In 2013, Perth woman Courtney O’Keefe decided she would get breast implants, believing her weight-loss had made her breasts “look like pancakes”.
Courtney booked a trip to Thailand, then aged 24, with an Australian tour company alongside nine other women and booked her surgery for $7500.
Four years on, after a series of nearly-deadly infections, Courtney has undergone a partial mastectomy to ensure her health.
She is now a mum to a five-month-old daughter. But speaking to 9 News, the 28-year-old said her "cosmetic surgery nightmare" means she is unable to breastfeed her own child.
Courtney said as soon as she was wheeled into theatre at a Bangkok hospital, she began to feel uncomfortable, noticing that the operating room was "dirty".
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"A year later, after falling ill again, her breast implants were eventually removed".
You can't be serious. Surely that's the first thing that was done.
And can we all remember that cosmetic surgery is still surgery. Just because we give them these joking names, doesn't mean it isn't real.