Ever heard of it? Well, there was the guy who gave himself rhinoplasty with a chisel and inserted a chicken bone to replace the cartilage he’d removed, the woman who cut open her own tummy to do a tummy tuck, people who try to glue their ears back or iron – literally – the wrinkles off their face.
And who could forget the Korean woman who ran out of money for silicone injections and decided to use cooking oil instead. As in she filled a syringe with cooking oil (you know, like Mazola or Knife) and injected it into her face.
Because everybody wants to look like Jocelyn Wildenstein, right? The poster girl for plastic freaking surgery. *shudder*
These poor crazy nitwits don’t need surgery. They need to be bundled up in a straitjacket and sent to the loony bin.
Couple of weeks ago, I read about Discountmedspa.com, a site that sold injectable facial fillers and chemical peels it promoted as containing a “mystery” ingredient. Right. There are even videos on the website showing you how to self-inject – just stick the unsterilised needle in here, there and over there! Nothing to it, folks!
The site has recently been shut down and the budding entrepreneur behind it, a Laurie D’Alleva, has since been arrested. Because obviously, all of the women who’d been insane enough to buy from her had discovered that, gasp, not only did the injectables not work, they produced horrific side-effects too! Like third-degree burns, hard lumps and bumps, bacterial infections … duh.
In fact, one of the customers whose entire face became inflamed after injecting herself with god-knows-what, was on record saying, “My first reaction was, why did I do this? I’m a relatively intelligent woman!” Honey, if you’d been even mildly intelligent, you wouldn’t have done this in the first place.
