In this photo taken Wednesday March 14, 2012, Nilcea Furtado receives a free of charge radio-frequency treatment by Dr. Ana Paula, right, at the Brazilian Society of Aesthetic Medicine clinic in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The philosophy behind the clinic and more than 200 similar clinics across Brazil, is that beauty is a right, and that the poor deserve to be ravishing, too. Beauty, the doctors argue, is more than skin deep, and by treating what their patients view as physical flaws they are often also healing their psyches.

Doctors perform an abdominoplasty surgery at the Santa Casa de Misericordia hospital in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Wednesday March 21, 2012. The hospital focuses on reconstructive operations for burn victims and people with serious deformations, but it also provides discounted cosmetic procedures. At least two dozen, mostly public hospitals in Rio alone offer discounted or sometimes free cosmetic surgeries to low income people, according to a website aimed at informing potential patients.

Jessica Legorreta poses wearing her self-made RC Transformer motorcycle costume at her home in a working class neighborhood in Mexico City, Wednesday, June 8, 2011. Legorreta whose daytime job is an industrial designer, is, along with her husband, an avid cosplayer and cosmaker, a type of performance art in which participants don and make costumes and accessories to represent a specific character. Their characters of choice are the Transformers and the Star Wars characters.

Jose Luis Mendez Luna gets help from his wife Jessica Legorreta, as he prepares to dress as Darth Vader at his home on Wednesday.

Jose Luis Mendez Luna and his wife Jessica Legorreta pose with their Optimus Prime and RC Transformer costumes in their dining room on Wednesday.