A tragedy caused by a blind desire for beauty, a warning message raised by Lee Mi-young’s confession of ‘industrial filler’ > News

The core of actress Lee Mi-young’s confession is the shocking fact that lip surgery, which she started with a light heart when she was in her 30s, was actually an illegal act of injecting ‘industrial substances.’ At the time, she blindly trusted someone else's introduction as an expert from the United States, and was deceived by the coaxing claim that it would naturally be released from the body over time. But the substance never left her body, and instead became the seed of tragedy that distorted her lip tissue and deformed her face. As time passed, the lips that the needle had touched suffered serious deformation, including losing their original position and turning inside out. This went beyond a simple change in appearance and became a serious crisis that threatened her identity and professional vitality.

The external transformation immediately led her to encounter harsh social standards, which fatally hurt her as an actress. It was an unbearable pain for her to have an actor who was supposed to play a role in a work end up in the public spotlight due to an unintentional lip deformity. In particular, viewers' indiscriminate malicious comments shattered her self-esteem, and the controversy over her appearance ultimately led to her being deprived of opportunities to appear, creating a huge gap in her career as an actress. The public only judged her appearance without knowing the background of the procedure or the inner pain she was going through, and this stigma became the biggest barrier to her comeback as an actress.

Lee Mi-young, who belatedly realized the seriousness of the situation, had to make the painful choice of two removal surgeries to regain her original appearance. According to experts, the lip is an area with very dense blood vessels and delicate tissue, so surgery to remove an already injected foreign body is a much more complicated and risky process than the initial procedure. In particular, restoring already deformed tissues to normal is so difficult that it is difficult to expect perfection, and there is a risk of damaging even normal tissues. The physical pain and psychological pressure that Lee Mi-young must have experienced during the surgery process must have been indescribable, and the time of suffering she had to endure to return to her current form is by no means light.

This incident goes beyond just one individual's misfortune, and sends a strong warning to modern society where cosmetic procedures have become a daily routine. Liquid silicone that is not for medical use or unidentified foreign substances cause inflammation and necrosis in the body, and the damage becomes an indelible scar that follows you for the rest of your life. As in the case of Lee Mi-young, not only in the past when information was lacking, but even today, when information is overflowing, there are still many people who cross an irreversible river while pursuing ‘cheap and easy’ procedures. The reason why she made such a courageous confession by revealing her secrets through broadcasting may be because she desperately hopes that there will be no more victims like her.