'Big Brother' host, Julie Chen, has admitted to having a plastic surgery to fix her 'Asian eyes'.
The Chinese-American former CBS news anchor told the Talk that at the age of 25, she became insecure about her eyes while working for a small TV news, where a boss told her that looking Asian isn't "relatable", the New York Post reported.
She said that her boss told her that time that she could never become an anchor because she is Chinese and that when she was on camera, she looked disinterested and bored.
Chen, 43, said that she later had plastic surgery on her whole face, including a procedure to trim excess skin found above her eyelids.
She said her career picked up shortly after.
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