To think that 5 children growing up motherless because their Mum wanted cosmetic surgery is absolutely tragic *edited by MNHQ

I don’t think this is true. You can go back further than 50 years and find women developing extreme eating disorders, having ribs removed, swallowing tapeworms…

Personally, I'd happily ban all cosmetic surgery and see any doctor or surgeon practising it struck off, if not imprisoned.

But that would simply trigger a backlash of "it's my body, blah-di-blahs", and that isn't really worth the hassle.

Interesting you can have enough filler to float a battleship legally injected by a butcher, but take one puff on a spliff and it's the big house for you.

Victim blaming. What a load of old tosh.

This woman knew the risks and went ahead with it anyway, completely disregarding her 5 children.

It's the children I feel sorry for, not her.

@Function because maybe men aren't that stupid. Millions and millions of women don't feel the need to do that, so don't blame it on 'society' and social media. We are all responsible for our choices.

Two people have been arrested after this death. Although described on the news as an "operation" that infers hospital, anaesthetic, doctors/nurses, but this BBL thing appears to involve injections. So many women are buying into this "fake" aesthetic of lip fillers, implants in their bum or breasts, botox and the rest of it, and are quite happy to cut costs by allowing some random "beauty therapist" loose on them with syringes.

Absolute madness and if there is found to be negligence I hope the people involved in mutilating women's bodies in this manner without proper medical training are locked up for a long time.

I've shaved under my arms since I first discovered hair there, I didn't like it, nothing to do with the male gaze.

However, I don't see why women have to shave their legs, but have done it since I was about 17. That is societal pressure. BUT there's a very significant difference between shaving and having unnecessary surgery or injecting unnecessary chemicals into our bodies.

@poppyzbrite4 because I have a physical preference for how my own skin feels?

Point proven.

You tell yourself that.

Well, I had 32Hs and it was beyond me why anyone would want massive boobs. Anything above a C is unnecessary. We are all influenced by our circs.

But it needs to be a warning.

if there is societal pressure we need to point out the damage.

No one is remotely happy that she has lost her life,

You say that but I now work with, and have worked with, female lawyers who are keen on Botox and surgery. It's not about intelligence (well, not academic intelligence, anyway).

Don't be a fool. Shaving offers no risk to ones life, and very little monetary cost.

I agree, there's no reason for it, and it's often left to the NHS to pick up the pieces.

However, she was an aesthetician herself and I wonder if she was just trying out the procedure as it was being introduced in her clinic?

Agreed, it seems to be those who aren't the brightest that seem to fall for the idea of needing plastic surgery.

Just like no one forces women to conform to pointless and sometimes harmful beauty standards?

It’s misogyny through and through. Since advertising existed women have been unwitting targets to make companies millions.
Social media and filters has made it so much worse and has created a huge issue of widespread body dysmorphia. At the root of it though is a foundation of women not being good enough.

@poppyzbrite4 I shave because I prefer how my legs feel and how my skin feels. It exfoliates my skin well and I find it more pleasant

Instead of blaming the victim, I prefer to fight to dismantle the deeply entrenched systems of misogyny and ageism that have for years told women that they are worthless unless they are young, buxom and 'fertile looking'.

Do you shave? There's no reason for it, it's societal pressure.

The 2 words to blame are social media and its that simple. Some people devote their lives to wanting to look good to show off. I suppose vanity is the ultimate cause but without the need to compete and show the world how good you are via SM it wouldnt be so extreme.

What's sad is how beautiful she looked before destroying her face and body.

Why anyone would have something injected into themselves by someone who is not medically trained in that particular area is beyond me. The law needs to change.

I also disagree that women are forced into this by societal pressure. Bollocks. Many women are not bothered about it!

I’m also intrigued as to what happened here given it was non surgical and “just” filler rather than a full on BBL. It sounds like she became very unwell very quickly. Could that level of filler cause some sort of major reaction perhaps?

I don’t have any issues with women having cosmetic procedures although don’t have any myself. But it needs to be regulated ASAP so that only trained medical professionals can administer them rather than by Sharon down the road who has not a single GCSE who’s done a single 3 hour course in her mates living room.

I do believe there is a belief that it is best to be slimmer, that is not a new pressure to anyone in society.

There is however no pressure on anyone to have a super Kardashian style bottom, that is just pure vanity. The aesthetics industry, which this poor woman actually worked in is responsible for promoting this culture of it being completely normal to inject parts of your body with these substances. It's unregulated, its not a medical environment, it beggars belief how anyone could think injecting any part of your body with anything it doesn't actually need is necessary.
The 'clinic' she went to was in a house and had a entrance that looked like a shed. The people that own the business had lips overly full of filler themselves and clearly a skewed view of how the human body should appear.

People who have mentioned men on here, I've never heard any man ever suggest a woman needs overly plumped lips, or a gravity defying arse.
This is all down to the aesthetics industry, mainly run by women, and what they promote on social media.

Find this thread and the unempathetic comments in poor taste to be honest