JUSTIN JEDLICA: With my implant design and
body modifications it’s much more about making myself completely, exceptionally different
from anyone else.
JUSTIN JEDLICA: Hi my name is Justin Jeldica. I am 36 years old; I live in Los Angeles,
California. I work as a beauty broker and custom implant design specialist and I am
known in the media as the Human Ken Doll.
JUSTIN JEDLICA: So tomorrow I am going to have a surgery that has taken me 2 years in
planning. I’m having a revision on my latissimus implants - those are the wings on your back.
And I'm having my teres implant, one of them moved just for symmetry and then I’m also
having one of my forehead veins cut, tied off and bladed. I had my first latissimus
procedure about two years ago and I was the first person in the world to ever embark on
an augmentation to their back.
JUSTIN JEDLICA: So I conceptualised the surgery. I designed the implants. Everything healed
well; it just ended up being a little bit big. So this is an exact replica, a sample
of the implant that will go into my back just tomorrow. I probably have to put myself at
around 550 cosmetic procedures. As far as full-on surgeries, I think this is going to
be surgery number 36. For me I look at this as being an art form. I really genuinely enjoy
the design process. This surgery tomorrow is costing me $21,000 total including the
implants. With this additional $21,000 I have to be at $560 something thousand dollars at
this point so -
JUSTIN JEDLICA: My friends are amazing with my plastic surgery actually. I think they
enjoy the fact that it’s a little bit of being non-conformist and speaking out against the
typical norms of what western culture dictates as beautiful.
DRAKE JAMES: What are they doing different on this implant?
JUSTIN JEDLICA: It is going to be thinner like all this is going to be half as big.
So it is not going to look so bulky right. Yeah. And then underneath here will be a little
bit bigger but really this is all, this will all be smaller. They going to move this piece
up higher and then they’re going to take out the one forehead vein again and then they blade it.
DRAKE JAMES: So it’s not going to grow back again?
JUSTIN JEDLICA: I don’t know, the middle one came back!
DRAKE JAMES: You’re like a Marvel comic superhero.
JUSTIN JEDLICA: I know, I know. It just heals so fast.
DOMINIC LEF: You know before meeting Justin
I didn’t know what to expect, for him to be such a genuine and kind person. It’s
been really cool getting to know him because someone having all that surgery, he is still
a regular person that you would know on the street every day.
JUSTIN JEDLICA: So no, so this next procedure is going to be like 21,000.
DOMINIC LEF: Oh wow, you’re investing in yourself though babe.
JUSTIN JEDLICA: I know, I just feel the same way.
DOMINIC LEF: I know. JUSTIN JEDLICA: I feel the same way.
ASHLEY RYAN: I know that, he just wants to
look his best and look a certain way and have a certain image and so I am here to support
him as a friend.
DRAKE JAMES: His body heals like extraordinary than most people do. I am excited to see what
else he is going to do in future.
JUSTIN JEDLICA: I know obviously we get a lot of looks and stares and criticisms. We
kind of laugh it all off. It’s sort of like, you know, if the haters keep hating then I
stay famous. I become more famous. So at the end of the day my friends all stick by me.
JUSTIN JEDLICA: I am excited that today is
the final day of my back implant surgery, should be a rather easy surgery for me, not
so easy for my doctor but I am looking forward to getting in there.
JUSTIN JEDLICA: I am not really nervous to
be honest. I have done this like so many times. My mom is my biggest fan she is always been
really, really good at not judging me. I mean as a kid with my first plastic surgery it
was a bit difficult for her, but over the years she has come to an acceptance of the
fact that body modification is my passion.
TANYA MARSIK: It’s hard to see your son go under general anaesthesia and you never
know what is going to happen, but he picks the doctors and he is very selective, he is
very smart in what he does. Do I ever fear that he might take it too far? He has already
taken it kind of far. I never thought it would go this far.
TANYA MARSIK: Ready?
JUSTIN JEDLICA: Yup. I’m set. Implants in tow.
DR. LEIF ROGERS: Good Morning!
JUSTIN JEDLICA: How are you? Good to see you!
DR. LEIF ROGERS: Nice to see you. Alright you ready for this?
JUSTIN JEDLICA: Yeah.
DR. LEIF ROGERS: So we have to make our same
incision as before which is back here, you heal very very well, but you can see where
your scar is. We just go in here, right back to the same pocket. We get this one out. We’re
going to put the new one in that is redesigned, which we both spent months and months redesigning.
JUSTIN JEDLICA: A year and half. DR. LEIF ROGERS: Yeah, ok.
JUSTIN JEDLICA: A year and half. DR. LEIF ROGERS: Ok.
TANYA MARSIK: You are in good hands I know.
Good luck I will be praying for you.
LADY: Alright Justin, go into the operating room now.
JUSTIN JEDLICA: Bye.
LADY: We are here. JUSTIN JEDLICA: Ok.
LADY: Go straight ahead.
JUSTIN JEDLICA: I just had lipo on my ass two days ago, it’s sore!
JUSTIN JEDLICA: This is my favourite bed to sleep in.
JUSTIN JEDLICA: I don’t know, it will be exciting to see how everything comes out if
it goes according to plan.
DR. LEIF ROGERS: So there is the implant and as we talked about, this may come out in pieces
cause it is such a large implant. Get in the scope up this way. It is just going to be
a piece of it, I think. No, That is the teres implant. That is the teres - yeah. That is
our old implant there it is, it’s out! Let us see what his back naturally looks like.
It is pretty flat and there is not much going on there.
DR. LEIF ROGERS: Ok, so now. So this is our
replacement teres implant.
DR. LEIF ROGERS: Hold the arm straight up.
This is when it would be nice to have longer fingers!
DR. LEIF ROGERS: It actually feels nice and
flat. It is. Great I like it. It looks a little lumpy bumpy. It is in the right spot. Ok Good.
Alright, so that one is in. Now we’ve got to put in the big one. I’m already sweating!
DR. LEIF ROGERS: We operated on him about
2 years ago. We put implants in to make his latissimus muscles bigger. It had never been
done before, it went well but he felt they were a little bit bigger than they should
have been. So we took them out today and put in totally redesigned implants and it went
very well. It was a little bit challenging because he has so much scar tissue from previous surgeries.
MAN: All right all set. So we are finished. DR. LEIF ROGERS: So we got both implants - big
implants in. We got the small implant on the other side. Everything is closed up. I have
bladed those vessels on his forehead. We are done. The redesign worked well. The little
suture tabs and adhesion points were exactly where I needed them to be. So I was very pleased.
DR. LEIF ROGERS: So how are you feeling?
JUSTIN JEDLICA: A little groggy, a little pain under my arm. Looking horrific but on
a scale of One to Ten, it’s a Five. Thanks babe I appreciate it.
DR. LEIF ROGERS: I’m excited to see you all healed up. Of course we didn’t put in
any drains. JUSTIN JEDLICA: Yeah, they said that.
DR. LEIF ROGERS: I don’t think it will because I mean last time we didn’t and we did ok.
This time there is much less to heal. JUSTIN JEDLICA: Ok cool.
DR. LEIF ROGERS: Ok cool, alright? JUSTIN JEDLICA: Thanks I appreciate so much.
JUSTIN JEDLICA: I love the ability to be able
to design and brand my body. I never thought I would be able to live in West Hollywood
in a multimillion dollar home and I attribute a lot of that to the confidence and self-esteem
that I got from plastic surgery. I chose to look a specific way and it may not be the
way everybody else thinks as typically beautiful, but I find it beautiful and that’s really
all that matters at the end of the day.