ฝึกพูดภาษาอังกฤษด้วยเทคนิค Shadowing จากวิดีโอ: China's Disturbing "Frozen Face" Girl

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When you were a child, you were probably going outside playing with your friends or doing your homework, and the only thing you had to worry about is if your crush liked you back.
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They probably didn't.
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But imagine if there was one kid in your class who would spend all her time outside of school getting plastic surgery.
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Today, I want to tell you a jaw-dropping story of a girl who changed her entire face during childhood.
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A 13-year-old girl who was bullied in school and thought the only way to overcome this was to get plastic surgery.
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And when she did, people started treating her better.
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So she continued to get more and more.
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From her face to her head, you name it, she's done it.
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And all of this eventually led to her suffering from memory loss.
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Meet Zhou Chuna, aka Zoe, the youngest person in China to ever get plastic surgery.
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Now Zoe was born into a wealthy family in Shanghai, meaning money wasn't something she had to think about.
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No stress about paying the bills or feeding the family, so logically you'd think that her childhood would be pretty smooth.
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But when she was around 13, her parents sent her to a top international school, and that's where the canon event begins.
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Imagine walking into a school where everyone is stylish, trendy, and everyone is probably a mini influencer.
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And taking a look at Zoe on the other hand, she had single eyelids, a flatter nose, and darker skin compared to her classmates.
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Now, none of these are problems, okay?
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But her classmates, they started calling her names, Things like dark skin girl squinty eyed girl The boys in her class would literally give her the worst
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and dirtiest tasks during cleanup Pretty much they're treating her like she's at the bottom of their social hierarchy
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And because of
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that this is the moment where she begins to feel Maybe the problem is my face
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So she goes home and tells her parents what's happening
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And this is the part where the parents should step in
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and say Those kids are wrong you're fine you don't need to change
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But nah her mom looked at her and said It's one thing that your grades are bad in school
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But you also don't look good either compared to your classmates.
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So what good are you anyway?
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Now That's not just asian parenting.
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You're just bullying your child.
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So now in her mind, it's not people are being mean It's they're right
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So since then she starts fantasizing about waking up one day
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with a completely new face a new identity A whole new life having fair skin and perfect features,
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but she wasn't just thinking about it she was planning it.
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So at 13, she asked her parents for plastic surgery and they say no, which finally a normal response,
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but Zoe is too deep in it at this point.
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She threatened to quit school if they didn't let her get surgery.
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If you don't let me do this, I'm going to drop out.
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And when that doesn't work, she goes full McLovin mode and borrows IDs from adults to try to get procedures done.
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Her father obviously tries to stop her saying that she's too young and, you know, you should wait until you're 18.
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So she threatens to cut off their father-daughter relationship.
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And at that point, the pressure really got to them.
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Her parents fold and her mom's like, which part do you want to get done?
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I'll take you to the hospital.
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Enter the first surgery, the moment she says goodbye to herself.
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At 13 years old, Zoe undergoes her first procedure, the double eyelid surgery.
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Her eyes now look bigger, more defined, and more in line of what she calls beautiful in her environment.
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So she goes back to school and suddenly the boys who were bullying her, that they're nice and friendly now.
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Y'all really some fake bitch.
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So now she sees the direct proof that people treat you better when you look better.
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And the mindset inevitably switches to if one surgery did this what happens
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if i do more so what's the next move at this point she's around 14 years old
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and she looks at her nose and goes yeah this doesn't match my new eyes
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and just like that rhinoplasty no hesitation
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and over the next two years she got eight surgeries on her eyes and six surgeries on her nose.
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Okay.
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Eight times on your eyes.
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And it shows.
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Zoe, it's not looking too good.
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What's really disturbing about this is that she starts looking older
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and older the more procedures she gets because if you look at these photos, she doesn't even look like she's in her teens anymore.
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If anyone still thinks I looked good as a child, they might be blind.
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I suggest they get their eyes checked.
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So Zoe's second home is basically the cosmetic clinic now
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and she even says that she's more familiar with that than her own house.
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And I'm not even exaggerating when I'm saying this started to become her entire routine because every day after school, her full-time job was to just modify her face to her liking.
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She started injecting hyaluronic acid to raise her nose bridge and Botox to slim down her face.
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And then she leveled up into the high-risk procedures like cheekbone shaving
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and the high cranial top surgery to put fillings in your head.
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And keep in mind, she's still growing.
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Her bones aren't even fully developed yet, and she's already like, yeah, let's shave some of that off.
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And here's a sneak peek of like a whole list of procedures that she's had so far.
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Now, one of the bigger procedures involved her going into a 10-hour full-face plastic surgery room.
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And during this surgery, they used so much anesthesia to the point where after it was done, her mom couldn't even wake her up.
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She had no response, no reaction, and she only opened her eyes eight hours after.
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Of course, her mom was terrified, but Zoe didn't care.
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The first thing she did when she woke up was grab a mirror to see if she looked prettier, and apparently her face wasn't enough.
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So she expanded to doing liposuction, chest augmentation, rib removals, all while she's still a teenager.
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What should I do, babies?
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I've messed up again.
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Because I overdid it, one side of my face is now twitching.
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I can only move half of my face to talk.
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My face is crooked, my nose is crooked, and my implants are misaligned.
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I am a paralyzed child.
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So at this point, she's 16 years old.
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And in these past two years, she had overgone 380 surgeries.
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She even had over 20 cantoplasties, which are eye corner surgeries to make your eyes bigger.
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I mean, it looks like her eyes can see into the future.
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And when people asked her if she regrets anything, she said, the only thing I regret is not starting sooner.
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Honestly, I'm starting to like her more and more.
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And because she was from a wealthy family, she had the funds to just keep on going.
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And at 16 years old, she spent around 3 to 4 million yuan on cosmic surgeries.
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That is around 400 to $600,000.
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Instead of buying a house, going to college, investing, doing literally anything else, She puts all of it into changing her face and body Oh
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and her pink Ferrari that she flexes in every post
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and almost hits a cop once and she expressed her entire belief system
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Beautiful people have youth while ugly people are just growing up Basically, she saw beauty as the only way to experience life fully
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So every time she changed something she would take selfies post it online get likes, get attention, and feel validated.
