7. Dennis Avner American-born Dennis Avner, from Flint, Michigan
was referred to as the “Stalking Cat” after undergoing extreme body modifications to resemble
a tigress. The veteran-turned-programmer had been inspired, after talking to a Native Chief,
to “follow the ways of the tiger”, and started his transformation in his 20s. Spending exorbitant
amounts to achieve his look, he underwent a total of 14 surgical procedures paired
with extensive amounts of tattoos and piercings. These procedures included splitting his top lip,
pointing his ears, and getting silicone implants in his forehead and cheeks. Along with the body
modifications, his final look was complete with whiskers and a mechanical tail. His resemblance
to a feline garnered him a lot of attention and he was even recognized by The Guinness
Book of World Records for “most permanent transformations to look like an animal”.
Avner died in 2012, at the age of 54, and there was some speculation that he’d taken his own life.
6. Bethany McPherson
As lip injections had become wildly popular and as more and more of her friends sported fuller lips,
Bethany McPherson decided, in 2017, that she wanted them too. After doing some research and
reading reviews, the mother-of-two booked an appointment at a place an hour from her
home in Livingston, Scotland. Her practitioner was Tammy O’Brian whom she happily paid just over $200
for the procedure. In April, she went in for her first session but left unsatisfied after
a lump formed on her bottom lip. O’Brian had tried to smooth it out, but the two decided
that McPherson should return another time to get it fixed. Two months later, McPherson returned,
bringing along her boyfriend. To her surprise, O’Brian tried to correct the botched procedure by
injecting her upper lip. The results were worse and her boyfriend could hear and see her lip pop
out unevenly to one side. McPherson called off the appointment as her lip swelled and started to turn
black. Her lips continued to swell hours after she got home. She sent a picture to the beautician who
advised her to go to the emergency room. The plastic surgeons had never seen the likes of
it and warned her that she could have gone blind believing the filler had been injected
into an artery. After 4 hours of treatment, she was sent home to recover, only to return
weeks later. She had developed sepsis from an abscess in her lip and was hospitalized again,
this time for 2 weeks. Doctors warned her if she hadn’t come in, she wouldn’t have made it through
the night. After everything she’d gone through, McPherson said she’d still get fillers because
she thought they looked good. 5. Christina Burton
Manchester resident Christina Burton wanted fuller lips but, sticking to a budget, she opted for a 75
pound ($103) at-home procedure. Set up comfortably in her own home, the beautician started by
applying a topical numbing cream to her lips. The cream felt uncomfortable immediately, but the
beautician assured her the reaction was normal as numbness can feel like swelling. She was in pain,
but carried on and got 1ml of filler injected into her lips. For hours after the procedure,
her lips continued to swell, spreading to her nasal pathway and throat. She tried antihistamines
and painkillers, but the discomfort turned to fear as she started to struggle to breathe and swallow.
She called an ambulance who treated her at home for 45 minutes, stabilizing her with adrenaline,
oxygen, and a nebulizer. Burton stated she’d considered just going to bed before calling an
ambulance but then realized she would’ve likely died. Still massive by the time she got to the
hospital, her lips felt as if they had their own pulse and hung so heavy that she couldn’t
open her mouth. Released from the hospital the following night, Burton began sharing photos
on social media. One of her friends apparently vomited at the sight while many others assumed
it was an outlandish filter. When a professional plastic surgeon was referred, he was incredulous
that people get medical procedures done in their homes. Having paid only 75 pounds
($103), he heavily questioned what was in Burton’s fillers as a 1ml vial alone would be
at least 55 pounds ($75). Burton admitted to being tempted on multiple occasions to get them again,
but in the end, was too scared. 4. Oli London and Angelique “Frenchy” Morgan
Reality stars Oli London and Angelique “Frenchy” Morgan found each other
online through a shared obsession with plastic surgery and K-pop. While living in Korea, in 2013,
London was introduced to K-pop and was taken away at how “perfect” the artists appeared. He
developed a fixation for Jimin, from the group BTS, and became obsessed with becoming his exact
replica. After spotting Morgan on Celebrity Big Brother, London reached out to her and the two
bonded over their obsession with changing their appearance constantly. To look like their idols,
a Korean heartthrob and a life-size anime doll, respectively, London and Morgan spent a combined
$322,500 and went under the knife 24 times. To achieve what he calls his “complete makeover”,
London underwent 5 nose jobs, cheek and jaw bone reduction, chin surgery, liposuction
and eye surgery. Desiring his whole life to revolve around Jimin, he both wanted to look like
him and had a crush on him. It was so accentuated that London went on to marry a cardboard cut-out
of him, in Vegas, in front of an Elvis Presley impersonator, subsequently describing it as “the
best moment of his life”. Morgan admitted that at first, she had been quite jealous of the cut-out,
but that they grew to share it, claiming their obsession with plastic surgery had made their
relationship stronger, not harder. On her end, she had 3 procedures to her breasts, 2 nose jobs,
permanent lip filler, and numerous rounds of Botox. According to updates on their ongoing
obsession, Morgan said they planned to continue having surgery and that she was about to spend
$50,000 on 5 more procedures. 3. Amber Luke
Born with blonde hair and fair skin, Amber Luke, from Brisbane, Australia, hated the
way she looked growing up. She suffered from low confidence and depression until the age of 16,
when she gave herself an at-home tattoo. That first tattoo started a 9-year long
transformation where Luke took back control of her appearance through tattoos and piercings. She
spent over $120,000 on 600 tattoos, 13 piercings, plastic surgery, and multiple body modifications.
