She sure has a nosey audience.
A woman from Argentina has gone viral for joking that the results of her “nose job” would be passed down to future offspring – prompting backlash from viewers who couldn’t sniff out the satire.
“Yo haciéndome la rino para que mis hijos nazcan con linda nariz,” Fiorella Ciminello, 19, wrote on a viral TikTok clip with over 344,000 views, which shows her laying in bed with a bandaged nose.
The text roughly translates to: “Me getting a rhinoplasty so that my kids are born with pretty noses.”
But Ciminello fooled her followers, telling The Post that she never actually received a “rhinoplasty” – as the surgery she underwent was simply to rectify a deviated septum.
“The video of the rhinoplasty was fake, I just wanted to make a joke about my surgery,” she told The Post, noting that her nose is “the same as always.”
According to The Sun, fellow TikTokers flamed the young content creator for falsely claiming her nose alterations would be passed down to her children genetically.
“I dyed my hair blond so that my children will also be blond,” one user mocked.
“The headline is going to be the best: Woman denounces her surgeon for fraud because her children were not born with the nose he gave her,” another quipped.
“That’s why I didn’t get a tattoo, I don’t want my children to be born with tattoos,” someone else joked.
While plastic surgery traits obviously can’t be passed on to offspring, the West Coast Plastic Surgery Center published a blog post to clear up what is a surprisingly common misconception.
“Plastic surgery does not have the capability of changing the DNA of our cells,” reads the entry penned by board-certified plastic surgeon Dr. Yuly Gorodisky. “It does not change the epigenetic markers that pass on information.”
But many still believe body modifications can actually be passed down.
TikToker and tattoo artist Jamie Lo, who touts 1.7 million followers on the platform, recalled the time a pregnant client who wanted to be inked so that her baby “to have tattoos.” In a clip with 2.3 million views, a horrified Lo claimed the woman apparently read about it online and wanted her child to be “alternative and cute.”
In fact, the artist said in the caption that it’s happened more than once or twice.
Ciminello’s rhinoplasty comes as Gen Z plastic surgery requests soar to an all-time high. In fact, one teen’s mom saved up for the young girl’s nose job after years of harsh bullying at school.
