Number 8 Laudiane Fernandes
In May of 2021, a Brazilian woman opened up to the media about how a botched plastic surgery that was
originally meant to correct a birth defect had left her with a nose double in size. As a child,
42-year-old Laudiane Fernandes, from Alagoas, suffered from haemangiomas, groups of small
vessels that formed lumps under the skin in her eyes, scalp and nose. Fernandes suffered from
constant seizures and nosebleeds that placed her in and out of hospitals on a regular basis
until she was diagnosed in her teens. She then had several surgeries including one to remove
the haemangiomas from her nose. Unfortunately, after the procedure, the tissue became infected
and part of her nose collapsed, severely impairing her breathing. Surgeons repaired
it by grafting skin from the inside of Fernandes’ cheek which helped her with the breathing but also
permanently left her with a bulbous nose that was double in size. Even in her early 40s, Fernandes
revealed that she continued being bullied for her appearance. By then, however, she claimed
to have learned how to deal with the negative attention and was grateful for her health.
Number 7 Shari Machon
After a botched nose job, which she’d undergone in November of 2017, a beauty vlogger resorted
to using leeches to mend the damage. After being insecure about her nose since her teenage years,
Shari Machon opted for surgery instead of a party on her 40th birthday. She went under the knife in
April of 2017 and was reportedly satisfied with the operation for which she’d paid over $19,000.
Her surgeon then convinced her to have revision on the tip of her nose, in November of that same
year. It was after the second procedure that she experienced a lack of blood circulation,
resulting in a discolored and massively-swollen nose tip. The beauty professional fruitlessly
tried to conceal the deformity that, as she put it, had left her looking like “the toucan
on the Froot Loops cereal box”. Machon, who reportedly used to advise Oprah and Goldie
Hawn on their makeup routines, no longer felt confident to film her videos. After a few weeks,
she consulted Los Angeles-based surgeon Donald Yoo for a corrective procedure but was told that
another rhinoplasty would potentially cause more harm. Yoo proposed leech therapy instead. Machon
was skeptical at first but ultimately agreed to see a leech specialist. Once the worms were on
her face, she became more relaxed and even amused by the procedure. Machon saw major
improvements after only a few sessions, as the leeches had increased circulation by sucking out
the bad blood and releasing a coagulant. In the aftermath, she scheduled a rhinoplasty with Yoo.
Number 6 Victoria & Leah Parker
By 2016, British sisters Victoria and Leah Parker, aged 36 and 30, respectively,
had spent close to $30,000 on plastic surgery in a relentless pursuit of self-improvement that had
started more than a decade prior when both of them had gotten botched rhinoplasty procedures. They’d
decided on the surgery as a self-confidence boost after years of being taunted for their noses,
with some of the crueler remarks reportedly calling them “beaky”. Victoria, from Lymington,
Hampshire, first went under the knife in December of 2004 and recommended the same
surgeon to her sister, who had her procedure the following year. Around the same time,
in 2005, Victoria took the clinic up on its offer of free revision surgery and had a second nose
procedure to remove a bump she claimed had been missed on the first. Both women would be greatly
disappointed by the results. Victoria developed non-allergic rhinitis and further breathing issues
from an intermittently blocked nostril. Leah was left with a crooked nose, uneven nostrils and a
bulbous lump of cartilage at the tip. The sisters felt that their noses looked worse than before
and reported that they began having more plastic surgery as a way of softening the blow to their
self-confidence. In the years that followed, the enhancements came to include acid peels,
breast augmentation, orthodontic treatment, laser hair removal, fillers and semi-permanent
eyebrows. The plastic surgery took a toll on their finances and, according to the latest updates,
the Parker sisters were saving money for reconstructive surgery on their noses.
Number 5 Laura Avila
In October of 2018, a Dallas real estate agent died after a rhinoplasty, which she’d had at a
clinic in Mexico, went horribly wrong. 36-year-old Laura Avilla opted for the Rino Clinic, in Juarez,
where the procedure was less than a third of what she would’ve paid in the US. Her fiancé,
Enrique Cruz, travelled with Avilla and was by her side before surgery began. Complications
developed almost immediately as the anesthesia was administered via the woman’s spine. It travelled
to her brain instead of spreading throughout her body and she went into cardiac arrest.
Surgeons were forced to medically induce a coma to prevent further deterioration to her brain. Staff
initially didn’t let Cruz see his fiancée and told him they couldn’t continue the surgery because her
blood pressure had dramatically dropped. Avilla was held at the Juarez facility for four days.
Her family travelled to see her during this time and, according to Avilla’s sister,
they were nearly “held hostage” by the clinic when they’d refused to pay the full amount for
the botched surgery. The woman was eventually transferred to a university hospital in El Paso
where doctors confirmed that she’d suffered critical brain damage. Her family subsequently
made the decision to take her off life support and stated an intention of suing the Rino Clinic.
