Superman wannabe gets his 15 minutes of fame on ‘Botched’

FILIPINO Superman’s request for new procedures was rejected on the reality show.

Filipinos and Fil-Ams appear to be all over the US TV screen this season. After “Odd Mom Out” and its Pinay nanny, which we wrote about early this month, now comes a telecast of “Botched” that devoted a lot of TV time to a seeker of absolute physical “perfection”—who just happened to be Filipino.

What got the show’s resident plastic surgeons especially interested in him was the fact that he had spent all his adult life trying to look like Clark Kent—and by association, Superman!

Now that resonated not with the surgeons, but also with viewers, due to the special place that Superman inhabits in many people’s “super” fantasies.

So, the fact that somebody would undergo so many cosmetic surgical procedures in over a decade to achieve that “fantasticating” dream was an especially powerful empathetic attraction for many viewers.

The Kent-Superman wannabe was in his “15 minutes of fame” element and “moment” as he shared in great, revealing detail how each procedure had made him look more and more like his idol(s).

Separate operations had given him a new facial contour, profile, cleft chin, eyebrow arc, musculature and even artificial “abs” that did enable him to achieve his “one for the books” objective.

So if the vaunted prize was won, what was he doing in the surgeons’ clinic?

Aside from the additional TV time that he craved, he felt that his “super” musculature needed even more pumping up—and being rich and lazy, he didn’t want to have to work out in a gym to attain the enhancement. So, could the plastic surgeons help?

After extensively “talking through” the unusual request, they decided to not humor and oblige him—because, in their carefully considered opinion, he had already exceeded his “quota” for physical alterations and improvement, and the new procedures he craved could constitute a physical risk that wasn’t worth taking!

The downbeat decision disappointed our Superman clone, but it taught viewers an important lesson: Physical “improvement” is OK, but not when it turns neurotic and psychologically questionable!

Besides, the client they opted to reject had already achieved his goal, so further “fretwork” would cast aspersions on their good judgment.

Before he left their clinic, however, the Filipino Superman wannabe surprised and even shocked the doctors with details exposing how some cosmetic surgeons “back home” would take verboten shortcuts to give him the physical changes he desired—and was willing to pay a lot for.

They included the injection of fluids and gels that were otherwise disallowed for procedure on humans!

The American cosmetic surgeons were shocked to get the lowdown from the super-squealer, and consequently got an exceedingly poor impression of some of their local counterparts.

Wonder how those doctors felt as they were watching the “super” squeal-fest?