Plastic Surgery is a surgical procedure that involves reconstruction, restoration or alteration of a human body. Reconstructive surgeries are those who turn to plastic surgery to correct a physical defect and regain a normal appearance after a tragic accident. Cosmetic or also known as Aesthetic surgery is where a person wants to alter a part of the body because it makes them uncomfortable.
Whatever the reasons it may be, there are benefits and disadvantages of having a plastic surgery. If surgery done right, it can increase one's self confidence and enhanced mental health. However, those who are considering plastic surgery needs to know there are risk involved. It may lead to medical complications and in worse cases, death. Common risks of going under the knife are infection, severe bleeding, necrosis, seroma, blood clots and nerve damange that may lead to numbness.
Here are 4 cases of cosmetic surgery that has gone from bad to worst.
1. Hang Mioku
Hang Mioku is a case of a surgery obsessed woman from Korea who did something extraordinary all in the name of trying to change her looks. She injected cooking oil into her own face after she had undergone several plastic surgeries and so doctors refused to operate on her anymore. She managed to find a doctor who agreed to inject her with silicone and also gave her a face-injection kit so that she could easily do it herself at home. Unfortunately, she ran out of silicone and that's when she resorted to cooking oil which she injected on her face with disastrous results!
Injecting cooking oil is not absurb or uncommon as people think. In the Arab and Middle Eastern bodybuilding communities, the use of injected natural oils seems to be most well known. The result of the addiction could cause tumors, muscle fibrosis, deformity and loss of function.
When injecting oil into your muscles, infections generally occur because harmful bacteria in the oil, on the needle, or on the surface of the skin that enters the bloodstream. Sepsis can occur when the bacteria and their toxins grow and spread throughout the body.
In Hang Mioku case, her obession leads to facial deformity.
2. Jocelyn Wildenstein
She was born Jocelyn Dayannys da Silva Bezerra (although she is now referred to as 'cat woman' or 'the bride of Wildenstein') She is a rich socialite who was once married to businessman Alec Wildenstein who has a unique love for exotic animals. Apparently, Jocelyn divorced with Wildenstein because of his unfaithfulness. She is rumored to have tried to woo her husband back by trying to transmogrify herself into one of the exotic animals that her husband loved so much!
3. Jacky Stallone
Jacky is the mother of Hollywood star actor Sylvester Stallone and she is famous for claiming that she could talk to dogs about the future. She is also said to have at one time set up a psychic hotline where callers would be charged for the advice she gave them. In an exclusive interview with dailymail in 2013, Jacky reveals how she regrets having plastic surgery. She confessed she looks like a ‘chipmunk with a mouth full of walnuts'.
Jacky Stallone uses Juvederm which is a famimly of injectable hyaluronic acid dermal fillers used for facial wrinkles and folds as well as lip augmentation. She is still alive today at age 97 and credits her longevity to her love of spinach.
4. Donatella Versace
She is a sister to the late famous Italian designer Gianni Versace. At first glance, one may notice the overly plump upper lip Versace has. Normally, natural lower lips tend to be 50 percent larger than the upper lip, however in Versace's case, the proportions are reversed. This is commonly known as trout pout where the lips are unnaturally swollen from injection of excessive collagen. In addition, the designer's skin looks waxy, possibly the result of multiple laser treatments.
