Dying to be beautiful

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ElephantsAndMiasmas · 09/02/2011 13:54

Did anyone else see this story on the BBC, about a British woman who has died following a buttock "enhancement" injection?

Fucking hell.

I bet there are a lot of stories like that (am thinking of Kanye West's mother for example) and wondered if anyone else knew of any? We could collect them here to show that cosmetic surgery is not as risk free as bloody everyone would have us believe :(

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HerBeX · 09/02/2011 14:20

I heard that on my way home from work. How bloody dreadful. I mean, how can you be so brainwashed that your arse needs operating on that you risk death for it?

But I bet she didn't realise that she was in fact, risking death. I bet the risk was understated.

David51 · 09/02/2011 15:00

There was a case very recently of a German porn model who died after her 6th successive breast implant:

www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12249452

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ElephantsAndMiasmas · 09/02/2011 15:05

Link to Dr Donda West case.

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SueWhite · 09/02/2011 15:08

But people also risk death or serious injury for a lot of other slightly daft things, including most sports. I do think cosmetic surgery is often a pointless risk, but people often take a higher risk for less gain.

vesuvia · 09/02/2011 16:31

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sakura · 10/02/2011 04:06

I read in the Beauty myth (I know, I know) that an African president (sorry can't remember which country) shut down the cosmetic surgery industry, effectively banned it, after 14 girls died. She went on to say "how many women in the good old US of A..?" the truth is that nobody knows because nobody is keeping count of how many women in the west are dying which is short-hand for "nobody gives a fuck"