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Two pregnancies left excessive skin on Liliana Fragozo\u2019s stomach and breasts, and the 40-year-old Colombian woman from Bogota wanted to restore her pre-pregnancy figure. She found her plastic surgeon through a friend\u2019s recommendation (the same doctor who had operated on Lorena Beltr\u00e1n). During the consultation, her doctor recommended she have an abdominal lipectomy, breast implants, laser lipolysis (a non-surgical procedure that essentially melts fat), and belly button reconstructive surgery.<\/p>\n
Fragozo, a devout Christian, noticed a bible on the doctor\u2019s desk and found it comforting that her surgeon was also a Christian. Her doctor told Fragozo he would give her the highest-quality implants imported from the United States and that they would last a lifetime without needing to be changed. \u201cHe said I would be a beauty queen and I\u2019d have my body back from before the pregnancy,\u201d said Fragozo.<\/p>\n
Prior to the surgery, Fragozo inspected the operating room where she was to have the surgery. It consisted of a single room on the second floor of a downtown skyscraper. Fragozo thought this was bizarre, but wasn\u2019t deterred because the surgery space didn\u2019t resemble a backroom \u201cgarage\u201d clinic either.<\/p>\n
Her operation was scheduled for 8 a.m., and Fragozo waited alone for three hours before her surgeon arrived. Just as Fragozo was about to leave, he stopped her and convinced her to stay. He said his tardiness was due to traffic after a surgery he was performing earlier that morning in another town.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe arrived with a suitcase, and when he opened the suitcase it was full of his surgical tools,\u201d said Fragozo. \u201cThat seemed strange to me because they\u2019re supposed to be sterilized and they were in his suitcase wrapped in tape.\u201d Fragozo told her doctor that she wanted to leave, but the doctor was insistent that she stay. Fragozo had the operations.<\/p>\n
\u201cI left the surgery totally mutilated,\u201d said Fragozo. \u201cI didn\u2019t know how to move. Once I saw myself I asked, \u2018What did you do to me?\u2019 because I\u2019m a very thin girl and I had enormous breasts.\u201d Around two weeks later, Fragozo could feel the edges of her left implant against her chest muscles. \u201cThis breast was much larger and was incredibly painful,\u201d she said, pointing at her left breast. Fragozo met with her doctor again, and he assured her everything was normal. Her breast still swollen and deformed, Fragozo made a second appointment and the doctor told her the breast was enlarged because she was lactating. He prescribed her medication that cost 200,000 Colombian pesos (around $100). The medication didn\u2019t work and Fragozo didn\u2019t stay in contact with her doctor after that.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you have a surgery, you imagine that you\u2019ll have the perfect body,\u201d said Fragozo. \u201cI spent eight months in complete torture. I couldn\u2019t be intimate with my husband, and I couldn\u2019t look at myself in the mirror and see my large, deformed breasts.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fragozo consulted with a reconstructive surgeon, who informed her that implants lasting a lifetime don\u2019t exist, and that the highest-quality implants needed to be changed every 10 years. She decided to undergo surgery with her new surgeon to have her implants changed.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey showed me the photo of my breast without the prosthetic. It was horrible,\u201d said Fragozo, her voice cracking. \u201cMy breast was destroyed. I didn\u2019t have a mammary gland. The prosthetic severed my muscles.\u201d Her first surgeon had put one of the implants in backwards. Her reconstructive surgeon also told her that her first doctor had used the cheapest implants from China.<\/p>\n
Fragozo\u2019s implants were round on the top side and flat on the bottom. Implant numbers are printed on the flat bottom. When her reconstructive surgeon opened her breast, the numbers were apparent from the top.<\/p>\n
\u201cThank God the reconstructive surgery went well. He tried to fix the irregular borders on my nipples. However, the left nipple is larger than the right, and he couldn\u2019t recuperate the sensitivity,\u201d said Fragozo. She will need to have her implants changed every 10 years and wears a compression bra.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou don\u2019t know what is happening to you on the operating table. You don\u2019t know if they\u2019re treating you with respect,\u201d said Fragozo.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s not worth it to risk your blessings, your family, your home and your emotional stability for unscrupulous people.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Liliana Fragozo’s reconstructive surgeon found that an implant had been put in backwards, as the implant number should appear on the flat bottom.<\/p>\n
Click on the image to scroll through Fragozo’s photos.\u00a0<\/p>\n
(Photos | Liliana Fragozo)<\/p>\n
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