10 Worst Plastic Surgery Disasters

While plastic surgery is supposed to fix someone’s appearance, these are ten worst plastic surgery ever happened in history.

Hang Mioku

Hang Mioku is an example of plastic surgery gone wrong. She is a 48-year-old woman living in South Korea. She began undergoing her first plastic surgery when she was 28 years old and became so addicted to it eversince. Many plastic surgeries have been done, resulting on her face is no longer recognizable by her surroundings. Her face became larger and deformed, and surgeons did not want to perform any more plastic surgeries on her. Moreover, surgeons said that her addiction to plastic surgery is because of some kind of psychological disorder. Knowing that not any surgeons wanted to re-fix her face, she ended up “performing it by herself” by injecting cooking oil into her face. It didn’t take long for her becoming a nation-wide news-maker as she was featured on television. Fortunately, many people took pity on her and sent in some money and donations for her undergoin some more plastic surgeries to fix her outlook. As surgeons want to handle this job, several sessions of plastic surgery are done, removing 60 grams of unknown substance from her face and 200 grams from her neck. Her face became significantly back to normal size, but scars were still left and hard to be repaired.

Jocelyn Wildenstein

She might have been recorded as a woman who spent the highest amount of money to have cosmetic plastic surgery—and making it a plastic surgery disaster. She spent approximately US$ 4 million over several years. Before making her nickname, “The Bride of Wildenstein”, Jocelyn was actually a pretty woman, a nice-looking mom of two children, and a wife of a rich art dealer. But, things gone wrong after she caught her husband cheated on her by having an affair with a Russian model. Instead of divorcing her husband, she came up with an idea to get her husband back to her by making over her appearance—by doing plastic surgery. However, not only that the plastic surgery gone wrong, she was also left by her husband.

Michael Jackson

I think we all have known what plastic surgery disaster that Michael Jackson had. More than ten times nose surgeries made him so much different, at least compared to how he looked in the 70s. Rumor said that he had also some kind of psychological disorder due to his addiction to celebrity plastic surgery.

Pete Burns

Dead or Alive, the British band that is famous for their song “You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)”, had its frontman enter the world of celebrity plastic surgery. Pete Burns, then a former member of the band, had many polyacrylamide injections to his lips, followed by some other plastic surgery procedures like cheek implant, nose reshaping, and tattoos. He admitted that in just eighteen month of plastic reconstructive surgery (that gone wrong), he wiped out his lifetime savings.

Dennis Avner

Different from others who undergo a plastic surgery to fix their appearance, Dennis Avner has undergone an extensive plastic surgery to make he looks like his animal: a tiger. Transdermal implants (to wear whiskers), tattoos, subdermal impants (to reshape his face), and teeth reshaping made him look so much similar to tiger. There he got his nickname, “The Catman”.

Eric Sprague

This one is also ridiculous. Eric Sprague was known as the Lizardman after he underwent a plastic surgery that splits his tongue just like a reptile. Born in 1972, Eric has made himself beyond everyone’s imagination by impersonating reptile so closely via plastic surgeries. He had done 700 hours of tattooing, 5 Teflon horns implantation under his eyebrows, a teeth reshaping to make his teeth looks like sharp fangs, a split tongue, and a stretch on his earlobes.

Donatella Versace

Dontalla Versace is not only known as the sister of Gianni Versace—the owner of Versace, one of the biggest fashion brands in the world—but also by her significant change after her undergoin a plastic surgery that gone wrong. Nose reshaping, which was supposed to make her nose looks smaller, eventually enlarged her nose after several years. It turned to be wide, flat, and crooked. Besides her nose, her large lips—that was made after a celebrity plastic surgery—showed that she might have been using collagen. She might also have undergone facelift, seen from her firm skin. Perhaps, she might also have had Botox to decrease her wrinkles. Breast implants? Might be; it could be seen from her weight loss.

Jackie Stallone

Jackie Stallone was famous because of several reasons. First, she was the mother of actor Silvester Stallone. Second, she claimed that she can predict the future by having a discussion with dogs and open up a hotline that gave advices for the callers. Third, she had several celebrity plastic surgery on almost every part of her face—face lift, eye brow lift, cheek implant, nose surgery, and lip surgery.

