The stories are becoming too familiar: Women ending up severely disfigured or even tragically dead after visiting backdoor plastic surgeons.
In this latest instance, a mother-of-two died after receiving butt implants from a Venezuelan “doctor”.
Suyima Torres was just 28 when she passed away in April.
Suyima reportedly visited Cuerpos Health and Aesthetics for a $1,500 procedure in which an oily yellow substance was injected into each of her butt cheeks, according to court documents.
A few weeks later she had another round of injections and felt dizzy right after. She died ten hours later.
She paid $2,300 in total cash for the injections.
Though her cause of death has not been determined, police are treating it as manslaughter connected to the unlicensed practice of medicine.
According to leading plastic surgeon Dr. Constantino Mendieta this story brings to light two epidemics that are a growing trend in cosmetic surgery.