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And rinse and repeat.
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The cycle never ends.
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At only 16 years old, I possess beauty and a figure that many people don't even have at 26.
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I'm so tired.
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She even joined online groups with other girls who were also obsessed with plastic surgery.
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They called themselves plastic surgery sisters and they treated it like it was a competition.
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Like, okay, what upgrade are you getting next?
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I'll be upgrading my job.
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And slowly but surely, Zoe was pushing her body to its limits.
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I mean, after 380 procedures, I'm sure your body is telling you to slow it down.
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You know, maybe just a bit, Zoe.
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Okay, well, it starts fighting back because one of the major side effects that she first got was memory loss, which is horrifying.
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This was because her brain was affected by the constant anesthesia after every procedure.
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And her skin also started sagging all over her body due to the excessive liposuction she had to shrink her waist down.
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So instead of body goals, it's creating a whole set of new problems.
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And what do people usually do when a surgery creates a flaw?
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You get more surgery.
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She thought her face was too square, like Steve.
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So she got jaw shaving surgery.
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And because of that, her facial nerves were damaged, meaning that she couldn't make any facial expressions at all.
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Her face was stuck and frozen in place pretty much, and it somehow gets worse.
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Because of the repeated cantoplasties, those eye widening surgeries that she did over like 20 times,
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her eyes were stretched so much and so wide apart that she can't even fully close them when she sleeps.
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Yeah, sleeping with your eyes halfway opened.
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Was it worth it?
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At this point, doctors pretty much told her that the damage was irreversible.
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The scars, the nerve tissues, the entire structure of your face was permanent now.
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And of course, netizens do what netizens love to do.
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They started calling her plastic surgery monster.
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They joked that she looks 60 years old despite being a teenager.
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They are obviously Martians and they came up with this way to blend in with humans.
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Free admission to the haunted house.
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But here's where the story takes a turn because after this all blew up, Zoe steps on a stage on a show called Super Speaker Youthful Days.
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She gives a speech called the price of plastic surgery
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and for the first time ever she actually sounds self-aware She admits on TV
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that she had hundreds of procedures since she was 13 She spent over 4 million yuan
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and she redid her eyes eight times
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and her nose six times more shockingly She confessed
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that she was happier with her original face than the one after surgery saying
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that she tried to fix it But it was too late
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I noticed that my eyes were in the air and it was a little bit of blood.
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I was scared.
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I was just able to see my eyes when I was still awake.
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I was just a little bit concerned about my doctor's face.
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I was just a little bit concerned about my doctor's face.
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I said, no matter what, you're just a big eye.
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He was just a big eye.
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I was able to fix these things.
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I walked to the北京, the Shanghai, the whole community.
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The doctor gave me the opinion and feedback And during all of this,
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it does seem like she's trying to raise awareness for people just like her.
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She told others to not blindly follow the same path and to appreciate their features, and to understand that the price of beauty is irreversible.
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That is the most self-aware thing that she said in this entire journey.
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Cherish your body.
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I'm still so young and my memory has declined because I had over 80 general anesthesias in two years.
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She even ends it off with, instead of getting plastic surgery, I should have gotten my brain fixed.
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And people watching were stunned.
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I mean, some genuinely felt bad for her, some were even crying, and others saw her as a warning sign of what social pressure
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and beauty standards can do to young people.
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And this clip went viral after that.
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Everybody loved it.
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Everybody was cheering for Zoe, and you know, she finally learned her lesson.
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I'm proud.
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But shortly after the show, she makes a post saying, I'm going to get plastic surgery again.
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Sorry.
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What?
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After everything we just went through, Zoe, why are we giving mixed signals.
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Although I tell everyone online every day to say goodbye to appearance anxiety, I myself am genuinely anxious about my appearance every single day.
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Go, go, go.
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I want to become the most beautiful girl in the world.
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So now netizens are like, wait, were you serious on stage or were you just doing it for attention?
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So now they start calling her a fake fraud.
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You use the sad story to gain sympathy then immediately contradicted it and gets worse because after this,
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people found out that she had fan groups where teenagers would ask her about procedures
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and she would guide them like a mentor to help them schedule it.
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Like as if she's tutoring them on which surgeries to get.
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But then people started blaming her mom for this because from the beginning, her mom was the one supporting it.
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Every year when Zoe returned home to their family reunion dinner, her grandfather would always see her with a completely different face.
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So he'd always try to persuade her mom to tell her to
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stop doing it or at least make it look more natural.
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And her dad is also like, you know, you're embarrassing us.
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Why are you doing this?
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And you know what she says?
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I just look too much like my dad.
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If my dad were more handsome, I wouldn't have gotten surgery.
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It's all my dad's fault.
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Okay.
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She's still like 16 or 17 here.
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So her brain's not fully developed yet, but that is one crazy thing to say to your Asian dad.
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If I said
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that I'd be banished to the underground concubines of the yang dynasty eventually the whole situation blows up even more
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because she kept posting transformation photos on xiao hong shu
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and douyin she starts getting brand deals tv shows start inviting her and slowly
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but surely being the youngest person in china to get plastic surgery starts becoming her entire brand it just shows
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that everything zoe had done so far was just to get attention
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and she sacrificed her face her entire teenage years for that
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if anything the money that was poured into her surgeries was an investment for her becoming an influencer.
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So where's Zoe now?
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Well, I mean recently she got invited to this fashion event where she's looking as fresh as ever.
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She's still active, still posting online, but most importantly, she does not plan to stop getting plastic surgery.
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And looking at Zoe's entire journey, if somebody stepped in earlier like her mom or maybe a close friend, the whole story could have have ended differently.
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But instead, it led to long-term side effects like memory loss, which, I mean, at such a young age, we don't even know how bad it can get later on in her life.
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And well, just like Zoe said before, you know, she started switching up on us, the price of beauty is irreversible.
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Anyways, stay unemployed.

