Influencer Oli London Apologizes for Getting Surgery to Look Like BTS’

YouTuber Oli London is issuing an apology to Okay-Pop group BTS‘ Park Jimin and the Asian group for “attempting to grow to be one other individual.”

The influencer, who’s non-binary and makes use of they/them pronouns, has undergone 32 surgical procedures to “achieve (their) Jimin look,” they stated in a video per NBC News. The different operations include six nose jobs, a watch surgical procedure, a facelift, a forehead carry, a temple carry and a enamel process, as a result of London needed to “look precisely like” their “final idol.” London stated in a 2021 YouTube video, titled “Being Korean,” that they have been not “British,” however “Korean.”

Nonetheless, London now regrets their actions, saying in an Aug. 29 YouTube video that “it wasn’t the appropriate factor to do” and including that it was fallacious to “emulate Jimin in such an obsessive means.”

Although London “nonetheless identifies as Korean,” they prolonged an apology to “any member of the Asian group that has ever misunderstood me or misinterpreted me or thought possibly I used to be a bit bit too obsessive about Jimin.”