10 Outrageous Ways Women Have Suffered To Be Beautiful

Another fad to lose weight in the 19th century included medicines that contained small doses of arsenic. 

Of course the sellers would never advertise that they were selling diet remedies that included poison and many women would take copious amounts of the stuff in order to lose more weight. 

Unbeknownst to them, they were consuming vast amounts of arsenic, which caused many to die of arsenic poisoning. Always read the label, ladies...