💉 Botched: What BBL & Cosmetic Surgery Is Really Costing Women

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[00:00:00]Uh, I should also mention that I had lipo at the same time. So, this is more of a complication when there's a tummy tuck and lipo involved. So, um, what happened was it discolored. It turned into [music] a giant black scab. Um, when it started falling off, there was this is so gross. [music] There was a tunnel, like a cavity in the wound that was like 2 in deep by the time it was really teeny tiny. So, I had to go back to my surgeon and that's when they wanted to remove the necrotic tissue. So they removed it and I was left with [music] a gaping hole in the center of my incision that was 2 in wide by about 2 in deep. You know the inside my [music] stomach. I had to every single day pack the hole the stomach hole with gauze [music] that were soaked in a very strong antiseptic solution called tacon solution. It's literally made out [music] of bleach. There is literal bleach in it. It bleached my clothes and it gave me a chemical burn because I had to put it in my wound every day and then tape over I was literally taping bleach to my stomach.

[00:00:59]>> I went to Turkey and basically they did the arm lift. When I tell you like that guy slaughtered me. I was in a butchers, bro. Like that man treated my body like a butchers. He literally just sliced my arms. My scarring goes all the way into my armpit. So [music] when I was healing, my arms are literally raised like this. So let me give you an example. [music] So your arm, imagine my arm is like this big. He cuts the fat, excess fat off, pulls both skins together and stitches the skin together.

[00:01:30]But when he cuts, he cut all the way into my armpit. So like when I was sweating and all of that, I was sweating into [music] my stitches. Like it was healing was crazy. And now I have like these two long cuts on my arm. When I tell you like I've been wearing long sleeve, long sleeve, long sleeve, long sleeve, long sleeve, it's stressing me out.

[00:01:52]This is what I get, man.

[00:01:54]>> I can only smell from this side of my face.

[00:01:59]This side doesn't move. I actually can't feel my face at all on this side when I drink out of a straw.

[00:02:06]That's what I look like. I can't make half the facial reactions I used to be able to make. And I kind of hate it.

[00:02:13]Actually, I really hate it. And I don't recognize myself in the mirror. So, >> I feel like [music] a shell of the girl that I used to be. I feel like my eyes are soulless and my sparkle is gone. But like that surgery stole everything from me that I loved about myself. [music] All to trade it in for the body that I wanted. And the irony is again like [music] the irony is I miss my old body.

[00:02:36]And if I could go back in time and not get the surgery, I wouldn't have gotten the surgery. So yeah, that's where I'm at. And I wish I had a more positive outlook on this. I wish I had something, you know, more positive to say [music] about this, but I don't.

[00:02:50]>> Women have been told their bodies are projects, fixer uppers, things to be sculpted, nipped, tucked, and inflated until they match whatever shape the internet decided was perfect this year.

[00:03:02]And a whole industry built itself around that idea, charged a fortune for it, took pretty before and after pictures, and left out everything that came after the after.

[00:03:14]Heat. Heat.

[00:03:35]Here's [music] [music] how it starts. Not with a surgery, with a scroll. You're minding your business, living your life, and then the algorithm doing what it does best starts feeding you bodies.

[00:04:03]snatched waists, round BBLs, flat stomachs, perky everything. And it doesn't stop at one. It keeps going and going until somewhere around video 47, [music] your own reflection starts looking like a problem that needs solving. That's not an accident, honey.

[00:04:23]That's a feature. And the thing nobody tells you is that [music] what you're looking at is the 1%.

[00:04:29]the results that actually turned out right. And even those sometimes [music] don't stay right. The BBL that looks incredible at first but becomes a [music] full-time management project the second your weight shifts. The implants [music] that look great until they don't. And by the time they don't, you're dealing with symptoms your doctor will confidently blame on your anxiety.

[00:04:54]The women posting the complications, they exist. They're just not what the algorithm is choosing to show you. And while the algorithm is doing its job, somebody else is doing theirs. The cosmetic surgery industry doesn't run on passion, baby. It runs on demand. And demand has never been higher. When before and afters go viral, when celebrities normalize it, when your favorite influencer [music] is casually dropping her surgery stats like it's a skincare routine. The industry expands to [music] meet that moment, which sounds fine until you realize expansion means more practitioners, more med spars, more clinics in Turkey offering package deals and not nearly enough oversight standing between a woman's body and someone who genuinely should not be holding a scalpel because not all of these people are surgeons. Some of them are adjacent to surgical training.

