The ex-wife of former Arsenal star Andrey Arshavin has revealed her nose transformation after a flesh-eating disease caused by botched surgery left it deformed.
Former model Alisa Kazmina, 41, has shown off what her nose looks like after a series of nine operations to repair the hole the disease left in the centre of her face.
Kazmina, who married Russian winger Arshavin in 2016, watched in horror as her nose rotted away as her immune system turned against her own body and began eating away at her face.
A shocking time-lapse video released by his medical team shows his miraculous recovery from a hole in the middle of his face surrounded by a flap of flesh that returned to normal over a period of months.
Kazmina’s ordeal began in 2020 when necrosis started affecting her nose after a series of cosmetic surgery procedures.
The ex-wife of former Arsenal star Andrey Arshavin has revealed her nose transformation after a flesh-eating disease caused by botched surgery left it deformed (pictured)
Former model Alisa Kazmina (pictured above before she contracted the flesh-eating disease), 41, has shown what her nose looked like after a series of nine operations to repair the hole left by the disease in the centre of her face.
Kazmina, who married Russian winger Arshavin in 2016 (wedding pictured), watched in horror as her nose rotted away as her immune system turned against her own body and began eating away at her face.
Within a year, she stopped posting on social media and went into hiding as her nose was eaten away by flesh-eating bacteria and terrifyingly turned into a rapidly growing hole.
The mother-of-three, whose youngest daughter Yesenya was fathered by her footballer ex, said her ordeal began when she noticed her nose had started to droop, but she was still so depressed following her divorce from Arshavin in 2019 that she ignored it.
Instead of going to the hospital, she called cosmetic specialists who treated it as a simple infection, but instead of curing it, the hole grew bigger and deeper.
But in May 2020, she said non-cosmetic doctors had diagnosed her with “autoimmune necrosis” that caused her body’s natural defenses to turn against themselves.
Some doctors who spoke to Russian media at the time speculated that Kazmina’s illness could be granulomatosis with polyangiitis, formerly known as Wegener’s granulomatosis, a rare multisystem autoimmune disease.
It damages the walls of blood vessels, causing destruction of surrounding tissues and can be fatal.
Others said Kazmina could also have been suffering from a “rare fungus.”
In 2021, Kazmina, a journalist, said her “beautiful face was mutilated by the disease.”
Amazingly, the necrosis that had eaten away at his nose was now just millimeters from his brain.
Amazingly, the necrosis that had eaten away at his nose (the hole seen in the photo above) was now just millimeters from his brain.
Kazmina previously explained: “I had surgery to disinfect the necrosis. It was an emergency, time was running out. The destruction reached the sphenoid sinuses, almost to the brain.” Although the surgery saved her life, it left her with little more than a flap in place of a nose and a single hole to breathe through (pictured)
Now, the surgeon says, Kazmina faces a new series of three more operations to re-sculpt her new nose (pictured above).
BEFORE: Kazmina is pictured above before a flesh-eating disease left a hole where her nose used to be.
AFTER: Kazmina is pictured above after a series of nine surgeries to repair her nose.
Kazmina previously explained: “I had surgery to remove the necrosis. It was an emergency operation, time was running out. The destruction reached the sphenoid sinuses, almost to the brain.”
Although the surgery saved his life, it left him with little more than a flap for a nose and a single nostril to breathe.
She said that after a five-hour operation, her nose was completely clean and there was no bone tissue, cartilage or mucus left.
Reconstructive surgery expert Dr Denis Agapov then conducted a series of operations to restore her nose.
Taking tissue from his forehead and cartilage from his ears and ribs, his medical team painstakingly reconstructs his face piece by piece.
Dr Agapov said in a Telegram post: ‘The most challenging part of my work was restoring the soft tissue cover, which was almost completely absent.
‘Skin flaps were taken from the nasolabial folds, along with ear cartilage, which was transplanted with the skin.
“Several surgeries were performed, some successful and some not. At one stage, we lost almost everything due to the inflammatory process.”
Now, the surgeon says, Kazmina faces a new series of three more operations to re-sculpt her new nose.
Dr. Agapov explained: “We are currently refining the “somewhat rough” structure into a delicate and beautiful feminine nose.”
In the comments of the post, Kazmina thanked the doctor saying that he “gave her a chance to live again.”
Dr Agapov explained: ‘Currently, we are refining the ‘somewhat rough’ structure into a delicate and beautiful feminine nose’ (pictured: Kazmina with her deformed nose after one of the surgeries)
Kazmina’s reconstructive plastic surgery on her nose resulted in an amazing transformation.
Kazmina (pictured now after the series of surgeries) was married to Arshavin from 2016 to 2019, after which the former Arsenal player was ordered to pay £3,350 in child support each month for their daughter Yesenya.
Arshavin scored 31 goals in 144 appearances for Arsenal between 2009 and 2013 before returning to his boyhood club Zenit St Petersburg.
Kazmina was married to Arshavin from 2016 to 2019, after which the former Arsenal player was ordered to pay £3,350 in child support each month for their daughter Yesenya.
Arshavin scored 31 goals in 144 appearances for Arsenal between 2009 and 2013 before returning to his boyhood club Zenit St Petersburg.
He has been a member of Zenit’s executive board since 2023 after serving as the club’s Deputy General Manager for Sport Development following a period in an administrative role at Zenit.
While Arshavin was living in London when he played for Arsenal, he was in a relationship with famous Russian TV presenter Yulia Baranovskaya, with whom he has three children.