The woman known as China's answer to 'Michael Jackson' for her love of plastic surgery believes she's been under the knife 40 or 50 times since 1985.

Shi Sanba, 55 and herself a plastic surgeon, has had operations to smooth wrinkles, fold her eyelids, raise her nose, shape her chin, firm her chest, flatten her belly - and more.

Thousands of plastic surgery clinics have mushroomed across China with the rise of an urban middle class on the back of booming economic growth, but Shi's profile and charisma has shot hers to the front.