92 Unit 08 The next chapter Read the article about a person’s bad experience with a cosmetic procedure. Some words are missing. Choose the correct word (A–R) for each gap (1–15). There are two extra words that you should not use. Write your answers in the boxes provided. The first one (0) has been done for you. LANGUAGE IN USE 1 Model sues company behind cosmetic procedure A famous model has revealed how she was persuaded by TV advertisements to undergo a fat-freezing cosmetic procedure known as CryoSlim. She now says that she has been “permanently deformed” after the (0) : instead of shrinking, the fat cells targeted by the procedure (1) . The model says she now has “things sticking out of her” all over her body, which is why she has decided to (2) the company behind CryoSlim for $50m. She said, “Those CryoSlim (3) were on TV all the time, on CNN, on MSNBC, over and over, and they would ask: ‘Do you like what you see in the (4) ?’ I felt like they were speaking to me. Looks are important to me. I’m a little (5) , so I went for it. I drank the magic potion – and it backfired.” The model said she had to go to hospital for various operations to correct the (6) complication she suffered after the procedure. She had two rounds of liposuction and, at one point, she stopped eating. “I was so (7) because I’d just spent all this money and looked worse than before. The only way I could think of to fix it was zero calories, and so I just drank water. Or sometimes I would have a stick of celery or one apple,” she said. “I was going crazy … seriously … I was losing my (8) .” She said she is now (9) for self-acceptance and “trying to love myself as I am”, but she still (10) the CryoSlim procedure. “If I had known that the (11) may include losing your livelihood as a model and feeling so (12) that you hate yourself … I wouldn’t have taken such a (13) .” She said she still suffered the psychological effects from a long stay in hospital for the (14) which she had to have in order to fix the effects of the CryoSlim procedure on her body. She stressed, however, that she had received a lot of help from her friends. “Am I cured mentally? Absolutely not,” she said. “But I’m so grateful for the (15) I got from my friends and from my industry … You’re not going to see me in a swimsuit, that’s for sure. It’s going to be difficult to find jobs while I look like this.” 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 101112131415 Q A commercials G mind M striving B complexion H mirror N sue C depressed I rare O support D embarrassed J regrets P surgery E expanded K risk Q treatment F incentive L side-effects R vain Key Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv
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