[00:05:52]Some of them are in the general vicinity of a medical degree and some of them just decided [music] one day that this was their lane.

[00:06:00]>> The plastic surgery is shaking and this is a very serious story coming out of Atlanta, Georgia. A young lady got plastic surgery on her eyes and just supposed to be a little facelift. Well, she ended up getting [snorts] basically disfigured. There's a lot [music] to this story. Let's talk about it. Pictured above is Kayla Cannon. Kayla Cannon is 29 years old and since the age of nine, she's beginning surgeries on her eyes. Now, she's born with a birth defect to where she has no muscles under her eyes. She went to the Oculus Plastic Surgeon Center in Atlanta, Georgia, and saw a guy that they call the eye guy, Dr. Chip Cole.

[00:06:42]Now, this is Dr. Cole pictured above.

[00:06:44]I'm going to show more pictures of him and give you more information on him.

[00:06:48]But something that I think is very interesting about him is he is a plastic surgeon, but I don't think he's specifically trained to do these type of surgeries. And that's a situation they keep having in Atlanta. Somebody's a foot doctor and they in there doing teeth. You see what I'm saying? And I think that this man is facing a lot more lawsuits. They're flooding in [music] because he's allegedly dis disfiguring a lot of people.

[00:07:15]This other lady, she decided not to give her name or her information, but they said that she went to Chip getting a facelift from him. And that's what I'm saying. Are you the eye guy, the facelift guy, the nose job guy, the cheek guy? Who are you?

[00:07:30]Now, Kayla is in recovery, but during her procedure, she ended up getting an infection in her eye and an infection in her cheek. He kept going back and said that he would fix it. He actually tightened her eyelid too tight. And when she said it was too tight and it was pulling, it was not correct. He said, "I'll fix it. I'll fix it. Enough with the fix it. You're botching these people."

[00:07:51]So, I dug a little deeper and I said, "Chrissy, get into some deep research about this guy." And I started finding different health journals. He was even on Business Insider talking about this laser clear laser treatment. And it says, "Ooccupacial plastic surgeon Dr. Chip Cole discusses the ultra clear."

[00:08:08]Let's dig deeper into that. And I'm digging deeper because reading on this ultra clear showed me what this man is really there for. Money. He doesn't care about health. Let's read. Even better.

[00:08:20]You can head straight back to work or play after getting getting the laser clear surgery because there's no downtime at all. Does that sound right for a surgery? The recovery period is extremely brief, which makes it an ideal treatment to be done as 3 to five session series [music] for optimal results and continued maintenance.

[00:08:37]Occupacial plastic surgeon Dr. Chip Harvey Cole Harvey uh Harvey Chip Cole explained during an exclusive interview with Health Digest. [music] And somebody that's doing their research will go online and say Health Digest, that sounds like a reputable source to find out if this guy's legit or not. Many people, and I'm going to continue to read, many people receive only one treatment to obtain a glow for the weekend or a special event for the near future. While you may be able to go back and living your life after ultra clear trademark laser treatment, there's still a few things [music] that Dr. Cole advises patients not to do. Now, this bothered me because it's giving me oympic vibes. You know, when these people they do these ultra clear trademarks, they get kickbacks from these [music] companies and later you find out that this wasn't real. It was really opiates. Now, everybody's on oxycottton and you know the companies were getting a kickback from the doctors and it's all a scam. Now, I'm going to say allegedly because I don't want to get sued, but he's got a lot of lawsuits coming. A lot more people are they might be ashamed to drop their pictures, but these ladies were brave enough. They were brave enough to show their faces and said, "Look what this monster did to me. He's not the dag on eye guy. He doesn't need to be doing surgeries on anybody." Now, y'all see what I told y'all. His page is still up. If you want to leave reviews, I suggest you should leave him. If you've gone through something with Dr. Chip Cole, >> which brings us to Atlanta, Georgia.

[00:10:01]and a man who called himself the eye guy. Dr. Harvey Chip Cole ran a practice called Oculus Plastic Surgery. Eye procedures. That was the specialty.

[00:10:14]Except somewhere [music] along the way, the menu expanded. Faceel lifts, cheek lifts, lip lifts. Whatever you walked in with, he had a procedure for it. And if you didn't come in wanting something extra, he'd suggest it. His patients [music] attorney later described a pattern, recommending procedures people didn't need, then doing those procedures incorrectly. Kayla Cannon was 29 and had a legitimate medical reason to be there.

