Herbert Chavez has transformed himself into Clarke Kent and his superhero alias (Picture: E!/Barcroft India)

A Filipino man has undergone 23 surgeries in 18 years to turn himself into the Man of Steel.

Thirty-seven-year-old Herbert Chavez from Calamba City in the Philippines has had nose jobs, skin-whitening, liposuction, jaw realignment, pec implants, bum implants and fillers to look like Superman after falling in love with the TV programme when he was five-years-old.

To date, he’s spent around 300,000 pesos (over £4,200) on his obsession with the superhero and his alter-ego Clarke Kent.

Herbert has changed his appearance drastically with nose jobs, skin whitening, fillers and jaw realignment (Picture: Barcroft India)

But, doctors have now refused to give him the abs of steel he wants, after discovering he’s been injecting his chest and abs with fillers which are illegal in the US.




Herbert appears on a new episode of E!’s Botched show, where doctors Terry Dubrow and Dr Paul Nassif are horrified to discover he’s been injecting a controversial filler product called MesoLipo into his body.

Herbert meets Botched doctors Terry Dubrow and Dr Paul Nassif (Picture: E! Entertainment/XPOSUREPHOTOS.COM)

However, despite being refused a permanent abdominal implant, with the doctors suggesting diet and exercise instead, Herbert denies plastic surgery is his kryptonite.

‘What is there for me to regret?’ he asks. ‘Everything that has happened in my life has been positive and because of Superman. When my body says it can not endure it anymore or when my doctor says that my body can not handle it because of age, then I will stop.’

(Picture: Barcroft India)

Just add a little dramatic lighting… (Picture: Alamy)

He hopes his transformation into Superman will help inspire the same wonder in others he experienced as a child.

Herbert fell in love with Superman at the age of 5 (Picture: E! Entertainment/XPOSUREPHOTOS.COM)

‘I like to show to the people, especially the children of the Philippines, that I’m here. Superman is real,’ Herbert says. ‘What I want is to give them inspiration. To give hope.’

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