14 DAY TRIAL // Until not long ago, Andressa Urach was one of the most vocal advocates of plastic surgery, even in excessive amounts. Considering that it helped her go from no-one to one of the most mediated women in her home country Brazil, it’s no wonder why she maintained plastic surgery was the only guarantee in one’s attempt to become famous.
In 2012, Andressa became a finalist in Brazil’s infamous Miss Bumbum competition, which is sort of like a beauty pageant where hopefuls must convince a panel of judges that they have the best bodies and booties in the country.
After that, her endorsement of plastic surgery became even more aggressive. Today, she’s singing a different tune, after a very close brush with death when she went into septic shock because of fillers that had rotted the muscles of her thighs.
First interview since emergency hospitalization
In November last year, Andressa was rushed to the hospital with a severe infection. She had already started the process of having fillers from her thighs removed after she developed acute pain in the area and had noticed that the product injected there had started to migrate downwards.
The infection became even worse and she went into septic shock. To this day, she still has fluid draining from the holes in her thighs from where the fillers were removed – but not before they rotted the muscle underneath.
Urach sat down for her first interview since the hospitalization with Rede TV: if you speak the language, you can see it in the video below. She’s basically saying the same thing she said in previous written interviews: she was a fool to risk everything for vanity and she wants other women to learn from her disastrous experience.
As the Sydney Morning Herald puts it, even if Urach isn’t that famous in the US or Europe, her message is a powerful one and is comparable to country legend Dolly Parton speaking against plastic surgery. Especially since it comes on the heels of the announcement that, for the first time ever, Brazil surpassed the US in the number of surgical procedures done.
Real lesson or hypocrisy?
“I put that poison in my body, mostly because of having too much vanity,” Urach says, echoing an earlier statement in which she affirmed her belief that the near-death experience had been God’s way of punishing her for having been so vain.
However, she adds, the blame isn’t entirely hers: society is to blame because it “unfortunately holds a standard of beauty in which you have to be perfect.” She adds, “I hope that these wounds at least serve as a warning to other women.”
Again, this is not something new, because Urach said this much in a couple of previous interviews, one of them taken from the hospital bed, no less. She was warned that this might happen (apparently, she had 200 times over the legal quantity of fillers in her thighs) but she paid no attention because she was determined to get the perfect body.
Now that she came this close to dying, she says she wants to be the voice of reason in what could only be described as a hysteria for more surgical work. She even plans to leave the scars on her thighs as a reminder of what almost happened to her – yes, she is that determined to never go under the knife again.
Ironically, less than a year ago, the same woman didn’t just advocate for plastic surgery: she pretty much told anyone who would listen that it was the only way up on the social ladder.
“There are plenty of ugly women,” she said. “If you have the money, you can be beautiful. This pretty face you see here, my dear, it costs some.”
Apparently, it cost her more than she could have ever imagined. So, do you believe her? Did this glamor girl really learn her lesson or is she being a tad hypocritical because she knows she has no other means to earn a living now? Drop us a line in the comments with your thoughts.
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