What are some weird or dangerous things you heard people did in the past to look attractive? I’ve read an article saying that people in the 40s would

swallow tapeworms on purpose to lose weight and women use to drip poison from flowers in their eyes to make their pupils bigger because this was seen as attractive😮😬

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cherokeepatti · 61-69, F

There was a doctor who would give a capsule to patients that wanted to lose weight. He’d tell them when they reached their goal to come back and he would give them another capsule. The first capsule was a tapeworm head, the second was medicine to kill the tapeworm. I believe the people didn’t know what they were being given.

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cherokeepatti · 61-69, F

@RogueLoner My uncle told me the story about it. I guess it got in the news after that doctor was found out.