[00:10:43]Born without muscle function in her eyelids, a birth defect she'd been managing since she was 9 years old. She came to Dr. Cole for a real fix. She left with a cheek implant she never asked for. Eyelids pulled too tight.

[00:10:59]Infections in both her eye and her cheek and seven additional surgeries just to try to undo the damage he caused.

[00:11:08]Seven. She said he took her entire 20s from her. And Kayla was not alone. At least 11 patients have filed lawsuits against Dr. Cole. And here is the part that will actually make you put the phone down. The Georgia Medical Board renewed his license anyway in March while the lawsuits were active, filed for bankruptcy, lost his hospital privileges, not certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery, license renewed, two more years. The eye guy is still in business. Dr. Cole is the loudest example, but he is not the exception.

[00:11:50]>> Kani, you got your implants removed? I did. It's the best.

[00:11:54]>> How long did you have them?

[00:11:55]>> Like four years.

[00:11:55]>> Four years. You said it's the best thing. Why did you get them removed?

[00:11:59]>> They're making me sick.

[00:12:00]>> Like physically.

[00:12:01]>> Like physically, mentally, all the things are making me very sick.

[00:12:04]>> Really? Why did you get them?

[00:12:06]>> Um, I got them because I I [music] wanted them >> and I I was >> You wanted >> I won't even I think there was a misqued interview that said like I got them because everybody made me feel like I needed them. But really what it was is I me I was reading in the comments. There was a lot [music] of comments on how my body looked and how I remember it went viral. There was a video that was like, "Damn, Kelani is just built bad." And I was like, "Oh, shoot." And at the time I [music] was like 20. I think I was 22.

[00:12:32]And I was just not at a age where like I could see past what people thought about me.

[00:12:37]>> And I would have made a consultation. I was like, "This is going to make me feel better," you know? Right.

[00:12:42]>> And at the time, for a while, they were great. I loved [music] them. They did what they needed to do for my confidence. They, you know, made me feel awesome. And then I started having all these symptoms of like a woman like 30 years my like older than me.

[00:12:55]>> 30 years older.

[00:12:56]>> I started having symptoms that would have been like something [music] I shouldn't have experienced until I was like a lot older. And I went to a couple doctors and they couldn't [music] make it make sense. Nobody could figure it out. And then the naturopath doctor was like, "Wait, are your breasts fake?" And I was like, "Yeah." And he was like, "Have you ever [music] considered that you might have breast implant illness?"

[00:13:14]And I was like, "What is that?" And when I looked it up, there were all these stories. Mind you, I had never even heard about this.

[00:13:21]many stories [music] and and and stories of other celebrities, you know what I mean? That I'm like, how come I didn't know this about them?

[00:13:27]>> Like stories of them being like, I got them young, they started to [music] make me sick. What things from like hair loss to like memory loss, extreme depression, mood swings to like vitamin deficiencies that were unccured, like unable to bring the vitamin levels back to like bone loss and like bone sensitivity and like all these things that just didn't make any sense. And I was experiencing like all of them. You know what I mean? Like my whole lower half, my bones would just ache [music] all day. Like I was old like cra I would be literally like holding my legs. I to got to the point where I couldn't sleep without pain medication. Literally [music] as soon as I got them removed, everything went away.

[00:14:05]>> Wow.

[00:14:06]>> Every the when I woke up for a week straight without [music] body ache, I literally baldled hysterically. I was like, "Oh my, I have not felt what it feels like to live in a painless body in a couple years."

[00:14:18]>> You said you felt a turn around >> immediately.

[00:14:21]>> Immediately.

[00:14:21]>> Immediately. It was instant. Even my brain fog went away. I'm [music] talking like I couldn't I couldn't remember anything. And I would be walking around the house all day like what was I doing?

[00:14:33]Like what was I talking about? Like [music] my therapist was like, "I think you have a dissociative disorder." I'm like, "I'm really removed. like I can't connect to anything. Like all of that was coming from chemical changes in my actual brain that was being caused by these poisonous things in my body. This is what it looks like when a woman's body is sending every possible signal that something is wrong. And the people she's paying to help her decide they know better. Tingly fingers, brain fog, blurry vision, a chest that burns, an immune system quietly collapsing over weeks.

[00:15:09]And [music] every doctor she saw looked at the full picture and said, "Anxiety, not. Let's investigate.

[00:15:18]Not. Let's check the implant." Anxiety.

[00:15:22]Her implant was confirmed ruptured and they were still calling it anxiety.

[00:15:27]That's not a diagnosis.

[00:15:29]That's a dismissal.

