Woman’s Day (Australia)

No more surgery for human Ken doll

HUMAN KEN DOLL AfterAft customst officersff­ifi did didn’t’ t recognisei hi him from his passport photo, plastic surgery addict Rodrigo Alves now says that’s it!

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Brazilian-born Rodrigo Alves has had 10 nose jobs, pec implants and a butt lift among the 50 surgeries and more than 100 cosmetic procedures he’s undergone to transform himself into a “human Ken doll”. And he’s spent almost $680,000 to get his unique look.

“Male perfection is to me having symmetry,” Rodrigo says. “So a chiselled face, broad shoulders, a lean figure, a prominent jawline, defined abs and a chest in proportion.

“I have had a hair implant, a brow lift, eye lifts, my ears pinned back, cheeks redesigned, my jawline shaped. I’ve had cheek implants twice, the sides of my lips cut out in order to give me a bigger, wider smile. I have had fillers injected into my shoulders, biceps, triceps, my abs – my sixpack is purely plastic surgery. It took me 15 years to become the Rodrigo Alves that you see today.”

But now Rodrigo has sworn off the scalpel after he was almost denied entry into Dubai because he looked so different from the photo in his British passport.

The 34-year-old was also planning to have six ribs removed to get a smaller waist but will rethink it after this latest mix-up.

“This experience has made me think a lot and made me analyse myself and the decisions I’ve made,” he says. “The kind of changes I’ll be undergoing from now on won’t be plastic surgery as such, but rather procedures that focus on my bones and structure. So from now on it will be constant maintenanc­e.”

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