Woman warns of cheap boob jobs after her breasts exploded following surgery

A WOMAN has warned of the dangers of cheap cosmetic surgery after she nearly died when her breasts exploded following a boob job.

Dennie went under the knife at the Atlas Kliniek in Miese, near Brussels. Picture: Facebook

A 24-year-old UK woman has warned of the dangers of cheap cosmetic surgery after she nearly died when her breasts exploded following two botched boob jobs abroad.

Dennie Lees paid AU $5000 to have her breasts increased from 34A to 34F at a Belgium clinic after a friend recommended them.

She claims that days after going under the knife at the Atlas Kliniek in Miese, near Brussels, on September 2 last year she suffered a fever and her breasts burst.

She was rushed to Sandwell Hospital in West Bromwich, West Midlands, UK, where doctors told her she had blood poisoning.

Surgeons then operated on her the next day to remove the 800CC breast implants.

The first surgery left Lees with blood poisoning and the corrective surgery left her with a second infection resulting in an uneven chest. Picture: Snapper

She complained to the clinic, run by Belgium Surgery Services, who offered to perform a second implant operation for free.

She agreed and returned to the clinic last week when she went under the knife again to have the breast implants fitted again.

But when she returned to the UK last Friday she felt a “ripple” sensation in her left breast and drove herself to hospital.

When doctors opened the stitches they discovered it was infected and she was transferred to City Hospital in Birmingham where she had the implant removed.

She has now been left with an uneven chest after she decided to leave her right implant in when medics told her it was healthy.

Lees, who lives with her boyfriend Ed, 26, in Great Barr, Birmingham, said: “It was

about nine days after the surgery and I felt a ripple when I was walking.

Lees is now considering taking legal action against the Belgian clinic and says ‘I wish I’d have had them done here now and I shouldn’t have gone back there for them to ‘fix’ them’. Picture: Snapper

“At first I brushed it off but I woke up the next day with the worst fever I had ever had.

“I took my sports bra off and it just gushed out, it was like a tap, it was disgusting.

“I was so scared. My mum and boyfriend took me to hospital still with fluid pouring out of my breasts.

“They rushed me through A&E and I had about five or six doctors around my bed hooking me up to all kinds of monitors and drips.

“It turned out I had sepsis and the nurse told me if I hadn’t have come in when I did I would have died during the night.

“The first thing the next morning I was back in theatre having my breast implants removed.

“I woke up with drains still removing all of the leftover fluid. I was in hospital for about five days but I think I cried the whole time I was there.

Despite the ordeal Lees is still determined to go under the knife again to have her left breast enlarged to match her right one. Picture: Facebook

Then Lees had to endure it all for a second time.

“After I went back to Belgium last week to have the surgery done again, as soon as I landed on the plane back in England I felt a ripple in my left breast.

“Rather than going home I came straight back to hospital and when one of the doctors opened the stitches it poured with puss.

“I had an operation to remove the left implant on Tuesday so now I have one enhanced breast and one ‘man boob’.

“I’m hoping to be allowed home soon but I definitely won’t be leaving the house anytime soon.”

Delivery driver Lees now wants to raise awareness and issue a warning to young women who are considering going abroad for cheaper surgery.

She added: “I’ve wanted boobs since I hit puberty. I was blessed with a fat body with A-cup boobs.

“I wish I’d have had them done here now and I shouldn’t have gone back there for them to ‘fix’ them.”

Despite her nightmare ordeal Lees is still determined to go under the knife again to have her left breast enlarged to match her right one.

She is now considering taking legal action against the Belgian clinic.

Lees added: “I haven’t had a sorry. I do want to sue them but I am still in hospital so I want to get home and decide what action to take next.”