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| Saturday, 16 September 2006 | |
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The author of the book that inspired the TV series, Gustavo Bolivar Moreno, said “All adolescent girls are self-conscious about their bodies, but I have met 13-year-olds saving up surgery money specifically to reach their ultimate goal — a cocaine smuggler." “Even when the women have gone under the knife to measure up, they are merely used and discarded in the worst possible ways,” he said. Sin Tetas follows the rise and fall of Katherine, a girl who becomes a prostitute to pay for D-cup breasts that will attract the attention of a glamorous local thug who sports dark glasses, armed guards and a swimming pool. In one episode she says she wants to become a gangster's girlfriend “because even if my man dies, I will be out of the mud”. Young women interviewed in Bogota last week said they recognised Katherine in the programme. Johanna, a communications student aged 22, said: “It’s really popular because it shows real life. Girls like to be skinny but men want them to have big chests so they go along with it.” Diana, a 21-year-old student, said: “Of course it’s exaggerated and not all girls go to such extremes to get the surgery, but enough do.” While unclear how many Colombian women are setting their sights on a drug dealer, there are plenty of potential mates for those girls choosing this career path - a Bogota police report suggests up to 350,000 young men, out of Colombia’s 41m people, are or have been involved in the drug trade. “Americans like to go blonde, but here they like to go big,” said a member of the Colombian Plastic Surgeons Society. “Sometimes you have to calm them down a bit before they damage themselves.” He estimated that one in six young women in richer cities such as Medellin and Cartagena had had some “work done”, a higher rate than in Beverly Hills. |
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