Julie Chen is a popular television personality and CBS produces in the US. She is a co-host in “The Talk”, the host in “Big Brother” and co-anchor of “The Early Show”.

She reveals how she had to go under the knife to make her “Asian eyes” look bigger as a result of racism in the workplace.

According to nydailynews:

When it was her turn to share a deep, dark secret during a segment on “The Talk,” host Julie Chen explained that as a young journalist, she underwent plastic surgery to enlarge her “Asian eyes.”

Chen, 43, explained that she developed a deep insecurity about her eyes at age 25 after a boss at a Dayton, Ohio, news station told her that her heritage was hindering her career success.

But Julie Chen is not alone. Even though it’s been years since her plastic surgery in the 90s, more and more Chinese women are undergoing plastic surgery especially with the growing luxury market in China.

New York-based journalist Rong Xiaoqing wrote in the globaltimes:

They buy luxury goods from designer handbags to vintage French wine. They travel to exotic resorts in the Maldives and the south of France. And they buy multi-million-dollar apartments in New York and London. But that’s definitely not all. The Chinese elite, with their rapidly accumulating wealth, have been gaining a ferocious appetite for plastic surgery.

Some say this quest to adhere with Western beauty standards is beginning to be quite alarming. But with more spending power, who is to say when enough is enough?