Number 4 Anastasia Balinskaya In 2021, a Belarusian Instagram influencer
and former reality TV star shared with her followers a 5-year-long struggle with a failed
rhinoplasty that had left her nose rotting from the inside out. According to Anastasia Balinskaya,
who’d at one point starred in the “House-2” reality show, her nose had swollen before the
tissue started decaying, following a reaction to an implant. Desperate to correct the issue,
29-year-old Balinskaya underwent several more procedures but each had left her in a worse
situation than the last. The final surgery split her bone and the bridge of her nose looked like,
as Balinskaya put it, she’d been “beaten in the ring”. She suffered from breathing difficulties
and, no longer concerned with aesthetics, only hoped that the functionality of her nose would
be restored. The influencer pleaded with her followers for help funding further treatment,
claiming that she could no longer afford it and wasn’t able get a loan in her native Belarus.
Balinskaya reported that doctors had told her she only had a few months before her
nose rotted away entirely. Number 3 Vincenzo Zurlo
After receiving Botox injections at the Millennium Anti-Aging and Surgery Center
in Doral, Florida, Vincenzo Zurlo decided to have rhinoplasty as well, on February the 15th of 2020.
The procedure was carried out by 56-year-old Alcalira Jimenez De Rodriguez. Zurlo woke up
in the middle of the surgery and even began asking Jimenez De Rodriguez how it was going,
a moment that he’d look back upon and reference as “I saw her face as she was ruining my
life”. He was disappointed and in pain as his nose had failed to heal properly leading to a
second operation with Jimenez De Rodriguez, in May of that same year, which was also unsuccessful.
After the two operations, which had cost him a combined $2,800, Zurlo was left disfigured,
with a lump near the tip of his nose. He became suspicious about the woman’s credentials
when Jimenez De Rodriguez prescribed him antibiotics and painkillers under a different
doctor’s name. Zurlo asked her for insurance information and a medical license number,
eventually contacting the authorities when she failed to provide the documentation. The
authorities and Florida’s Health Department began investigating Jimenez De Rodriguez
and an undercover agent was sent to the clinic posing as a client. They learned that she wasn’t
a real doctor and the police arrested her at the fraudulent clinic as she was in the middle
of performing surgery on another patient. She was charged with practicing medicine
without a license with the authorities considering elevating the charge to a second-degree felony,
given the disfigurement that Zurlo had experienced. In the aftermath, he was forced
to find another surgeon to repair the damage Jimenez De Rodriguez had inflicted upon him.
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Number 2 Catherine Roan In a 2019 interview with the BBC,
Scottish woman Catherine Roan revealed the ordeal she’d gone through after a botched rhinoplasty.
41-year-old Roan had chosen the Transform clinic, a plastic surgery industry leader in the UK,
and opted for Italian surgeon Antonio Ottaviani. Roan was disappointed by the initial result and,
over the course of four years, had three more revision surgeries with Ottaviani who’d promised
to shape her nose into the one she’d always wanted. Upon removing her cast, after the fourth
and last of the procedures, Roan’s nose was in a worse condition than ever. It was squint, a skin
fold was hanging down to the side and there were additional problems with the tip. By that time,
Ottaviani, a “fly in, fly out” surgeon, had returned to Italy. He offered to fix the nose,
upon being sent pictures of the shape in which it was, but Roan had lost confidence in him and
opted for a surgeon in England, with Transform agreeing to cover the surgery and expenses.
Upon reviewing her case, the specialist would compare her damaged nose to that of a car crash
victim. In the painful reconstruction, the surgeon used part of Roan’s rib and liquid from her scalp.
Five years after the initial botched procedure, the woman’s nose was fixed.
She sued Ottaviani and an expert report concluded he’d failed to adequately explain the risks
of three revision surgeries to her. Roan won the medical negligence action in court and Ottaviani
was ordered to pay her £100,000. According to updates on the matter, she’d only received 1%
of that sum while Ottaviani reportedly continued to fly in and work at private clinics in the UK.
Number 1 Mariela On E! Entertainment’s show “Botched”, in 2019,
a woman sought to have corrective surgery for a rhinoplasty that had been not only executed
poorly but also unwanted. The 41-year-old, who only identified herself as Mariela,
had opted for liposuction while visiting family in Peru. She went in for an appointment with a
well-known local doctor who told her that he could perform the surgery the very next day.
Mariela, then 19 years old, had only asked for slight liposuction on her stomach. However,
she woke up with bandages on her face and a new nose. She’d never wanted the procedure but the
doctor told Mariela he’d done her a favor. She never saw him again after the operation. Worse
still, upon removing the bandages, Mariela saw that the nose with which she’d once been happy
was badly damaged. Her nasal passages were severely inflated and her nostrils were almost
entirely closed off. It took decades for Mariela to trust another surgeon to fix the damage.
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