, starving themselves and becoming mentaly ill because of the impossible challenge of trying to keep up with an ever changing public perception of how they "should" look, the stronger, taller half of the human race will finally realise that treating people like objects and making their intrinsic value about their looks is wrong. Maybe then we will all realise that being decent to one another, not commenting on how strangers look, not valuing a person just for their looks and not objectifying and degrading one another is the right way to behave.
But sadly, things are going to get a lot worse before they get better.
PS, don't pretend you think men means "all men". If you don't degrade and objectify women, as you are aware, this isn't about you.