( from usatoday.com )From the "Beauty Is in the Eye of the Beholder" file comes this horror story from Korea:

A woman obsessed with cosmetic surgery for the past 20 years is now grotesquely disfigured, in part from injecting cooking oil into her face, the London Telegraph reports, picking up news from South Korean media.

Hang Mioku was 28 when she had the first plastic surgery to her face. She moved to Japan so she could have more operations. The Telegraph elaborates:

Following operation after operation, her face was eventually left enlarged and disfigured, but she would still look at herself in the mirror and think she was beautiful.

Eventually the surgeons she visited refused to carry out any more work on her and one suggested that her obsession could be a sign of a psychological disorder.

When she returned home to Korea the surgery meant Hang's features had changed so much that her own parents didn't recognise her.

After realising that the girl with the grossly swollen face was indeed their daughter her horrified parents took her to a doctor. Once again the possibility that Hang had a mental disorder was raised and she started treatment.

However, this treatment was too expensive for her to keep up and she soon fell back into old ways.

Amazingly, she found a doctor who was willing to give her silicone injects and, what's more, he then gave her a syringe and silicone of her own so she could self-inject.

When her supply of silicone ran out Hang resorted to injecting cooking oil into her face.

Her face became so grotesquely large that she was called "standing fan" by children in her neighbourhood — due to her large face and small body.

TV viewers donated money so Hang, now 48, could have her face reduced, though she is still disfigured.