A Brazilian model who once vied for the title of the country’s most beautiful backsides has been left physically scarred through botched plastic surgery that nearly claimed her life.
New pictures have been released of Andressa Urach, 27, the Brazilian bombshell who finished second in her nation’s 2012 Miss BumBum contest, that show the state her legs were left in.
The gruesome pictures, released by picture agency The Grosby Group, show severe scars and wounds on her body as she lies in her hospital bed. Her condition was so serious she almost needed to have her left leg amputated, the group said.
But after spending most of December in the hospital she is finally on the road to recovery.
She began to realize her health was in danger in the middle of last year when she began to feel a negative reaction to hydrogel fillers doctors injected into her upper legs to fill out her thighs and lift her butt.
She started feeling a lot of pain as her body did not absorb the injections. Instead her body tissue began rotting away, the agency said.
The physicians tried to drain the injections, but discovered her leg became infected and she was rushed to the Conception Hospital in Porto Alegre in late November.
The infection had spread throughout her body and she risked having organ failure, reports the Brazilian news outlet Globo.
The situation at the time appeared dire as her mother Marisete De Faveri pleaded for the public to pray for God to cure her daughter’s condition.
But she has fought through several medical procedures, including blood transfusions, and her family is optimistic of a recovery, the outlet reported.
Urach was released from the hospital on Christmas Eve and on New Year’s Day released a statement on her Instagram page wishing her fans a good year.
The model, who was spotted walking around last summer’s World Cup in her home country wearing nothing but body paint, has received much attention for her gorgeous looks and has made many public appearances including hosting a Brazilian television show.
Claims she had an affair with soccer superstar Cristiano Ronaldo, which the Real Madrid star denied, also provided her with much fame.
But she was not satisfied with her body and has undergone nine medical procedures in her young life, reports the Mirror. The operations included a nose job, a Bioplasty facial correction, jaw reduction, breast enlargement, liposuction and vaginal lip reduction.
However, she appears to have changed from this experience.
In her message, she told her supporters that she has learned not to take things in life for granted and to live in the moment.
“Enjoy the Lord, His word and all you love! So, a toast and come 2015. it could not go better….In the presence of God with my family thanking life!” she wrote.