Amanda Lepore

Countless surgeries had not only make Amanda Lepore, once known as Armand Lepore, have different appearance, but also put her on the top list of world’s most famous transexuals. Her first plastic surgery was when she was 15 years old, and in the last year of her high school, she had her sex reassignment surgery to change her from male into female.

Michaela Romanini

She is a famous Italian socialite. Just as many other cases of plastic surgery that gone wrong, she was abused with lip collagen when she was 40 years old before undergoing several more plastic surgeries that end up as just plastic surgery disasters.

Introduction to Vaginoplasty

Vaginoplasty is a medical term referring to a plastic and reconstructive surgery to the vagina and its mucous membrane. Vaginoplasty is required on some medical conditions like the absence or deformity of vulvo-vaginal structure because of sexual disease or other genetics problem. Sometimes vaginoplasty is performed for aesthetic purposes. While vaginoplasty scopes only some kinds of cosmetic reconstruction and correction of vagina, neovaginoplasty scopes the procedures of construction or reconstruction of the vulvo-vaginal structure, either partially or entirely. Vaginoplasty is also known as vaginal rejuvenation, cosmetic vaginal surgery, or aesthetic vaginal surgery. The goal of vaginoplasty varies, from increase the function of the vulvo vaginal structure, to reshape the vagina for aesthetic purposes, or to heal diseases or symptoms happened on the vagina due to daily activities, sex, or others. Mostly, the general procedure of a vaginoplasty is lifting the skin of vulva and vagina. It is done by cutting off excess vaginal skin and retightening the soft tissues and muscles around the vagina. Labiaplasty is a plastic reconstruction surgery around the labia to decrease or reshape the small lips (called labia minora) outside the vagina. Sometimes, labiaplasty is combined with vaginoplasty. This surgery is called vaginal rejuvenation. After performing this plastic and reconstructive surgery, a person could still doing sexual activities with opposite sex although sensitivity could be a little bit decreased. Menstruation and fertilization are also possible, as long as the uterus and ovaries function normally. Even vaginal childbirth is also possible.

In case of sex reassignment surgery, vaginoplasty is more to be undergone by transwomen regarding to their physical sex transition. A longer period of recovery (about six weeks) is needed to allow sexual activity after surgery and to have a good sensation in sex. The biggest difference in performing vaginoplasty to transwomen is to dilating the vagina. The vaginal stent is then cut off several days after surgery, and after that, the vaginal dilation is started. It requires a complete set of dilators for every dilation took place, and each of this tool has an increasing size. Smaller dilators are used for the first or the second week (or sometimes the fourth week) for several times. Then the size of dilators used increase once per day, every other day, once in a week, until the largest-sized tool is used. This frequency is sometimes used rarer, especially for trans women who perform vaginoplasty. But, the important thing is the time spared between each dilation (or more specifically, the time after surgery) has too be short enough to decrease any difficulties in re-dilating. Vaginal dilation is important in vaginoplasty, because it allows the patient to do sexual intercourse. Vaginoplasty also requires some reshapement to the dimensions of the vagina, including the depth (Denonvillier’s Fascia), diameter (the Levator ani muscle), and narrowness—especially in transwomen.

To reshape vaginal and vulvo-vaginal areas of the patient, autologous (patient-derived) tissue from the patient is also used. Other tissue that can be used for this surgical procedures are the oral mucosa, the skin flaps, the skin grafts, the vaginal labia, the penile tissue, the penile skin, intestinal mucosa, and scrotal skin. It is also important to clear the follicles from the skin graft (if it grows hairs), usually by electrocauterization, by depilating it intra-operatively, or by manual hands. There are many different procedures of vaginoplasty, but mostly what is discussed here is the general procedure of it. Some advancement of vaginoplasty also exist, regarding to current technologies.

