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According to Wikipedia:

Bai was born in Chengdu, China; "Bai", her surname, literally means "white". Ling, a common Chinese given name, means clever. Her father, Bai Yuxiang (???), was a musician in the People's Liberation Army, and later a music teacher. Her mother, Chen Binbin (???), was a dancer, stage actress, and a literature teacher in Sichuan University; Bai's maternal grandfather was a military officer of Kuomintang's army, and thus was persecuted during the Cultural Revolution. In early 1980s, Bai Ling's parents divorced, and both got remarried later. Her mother was remarried to the writer Xu Chi (??), who got his national reputation by his report titled Goldbach's Conjecture, about Chinese mathematician Chen Jingrun. Bai Ling has one elder sister Bai Jie (??), who works for a tax bureau in China, and a younger brother Bai Chen (??), who emigrated to Japan and works for an American company. Bai has described herself as a very shy child who found that she best expressed herself through acting and performing. She has since said that acting allows one to ignore how society tells one to behave and allows other parts within oneself to be expressed. During the Cultural Revolution (1966 - 1976), she learned how to perform by participating in Eight model plays shows in her elementary school. After her graduation of middle school, she was sent to do labor work at Shuangliu (??), a suburb county of Chengdu, where the Chengdu Shuangliu International Airport is located. Before long, she managed to pass the People's Liberation Army's exams, and became an "artist soldier" at Linzhi, Tibet. Her main activity there was to entertain with musical theater[citation needed]. She also served as a nurse for a while in the army. Three years later, she was discharged from the army, and joined People's Art Theater of Chengdu, and became a professional actress. Her performance in a stage play Yueqin and Little Tiger as a young man drew attention of movie director Teng Wenji (???), and gained her her first movie role in On The Beach (1985), as a village girl who becomes a factory worker and fights against her father's will for her to marry her cousin. In later years, she appeared in several movies. She temporarily moved to New York in 1991 to attend New York University's film department as a visiting scholar, but later obtained a special visa that allowed her to remain in the United States until she became a citizen in 1999.

Alex Kuczynski's story appears on this website about Beverly Hills plastic surgery:

The American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery reports that the overall number of cosmetic procedures has increased 228 percent since 1997. The numbers are likely to rise as the population ages, prices drop, younger patients seek out surgery, technology and genetic engineering generate new techniques, and more doctors from various fields offer cosmetic surgical procedures.

Surgical procedures will inevitably become less expensive, said Dr. Lloyd M. Krieger, a plastic surgeon who also has an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago, in part because procedures that 10 years ago took place in a hospital operating room and required expensive overnight stays now take place in a doctor's office. And, like any consumer product, as it becomes more popular, the laws of economics dictate that the price will come down.

"Usually that does not apply to health care, which is bound up with insurance issues, but in the case of cosmetic surgery, people are using their own money so the typical health-insurance restrictions don't apply," Dr. Krieger said. Consumers approach cosmetic surgery as a retail decision, "as if they were buying a cruise, a vacation, a car."

Press release:

NEW YORK, Dec. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Responding to recent reports of the Fig LipoDissolve Centers going into Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) and the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ASAPS) offers the following advice to patients currently in treatment there or suffering from unwanted outcomes.

Although neither Society recommends the use of injection lipolysis for fat reduction until appropriate research has documented the safety and efficacy of this non-FDA-approved treatment information is available for those patients needing help. -- If you are in the middle of lipolysis treatment and have concerns: Contact ASAPS at 1.888.272.7711 or http://www.surgery.org or ASPS at http://www.plasticsurgery.org to find a board certified plastic surgeon in your area who can provide you with safe options for continuing your body contouring process. --

If you are in pain, have a complication such as swelling or bleeding or need immediate attention; please contact your nearest hospital emergency room.

-- If you are seeking body contouring or are considering your various options please remember the following: All procedures involving injecting pharmaceutical or other agents into the body are medical procedures and need to be conducted in an appropriate medical setting by a physician. A Board Certified Plastic Surgeon can help you weigh your options to achieve the optimal outcome you desire.

The ASPS and ASAPS do not recommend that their patients undergo injection lipolysis treatments. All medical procedures have risks. If you decide a procedure is right for you, make sure you have done your homework, that the procedure has been fully explained by your healthcare provider and that you have thoroughly read and signed informed consent documents. "The proliferation of advertising of such treatments and the abrupt closing of Fig LipoDissolve Centers nationwide has raised many questions from both patients considering treatment, and those who have already been injected with the unproven medical treatments touted to reduce localized fat.

Said Alan Gold, MD President - elect of the Anesthetic Society, "To date, injection lipolysis, LipoDissolve or any fat-melting injection has not gone through FDA sanctioned clinical trials or the research necessary to document the results claimed or clearly identify the potential underlying complications." "Consumers should not ignore the proliferation of blogs and media that are reporting the ineffectiveness and the complications experienced by fat-melting injections," said Richard A. D'Amico, ASPS President." This mixture is not FDA approved nor has it been formally tested for predictable results or safety. That alone should steer consumers away from the marketing hype."