Model wanted a curvier figure, got it with hydrogel and PMMA

Jan 6, 2015 16:32 GMT  ·  By
Miss Bumbum 2012 finalist nearly died when tissue under the fillers in her thighs started to rot
   Miss Bumbum 2012 finalist nearly died when tissue under the fillers in her thighs started to rot

Miss Bumbum in Brazil is a national beauty pageant where nothing matters more than having a pert and toned figure, particularly a curvy one. That’s just a delicate way of saying that it’s a beauty pageant for the backside, which probably explains its worldwide popularity.

Cases of plastic surgery in Brazil have increased considerably in recent years, and contestants for Miss Bumbum are not exactly shy when it comes to going under the knife for “improvement” in key areas like, you guessed it, the thighs and the derriere.

Andressa Urach, a finalist in the 2012 edition of the competition, is one of these women, getting fillers to these two areas, in addition to several other procedures meant to up her chances of success.

A near-death experience

However, Urach is the only contestant to come forward with such a horrific tale of plastic surgery gone wrong. The 27-year-old was hospitalized in early December, telling the local media that she’d developed an infection because of the fillers she had injected some years before in her thighs and backside, meant to make them look fuller but also perter.

She is now going public with photos of the horrific wounds she was left with after the surgery to remove the fillers – wounds that were basically gaping holes on her thigh, where pus collected.

The Mirror has those photos, but *please be advised that they are of a graphic and very disturbing nature.

Urach was rushed to the hospital last month after going into cardiac arrest and respiratory failure. She learned that the fillers she had injected, hydrogel and PMMA, had caused the muscle tissue underneath to rot and that she had to have the fillers removed instantly.

The infection continued to rage after the surgery, and she spent the entire month in hospital, fighting for her life. She will be left with scars where the doctors had to sew the gaping holes on her thighs.

The price of “beauty”

As shocking as Urach’s case is, she’s neither the first nor the last woman to put herself through hell paying the high price of “beauty.” However, when this happens and a woman (or man) is left disfigured or even dies from surgical procedures, it’s usually because the doctors operating on them are not board certified or use “fillers” like cement or industrial grade silicone.

As far as the media knows, Urach didn’t go to some back-alley doctor for her procedure, mostly because she’s pretty famous in her country and could afford to see a board certified specialist for whatever work she wanted done.

Still, this here is a cautionary tale: sometimes more is more, and can have dreadful consequences. In the end, it’s up to each of us to decide if the risk is worth it.