Sex Change Plastic Surgery

Sex change, or sometimes called sex reassignment therapy, is a medical procedure to change sex from male to female or female to male under a genitalia surgery or any other sexual reassignment surgeries. Sex change is usually undergone by transgender people or intersexual people, specifically children. The larger definition of sex change is scoping not only the medical procedures associated with it, but also the whole process of changing roles and responsibilities in life. This affects the life of the person undergone the procedures, since it gives impact to the surrounding and people around him or her. That is why, confirming sex change as just a medical procedure to change sex is an inaccurate approach because it ignores the social and legal impact.

Human sex change

In fact, sex change is more specifically defined as sex change in humans. This refers to sex reassignment surgery that people may undergo in certain conditions. However, many people see “sex change” or “sex reassignment procedure” from an inaccurate definition. Biologically, human sex is determined by four factors: chromosomes, gonads (ovaries or testicles), hormonal status, and primary or secondary sex characteristics. In a sex reassignment procedure to make a male to female or female to male, not all those four factors can be changed. Chromosome is the main thing that cannot be changed because it is inherited. Ovaries or testicles can be removed, but cannot be replaced one to another. Hormonal status is dynamically changed. Only primary or secondary sex characteristics can be changed, but it is only until a certain boundaries.

By this condition, changing a male genitalia into a perfect and excellent female genitalia with a good function is complicated but still possible. However, changing female genital anatomy into a functioning, good male genital anatomy is also complicated, but hardly succesful.

Before undergoing a sex reassignment surgery, the patient must be under a period of feminization or masculinization, regarding to what gender he or she wants to be. This is commonly two years before the sex reassignment surgery, just like what is ruled by the Standards of Care for the Health of Transsexual, Transgender, and Gender Nonconforming People. In this period, some synthetic or natural hormones like estrogens, androgens, progesterons, and antiandrogens are used. Counselling is also compulsory to start the body changing hormones. In this counselling, a period of full days living in the target gender for at least six months is also accomplished.

Natural sex change in humans

Not only via sex reassignment surgery, sex change in humans also happened naturally. Some specific medical conditions can result to sex change. This is can be seen after a long period of a lifetime. So, a human who is born and appears of one sex can transforms into the other sex after a long period. Female to male sex change is mostly happened in this natural sex change, because of either 5-alpha-reductase deficiency (5alpha-RD-2) or 17-beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase deficiency (17beta-HSD-3). Meanwhile, male to female sex change is a rare occurence and still can not be understood well by experts.

Genetic females (with two X chromosomes) with congenital adrenal hyperplasia lack an enzyme needed by the adrenal gland to make the hormones cortisol and aldosterone. Without these hormones, the body produces more androgen, a type of male sex hormone. This causes male characteristics to appear early (or inappropriately).

The lack of certain enzymes can also cause in a natural sex change, although not an obvious one (but only by appearance). Females (with two X chromosomes) with congenital adrenal hyperplasia (or lack of enzyme for the adrenal gland to produce hormones cortisol and aldosterone) can show male characteristics and appearance early and inappropriately because the body will produce more androgen, which is a type of male sex hormone. In the other hand, males (with one X and one Y chromosome) with androgen insensitivity syndrome (AIS) is not sensitive to androgen. It results to the person showing an entire or partial characterisitic of a woman. AIS sometimes include other diseases like Reifenstein syndrome which cause men to develop breast on their chest.

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Celebrity Plastic Surgery Gone Wrong

It is widely known that in order to always appear young and nice, actors and actresses often do some celebrity plastic surgeries onto certain parts of their bodies. The surgery is not a hard task for plastic surgeons, but still in some pretty bad luck, the celebrities may have experienced bad result from the surgeries they had. Celebrities listed below is maybe only ten from so many others who had their plastic surgery gone wrong.

Tara Reid

Tara Reid is probably known for her acting in American Pie as a high-schooler named Vicky. But, after having a liposuction and breast implantation in 2004, she may not look as a young sweetheart as she was used to be. The procedure went wrong, as her breast leaves scars and her belly looks ripply and bulgy—just like what she said in an interview to The View. It is not what she really expected at the first place. Fortunately, she did a reconstructive plastic surgery in 2006 and everything came back on track. Public knew that it went well after in 2009 she posed for Playboy, showing off her reconstructive surgery result.

