14 DAY TRIAL // Monique Allen first went under the knife when she was 22 years old when, with her parents’ money, she got gender reassignment surgery. Since then and until now, Monique has had over 200 interventions, to the point where she doesn’t have a single part of her body untouched by the scalpel.
In a new TV segment on Channel 5, “200 Nips and Tucks but I Want More,” Monique gets candid on her addiction to plastic surgery, which she compares to an addiction to alcohol or drugs: she simply can’t stop getting more work done even though she knows it’s bad for her, that she should.
She has spent an estimated $200,000 (€146,649) on surgery and has had work by some of the most famous doctors in Beverly Hills, but also the most dubious professionals from beyond the border, as she admits in the special.
“I'm fun, outgoing, and I love being glamorous. I've had two eyelifts, I had one upper eye job, I've had more than 20 nose jobs, I've had my lips injected 20 times, I've had silicone removal eight to 12 times, eight breast jobs, sculpting of breasts and [backside] eight times, re-sculpting of breasts four times,” she enumerates, as cited by the Daily Mail.
She started getting work done after she was introduced to the LA party scene in 1997 and she became hooked instantly. Today, the term that would best describe Monique’s appearance is “deformed.”
“I started hanging around with other people like me. I had never known there were other people like me, so I start going to Hollywood and night clubs and stuff and I start seeing the other girls are having this done, and that done, and I gravitated towards that,” she explains.
“I've had lots of scares with plastic surgery. I've had tons of liquid silicone from a bottle into my body about 40 times… once a doctor shot so much in, it looked like an egg when it went into my face. He squashed it and squashed it and tried to mold it but I could feel it going down my throat,” Monique continues.
With all that, she won’t stop. She believes she’s the record holder for most surgical interventions in the world (or at least the record holder for most illegal interventions in the world), and she can’t stop even though, oddly enough, she thinks she’s “cured” of her addiction.
“When it comes to beauty, I'm not afraid. I get off on it, I still do. Once an addict, always an addict. I could go tomorrow. Hello doctor, put me under... I love it,” Monique boasts.