A 20-year-old British woman who underwent a series of cosmetic procedures in Turkey says she nearly died after contracting a rare flesh-eating bacterial infection.
Isabella Crawford, a make-up artist from Newcastle, secretly flew to Turkey in February after contacting a popular plastic surgeon who recommended she have a “mummy makeover” – including a tummy tuck, breast lift, Brazilian butt lift and liposuction – despite not having any children.
Speaking to ITV, Isabella said she had low self-confidence and wanted to “try and fix how I felt” after being influenced by numerous online adverts she received for cosmetic surgery abroad.
“It wasn’t an image I was trying to achieve, I just felt really bad inside,” she said.
‘I thought going to a place like that would make me happy, because on social media that’s what they tell you.’
Make-up artist Isabella Crawford, 20, from Newcastle, said she suffered complications after undergoing cosmetic surgery in Turkey earlier this year.
Isabella says she woke up to find she had been left disfigured by a botched surgery.
Isabella recalled when she woke up from her procedure with surgical wounds.
After contacting the anonymous surgeon, she said he recommended “a surgery that was quite difficult for a 20-year-old girl to perform.”
“I told myself that he knew what he was doing,” adding that “he was very naive and I trusted him.”
Isabella was put to bed at 9am and was not returned to her room until the afternoon.
“I don’t know where I went, who touched us or what happened.”
But Isabella woke up to find that she had been disfigured due to a botched surgery.
He recalled waking up with surgical wounds and several bags attached to his body that were filling with blood.
“I was blue and black,” she said, adding that it felt like “an experiment to see how far you can push your body.”
Just days after her surgery, Isabella flew back to the UK, but said she spent the entire flight in the bathroom as blood and fluid oozed from her open wounds.
“I thought, ‘I’m going to die on this flight,'” he said.
Once she got home, Isabella’s mother, who thought she had been on a girls’ trip, rushed her to the hospital, where she was treated for a rare flesh-eating bacteria and severe open wounds.
“The nurses in the ward couldn’t believe that someone could perform that many surgeries at once,” Isabella recalled.
“I was blue and black,” she said, adding that it felt like “an experiment to see how far you can push your body.”
Isabella had several bags attached to her body that were filling with blood.
But despite wanting to change her appearance, Isabella now regrets going to extremes to “feel better about myself.”
“Don’t be fooled. There’s so much more to life than just being beautiful,” Isabella said through tears.
Her story comes just after it was reported yesterday that a British woman is currently stuck in Turkey after suffering serious complications from botched cosmetic procedures, including two bouts of sepsis.
Cennet Lo, 28, a mother of one, flew to Bodrum in April to receive a tummy tuck, liposuction and a Brazilian butt lift.
However, four months later, she remains in Turkey recovering after her cosmetic procedures went catastrophically wrong.
Since her first surgery a few months ago, Lo has had to undergo four major surgeries to remove skin infections.
But even corrective surgeries have caused Lo distress.
Isabella now regrets going to extremes to ‘feel better about myself’
She claimed that after contracting sepsis for a second time, she underwent surgery to close the open wound, but when she woke up she discovered that her surgeon had performed a new tummy tuck on her without her consent.
He also recalled how dead tissue was removed from a wound without any anesthesia.
The number of complications arising from cosmetic surgery in Turkey has been increasing, as procedures such as these tend to cost significantly less than in some Western countries.
According to the Foreign Office, 28 Britons have died after undergoing cosmetic surgery in Turkey since 2019.
Meanwhile, according to the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (BAAPS), the number of people needing hospital treatment in the UK after cosmetic surgery abroad has soared by 94 per cent in three years, from 57 in 2020 to 111 in 2022, with 124 cases so far this year, with procedures carried out in Turkey accounting for more than three-quarters of those in the past six months alone.
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