A Woman Won a Free “Mommy Makeover” in Korea — and the Results Left People Stunned

hour ago

A Woman Won a Free “Mommy Makeover” in Korea — and the Results Left People Stunned

The internet couldn’t stop talking after a 57-year-old woman won a series of plastic surgeries. A video showing her dramatic before-and-after transformation quickly surpassed 80 million views on YouTube, leaving many convinced she had aged in reverse.

She was the first winner of a “Mommy Makeover.”

Yvie submitted her application to Braun Plastic Surgery, a Korean beauty clinic whose YouTube channel features a wide range of content about cosmetic procedures. She was selected for a new challenge in which doctors aimed to transform someone older.

“Up until now, we’ve performed surgeries mostly on young people who wanted to become prettier,” one of the doctors explained. So the new focus became older women. In fact, they specifically looked for “middle-aged women who gained a lot of weight after childbirth and parenting or whose faces were sagging due to aging.” Yvie’s name came up in a lucky draw.

She wasn’t happy with herself.

“I am a 57-year-old woman, and I’m interested in applying to be one of your models,” she said in her application video. “I sent a picture of myself when I was 34 years old. You know, I still feel on the inside like I’m the person in that photo, but when I look in the mirror, I get surprised that I look tired and drawn and just like life has done a number on me. So, I’d like to get back some of that freshness.”

Just before being flown to South Korea to meet the medical team and get several plastic surgeries, she admitted that what bothered her was how her appearance wasn’t on par with the way she thought of herself. “One of the things I’m excited about with these procedures I’m doing at Braun is that I hope my outside starts to match how I feel on the inside a little bit more,” she spoke candidly. “I don’t feel 57. I feel younger than that and sort of more excited about life, and about doing things in the future. But when I look in the mirror, I look 57.”

“My ears are getting longer, my nose is getting bigger, my wrinkles are getting deeper. It’s startling. It’s hard to age and face those changes in the mirror and kind of be taken by surprise sometimes at the fact that you don’t look like you anymore,” she added.

Most of the procedures focused on her face.

According to the clinic, Yvie underwent four different plastic surgery procedures on her face and breasts. These included a breast lift with ptosis correction, a SMAS facelift with a forehead lift, a lower blepharoplasty with eyelid fat repositioning, and facial liposuction.

“There’s a bit of sagging in her face as well as in her breasts, so she wanted a breast reduction,” one of the doctors explained. “The sagging breasts are causing her shoulder pain, that was her biggest concern.”

The results left everyone completely stunned.

Although Yvie described the recovery as tough, she’s happy with the changes in her appearance and the improvement in her quality of life, especially after the breast reduction. “The recovery, especially the first two or three days, was challenging for me,” she shared in a post-surgery video. “But I didn’t come with family or friends, so I had to do everything myself, and I think that contributed to being more challenging.”

“I already feel liberated from the chest that I was carrying before, which was always in the way. It was very heavy, and my back hurt,” she added. “Thank you so very much.”

People were quick to share their amazement at the transformation. “She was gorgeous before surgery, but glad that she looks so happy and confident afterwards,” one person wrote. Another echoed the sentiment, saying, “But she was absolutely gorgeous before, I’m glad you gave her confidence back! Amazing result!”

One viewer also commented, “This is the first time I’ve seen someone do this surgery and come out looking the same, this is great work and she’s beautiful then and now.”