Beauty will always be a big business, it was in the time of ancient Egypt until today. Only now there are more options than ever. Sad to hear about the lady destroying here kidneys, you can get massive kidney stones from vitamin c, they can only process so much at a time!
In the end it all comes down the old adage, sex sells...
It's saddening though. Having an actual healthy kidney and then destroying it by oneself. I want to think she was ignorant and hence didn't know the health complications of taking 2k mg of the pills per day.