British Teen Plans on Spending More Than $60,000 on Plastic Surgery to Look Like David Beckham

A 19-year-old British man plans on spending more than $60,000 on plastic surgery to look like David Beckham.

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Jack Johnson is a 19-year-old British man who has dropped an insane amount of money on the rather delusional idea of looking like David Beckham. If you want to know how that's going, well, just take a quick look at the video above. Thus far, Johnson has spent $26,000 on plastic surgery in an attempt to look like Beckham, and he plans on wasting spending $39,000 more to make the dream come true. And if that doesn't sound crazy enough, Johnson is actually unemployed at the moment and claims he's using loans to pay for all of his plastic surgery procedures.

Johnson appeared on the British daytime TV program This Morning on Monday and revealed that, so far, he has had his cheeks and chin filled in, his left eyebrow tweaked, his lips and teeth worked on, and his skin tanned through a series of injections that are used to adjust his skin tone. The show's hosts demonstrated some genuine concern for Johnson and remained skeptical throughout his segment, but Johnson said he is committed to looking like Beckham. He's already $26,000 in the hole, so...what's another $39,000?

Johnson's fascination with transforming himself into Beckham is apparently affecting other areas of his life, too. He said that he's unemployed because he's holding out for a TV gig, and he also said that he wants to assume Beckham's "lifestyle" once he looks like him. "I want to be on the friends list of Nicki Minaj, Beyoncé, Drake, and Katie Price," he said. "One day, Simon Cowell will be picking up the phone to me."

Um, OK? If there's a silver lining here, it's that Johnson hasn't spent $100K to look like Justin Bieber or $225K to look like Shakespeare. Yet. But he's headed down a dangerous path.

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