[00:15:32]>> Another question that I have gotten many times is, "Do I have any regrets?" I have a lot of them and I'm going to tell you why. One of them, and I know you guys are going to be like, "What?" is the BBL. I really wish I never did it because as soon as you gain weight, that's the first place your fat is going to go to.

[00:15:56]Well, for me, um, I'm not really a huge fan of a huge booty on me because my frame is not too big, but my weight does fluctuate. Like, I can go from 160 to 189. I was 189 last year, but my butt got huge at one point to where I was kind of like, uh, I don't like this. So, I started to eat better and exercise, [music] but it's mainly your eating. Um, so I had to like control my eating because this thing was getting really big. Um, as of now it's not too bad because you guys can't really see. It's not too bad because my eating is kind of like pretty good right now, I can say. And I've been exercising, but if I don't, it's a wrap. This thing is real big. And to me, it looks unrealistic. Another thing I regret is getting lipo in my arms. Let me show you why.

[00:16:55]You see those two marks? Those are two lipo hoes. Like at first, actually, this one was a kloid. Um, but I've been going to the dermatologist and he's been like injecting I think steroids in them.

[00:17:09]Yeah, I don't know. He's been injecting something in them to make them smaller.

[00:17:13]But yes, those are my two regrets. So, lipo in your arms and a BBL. I personally recommend if you already got like a cute little bump back there, just just keep it. Like you don't really need nothing too big, but if you got like a super super, you know, flat butt and you just want something a little more voluumptuous, you go for it or whatever look you're going for. But for me, I regret it. Um, it's cute now, but guess what? If I was to eat Wingstop for a month and pancakes every morning and drink, it's nasty to me on me. It It just looks too much. So, yeah, talk to your doctor and see what they recommend.

[00:17:54]But those are my regrets. She was 30 years old [music] and had spent over $100,000.

[00:18:02]nose jobs, BBL implants twice, [music] brow lift, fat grafting, Botox, all before her 30th birthday. And she sat down and explained exactly why, not vanity, body dysmorphic disorder, a mental illness that convinced her there was always something wrong, always something fixable. And she found a way to pay for every single fix. multiple jobs, whatever it took. The industry was very happy to take her money every time, no questions asked. Because here's the BBL truth that never makes it into the sales pitch. That fat they moved is still fat. It grows when you gain weight. It shrinks when you lose it. The result you paid for is in constant negotiation with your body and your lifestyle. And the day you stop managing it perfectly, the body you bought starts looking like something nobody ordered.

[00:19:02]>> I [music] went to Turkey and basically they did the arm lift. When I tell you like that guy slaughtered me. I was in a butchers, bro. Like [music] that man treated my body like a butchers. He literally just sliced my arms. My scarring goes all the way into my [music] armpit. So when I was healing, my arms are literally raised like this.

[00:19:22]So let me give you an example. So your arm, imagine my arm is like this big. He cuts the fat, excess fat off, pulls both skins together and stitches the skin together. But when he cuts, he cut all the way into my armpit. So like when I was sweating and all of that, I was sweating into [music] my stitches. Like it was healing was crazy. And now I have like these two long cuts on my arm. When I tell you like I've been wearing long sleeve, long sleeve, [music] long sleeve, long sleeve, long sleeve, it stress them out.

[00:19:55]>> And then there are the women who went abroad for it. Turkey, Colombia, wherever the deal was too good to pass up. This woman went to [music] Turkey for an arm lift and came back with scarring that ran all the way into both armpits. She said the surgeon treated her like he was working in a butcher's shop. She has been in long sleeves ever since.

[00:20:19]Not a style choice, a consequence.

[00:20:22]>> Next, I regret having filler in my cheeks. Has been a nightmare to get it removed. Like, it's [music] taken so so long and my face has looked quite botched in the process. I just simply did not need it. Next, I regret having my eyebrows tattooed on. Look, I literally have to like paint over them with concealer every single day because you can see the tattoo. So regret having my lips tattooed on. Reason being is my lips have never been the same [music] since. They are constantly cracking and chapped. And apparently that is like literally a symptom of getting lip blush done. Also regret getting Botox just because I never needed it. Like I got it at like 20 years [music] old, which is just so ridiculous. And I completely lost the emotion in my face. I remember when I was on Big Brother, I did so well like on reality TV because I feel like they were just capturing my expressions in everything that I did. I was probably the only one that didn't have a frozen forehead. Not to say I won't be getting it when I'm older. I will definitely be getting it when I'm older. Next thing I regret is getting veneers. They're only on that tooth and that tooth, but if you can see with that, the discoloration keeps changing. Also, I didn't really do my research. [music] So, the guys that did it basically shave my entire teeth off, and I just watched like Indie Clinton get hers put on. [music] She didn't even have to shave her teeth. So, like, what was I getting done that I'm basically missing my teeth there? Last thing that I regret is getting hair extensions for so [music] long. I didn't realize that they were so damaging to your hair. Honestly, I was like, why does my hair not grow? Have them in now.