Donatella Versace

It is not the first plastic surgery that Donatella—best known as the vice president of high quality fashion trademark Versace—had since the 1990s; it’s the umpteenth. But she never feels good with the result of every surgery she had. She once did a plastic surgery procedure to her nose as well as her lips, but this swollen spot always appears every time she had a surgery. No real photographs or proofs have ever been published to media, but it is obvious that she has never been satisfied by the surgeries.

Jocelyn Wildenstein

Plastic surgery is, of course, costy. And Jocelyn Wildenstein—now an active socialite living in New York—knows it very well. In 1997, or right before she ended her 20-year marriage, she had her first plastic surgery. Media reports that she spent approximately $4 million for the surgery specialized to facial plastic surgery, including cheeks implants and facelifts. Not only then she was well-known as the “Bride of Wildenstein” for the result of the surgery she had, but also a “cat woman” mockery thrown at her. It is because, now that she has tauter face shape, she appears more like a cat.

Kelly Bensimon

Media attacked Kelly Bensimon, or the true housewives of New York, in 2008 because of her misshapen breasts, the result of some celebrity plastic surgery she had. Harper’s Bazaar knows her mostly as a former model and an “ambassador for wool”—which is more to be a rumour rather than a fact—but now public and law enforcer knows her more as a woman with a screwed-up things of copyright infringement and domestic violence. And she also had no chance to do any reconstructive surgeries suggested for her better appearance.

Jennifer Grey

This is the proof of how the appearance of an actress could make a big impact to her career. Jennifer Grey was used to be the darling of romance film makers, but her different outlook—after doing some plastic surgeries including a rhinoplasty, whose results are actually not pretty bad—just eventually casted her out of the big screen and relocate her to television flicks.

La Toya Jackson

Of course we know that she is the member of the Jackson family, and we also know how screwed up his relationship with Michael Jackson was, but a thing that rumor has: that plastic surgery is perhaps something inherited from the family. La Toya may have undergone some plastic surgeries to her chin, cheek, and pointy nose—just like any other members of the family have. And like the family itself, we like to call it the real celebrity plastic surgery (that gone wrong)

Tori Spelling

Beside facial plastic surgery, breast deformation is another kind of plastic surgery that many celebrities—especially woman—have done at least once. Not to mention Tori Spelling, the star of Beverly Hills, 90210. It becomes news when media attacked her for her misshapen breast—including an obvious chest depression—but she refused to admit. She sued her doctor because the plastic surgery gone wrong, actually, and denied any rumors saying that she underwent a breast augmentation. But, in 2008, finally she admitted two things to Entertainment Weekly: (1) that she did some prosedures to “had her boobs done” in her 20-or-so; (2) that she did what every woman in Hollywood did.

Lara Flynn Boyle

No one has a clear information what the 39-year-old star of the long-running The Practice, Lara Flynn Boyle, has done to her face, but some photographs from the paparazzi make a speculation that Lara has udergone some celebrity plastic surgery onto her cheek. She smiles differently since. A worse speculation said that she did an upper lip implant, too, but out of all the facts, she apparently looks different in 2008’s Law & Order.

Scott "Carrot Top" Thompson

If you are to make such a top celebrity plastic surgery mishaps, Scott Thompson is absolutely the one that you can’t miss. Anthony Youn, MD, a plastic surgery expert as well as a blogger, said that this comedia may have done a series of plastic surgery (that gone wrong), including eyebrow life, Botox injections, lip plumping, and laser peels. The instant disappearance of freckles on his face and his sudden muscular posture (probably as effect of steroids use) is an obvious proof.

Mickey Rourke

Mickey Rourke has never been appeared so differently before. The star of The Wrestler as well as a retired boxer, Mickey Rourke makes public confused with his awkwardly reshapen appearance after some plastic surgeries gone wrong, including a facelift (obviously seen from the scars next to his ears), an eye lift, and some hair transplantation—which experts said has the “ability” to continously moving forward along his hairline.