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ในบทเรียนนี้คุณจะได้ฝึกฝนการฟังและการพูดภาษาอังกฤษจากวิดีโอที่มีชื่อว่า "China's Disturbing 'Frozen Face' Girl" ซึ่งเล่าถึงเรื่องราวของเด็กสาวคนหนึ่งที่เปลี่ยนแปลงใบหน้าและพบกับปัญหาหลายอย่างในชีวิต เมื่อคุณเรียนรู้จากเนื้อหาเหล่านี้ คุณจะสามารถปรับปรุงการออกเสียงภาษาอังกฤษของคุณได้ โดยเฉพาะจากเหตุการณ์ในชีวิตจริงและการแสดงอารมณ์ของผู้พูด

คำศัพท์และวลีสำคัญ

  • Plastic surgery - การผ่าตัดเสริมความงาม
  • Bullied - ถูกกลั่นแกล้ง
  • Self-image - ภาพลักษณ์ของตนเอง
  • Societal pressure - ความกดดันจากสังคม
  • Memory loss - ความจำเสื่อม
  • Confidence - ความมั่นใจ
  • Fair skin - ผิวขาว
  • New identity - อัตลักษณ์ใหม่

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เทคนิค Shadowing คืออะไร?

Shadowing เป็นเทคนิคการเรียนรู้ภาษาที่ได้รับการรับรองทางวิทยาศาสตร์ พัฒนาขึ้นสำหรับการฝึกนักแปลมืออาชีพ วิธีการนี้เรียบง่ายแต่ทรงพลัง: คุณฟังเสียงภาษาอังกฤษจากเจ้าของภาษาและพูดตามทันที — เหมือนเงาที่ตามผู้พูดด้วยช่วงเวลาห่าง 1-2 วินาที การวิจัยแสดงว่าเทคนิคนี้ปรับปรุงความแม่นยำในการออกเสียง ทำนองเสียง จังหวะ การเชื่อมเสียง การฟังเข้าใจ และความคล่องแคล่วในการพูดได้อย่างมีนัยสำคัญ