She had a butt lift, breast augmentation, 600 tattoos, 13 piercings, and had her tongue split
twice. Her most dangerous procedure, by far, was tattooing her eyeballs with blue ink. During the
procedure, the tattoo artist went too deep and Luke was left blind for 3 weeks. Changed to a
striking, unnatural blue, she believed her eyes to have been the most drastic change to her body.
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2. Allegra Cole
In 2018, 44-year-old social media celebrity and model Allegra Cole went on the popular TV
show “Botched” to even out her lopsided breasts. She admitted to self-inflating her implants with
saline solution until they grew to 4,600cc and weighed 20 pounds. But it was neither the size nor
the weight that bothered Cole as she was there to achieve symmetry and specifically asked Dr. Terry
Dubrow and Dr. Paul Nassif not to reduce them in any way. Cole got her first breast implants
at the age of 33. She started with 800cc s and remembered getting an onslaught of compliments
and a confidence boost. But 800cc wasn’t even close to the size she desired and she financed
her next set of implants by using a website where men offered to pay for the procedure.
Cole got another set put in, bringing her total up to 1,700cc. Despite waking up from
the surgery feeling like an “elephant” was on her chest, Cole admits the feeling made her feel good
and got what she refers to as “boob greed”. She wanted to do it again and go even bigger. Craving
more control over her breast size, she found a doctor with a solution that would allow her to go
bigger. The doctor gave her a tissue expander in which she could use saline solution to grow her
own implants. Within 5 months she’d more than doubled them in size to 4,000cc.
Describing them as “the cutest weight vest you’ve ever had”, she began to go to the gym regularly
to keep her upper body and core strong enough to hold them up. The more they expanded, the more
lopsided they became, but she managed to regain their symmetry and their 54-inch circumference.
While many referred to her case as an example of plastic surgery taken too far, Cole loved
her implants which earned her the attention of 1.4 million followers on social media.
1. Jordan James Parke Branded as “Britain’s Lip King'', Jordan
James Parke has had a staggering 50 procedures to plump his look. He gained recognition in 2015
when he went on Channel E!'s show “Botched” with leaky lip fillers. In an attempt to copy his icon,
Kim Kardashian, he spent over $170,000 on lip fillers, Botox, eyebrow tattoos, and laser hair
removal, over a 6-year period. On top of fixing his leaking lips, the self-proclaimed addict asked
for the doctors to give him a smaller nose despite admitting that he could barely move his face.
They refused, physically demonstrating how the procedure could hinder his breathing. In January
of 2019, Parke returned on Botched to try his luck once again. Doctors Paul Nassif and Terry Dubrow
were shocked at how much his face had transformed in just a few years. Parke ended up thanking the
doctors for advising him to ease up on fillers but then asked them if they could give him
liposuction and a fourth nose job. He attempted to persuade them by saying he was experiencing
breathing issues but acknowledged they were most likely caused by previous procedures.
To Parke’s horror, they told him more liposuction would likely make his stomach looser, and fixing
his nasal canal would require making his nose wider. Once again Parke was refused by the
celebrity doctors and was strongly advised against any future procedures. Not heeding their advice,
he later traveled to Turkey to get bum implants. What he got instead was breast implants which
ruptured, leaked, and caused a gaping hole in his backside. He was later diagnosed with
necrosis and was warned he likely would have died of sepsis had they been left in longer.
Still not put off, he decided to just book a different clinic for his second bum lift.
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