[00:22:13]So, that's so hypocritical, but [music] my hair is like so damaged. I wish I'd never got them in the first place.

[00:22:20]Anyway, like I'm nearly back to normal.

[00:22:22]I've worked so hard to reverse everything. The tattoos are being removed. Filler's gone. The boobs are out. I don't know. I'm feeling good.

[00:22:30]Love you guys. It rarely stops at one procedure. It starts with something small and then there's a revision and something to fix the revision and something to balance out the revision of the revision.

[00:22:43]Boob job. Cheek filler that took years to dissolve. Eyebrow tattoo she [music] has to paint over with concealer every single morning. Botox at 20 that flattened every emotion off her face.

[00:22:56]Veneers that required shaving her teeth to stubs first. Each one [music] made sense at the time. Each one came with a cost she didn't fully understand [music] until the bill had already been paid.

[00:23:09]And then there's this woman. So, it's been a while since I've talked about this, but since it was just exactly the oneear mark on February 28th, I wanted to talk about where I am now. So, last year, February 28th, after 15 years of waiting, I got a tummy tuck. A little bit of backstory there. I made several videos of this. I have it on a playlist, but little bit of backstory. Um, like 15 years ago, I lost a lot of weight. I was on medication. It made me gain a lot of weight. I was like 19. I lost the weight when I was 21. Um, and I kept it off ever since. Like, I worked out, ate healthy, I got, [music] you know, toned up. I built muscle. Um, however, if you have had a major weight loss, a pregnancy, and your skin didn't [music] bounce back, you know, there's nothing you can do about that. You cannot work that out. You cannot eat right [music] until it's gone. It's there. Um, so I waited 15 years to get a tummy tuck. Um, I got a breast lift at the same time and it was botched. I don't want to say botched because that like implies it's the surgeon's fault and I really don't blame the surgeon, but um, regardless, [music] I am left with a deformed stomach. 3 days posttop, I noticed discoloration along my incision line leading up to my belly button. Called my surgeon, went in immediately. It wound up [music] being necrosis. So, a part of my incision in the very, very front um, the skin tissue and fat tissue died. Uh, I should also mention that I had lipo at the same time. So, this is more of a complication when there's a tummy tuck and lipo involved. So, um what happened was it discolored. [music] It turned into a giant black scab. Um when it started falling off, there was this is so gross. There was a tunnel like a cavity in the wound that was like 2 inches deep at the time. It was really teeny tiny. So, I had to go back to my surgeon and that's when they wanted to remove the necrotic tissue. So they removed it and I was left with a gaping hole in [music] the center of my incision that was 2 in wide by about 2 in deep. [music] You know inside my stomach. I had to every single day [music] pack the hole the stomach hole with gauze that were soaked in a very strong antiseptic solution called Dacon solution. It's literally made out of bleach. There is literal bleach in it.

[00:25:14]It bleached my clothes and it gave me a chemical burn because I had to put it in my wound every day and then tape over it. I was literally taping bleach to my stomach. So after about [music] I don't know 3 months of that, it finally closed. It closed in like June and then it was just a waiting game. I had to have a scar revision. [music] Um it was not, you know, as invasive as a tummy tuck. It was done right in the office, local anesthetic. Um my stomach still deformed. This whole thing stole everything from me. Um I worked really hard on my body and my [music] mind to get to a place where I was happy with what I looked like. Um, even though I hated having stretch marks [music] and loose skin, I was in good shape and I was happy maybe for the first time in my life with how my body looked. [music] Um, the tummy tuck was supposed to be like this is my moment, right? Um, that insecurity that I felt having those stretch [music] marks and loose skin held me back in almost every aspect of my life. I felt like a walking catfish.

[00:26:08]Like I only liked how my body looked in clothes. Having this happen after you've had such high hopes, [music] even though I had my expectations in check, I knew this wasn't going to solve every problem. However, I also knew that it would help. Um, it didn't. I [music] feel awful. I miss the girl that I used to be before the surgery happened. I miss my old [music] body. Feel like I'm in a stranger's body because, yeah, my stomach is kind of flat, but it's also deformed at the incision line. Um, what people don't tell you about when you get lipo or tummy tuck in your stomach is that the fat doesn't go there. It goes to other area. So, I feel like a linebacker because my arms are so big now. Um, I lost all of my motivation for working out because I was so severely depressed and terrified [music] through this ordeal that I just didn't give a [ __ ] And I also was scared to work out because [music] I was scared for the wound. I So, I have mental health issues. I have OCD. I have ADHD. [music] I am terrified of wounds. And this wound was the worst wound I've ever seen. And it was on my own body. Um, it kept [music] me in the house for so long that now I don't want to leave the house.

[00:27:04]It's not like I don't [music] want to leave the house. I do, but I can't. Um, my social anxiety is at an all-time high. I've never felt this way before. I cry every day because I miss who I used to be. I don't feel like the same person anymore. I underwent a transformation.

[00:27:18]Not the kind that I wanted, not the physical transformation, not the butterfly. I am mentally forever changed from this experience. [music] And um, I know down the line I'll probably be able to look back and say, I'm so much stronger. I learned so much from this.

[00:27:31]But right now, I didn't want to learn this lesson. I didn't want this transformation. and I just wanted to be happy and confident in [music] my body.

[00:27:39]And now I am looking at having to do another scar revision. And um this time I'm going to go back under because my breast lift didn't take [music] and I'm going to do an augmentation. I'm just letting more time go by so it can you know heal a little bit more to get the best result. If you are considering cosmetic surgery, please know that things can go wrong. There can be complications for healthy [music] people. I'm a healthy person like relatively speaking. I do have a chronic illness. I have chronic nausea and vomiting unrelated whatsoever. I to the surgery like to the complication. I did blood work. I did all the testing. It was fine. But complications can happen to healthy [music] people. I was 36 when I had the surgery. I was a healthy 36-year-old woman who worked out, ate healthy, [music] and I still had this complication. It happens to about 3% of people who get tummy tucks. I still don't know how to cope with this.

[00:28:25][music] I have like severe PTSD from the whole experience. I feel like a shell of the girl that I used to be. I feel like my eyes are soulless and my sparkle is gone. But like that surgery stole everything from me that I loved about myself. All to trade [music] it in for the body that I wanted. And the irony is again like the irony is I miss [music] my old body. And if I could go back in time and not get the surgery, I wouldn't have gotten the surgery. So yeah, that's where I'm at. And I wish I had a more positive outlook on this. I wish I had something, you know, more positive to say about [music] this, but I don't.

[00:29:01]>> 36 years old, healthy, no risk [music] factors, did her blood work, followed every instruction, waited 15 years before she finally went through with it. 15 years of working out [music] and eating right, everything short of the one thing surgery could give her. So she did it, planned it, saved for it, got the tummy tuck. Three days later, the skin along her incision started to change color.

[00:29:32]She called her surgeon immediately. It was necrosis.

[00:29:36]The tissue had died. And when the dead tissue was removed, what remained was a 2-in wide, 2-in deep open hole in the center of her stomach.

[00:29:47]Every day for 3 months, she packed that hole with gor soaked in a bleachbased solution. It burned her skin on contact.

[00:29:56]It destroyed her clothes. She was literally taping bleach to her own body every single morning to manage a wound that a voluntary surgery created. But the physical horror wasn't even the worst part. The worst part was what happened to her inside. She stopped leaving the house. She cried every day.

[00:30:17]She said she didn't [music] recognize herself anymore. Not because of how she looked, but because of who she had become in the months since the surgery.

[00:30:25]She said the operation took everything she loved about herself and left her with nothing she asked for. She called herself mentally forever changed. And the way she said it, you believe her.

[00:30:38]Nobody is here to tell you what to do with your body. That is genuinely your business. But there is a [music] difference between a choice you made and a choice the algorithm nudged you into.

[00:30:49]Between a surgeon who sees a patient and one who sees a price tag, between understanding the full risk and being handed a brochure of only the good outcomes.

[00:30:59]The before and after wall in that consultation room is real. It's just not complete.

[00:31:06]It is not showing you the revision, the infection, the hole, the long sleeves in July, the woman who got exactly what she asked for and woke up missing the body she had before she asked for it. This industry will not show you those pictures on its own. So sometimes it's the women themselves sitting down in front of a camera, no ring light, no filter, saying, "Here is what actually happened to me." When they do that,