‘Being beautiful is not worth dying for’: Make-up artist, 20, SOBS over ‘mummy makeover’

A 20-year-old British woman who underwent a string of cosmetic procedures in Turkey says she nearly died after contracting a rare flesh-eating bacterial infection.

Isabella Crawford, a make-up artist from Newcastle, secretly flew to Turkey in February after getting in touch with a popular plastic surgeon who recommended she have a ‘mummy makeover’ – which included a tummy tuck, a breast uplift, a Brazilian butt lift and a liposuction, despite not having any children.

HOW SHE ALMOST DIED

Speaking to ITV, Isabella said she was low on confidence and wanted to ‘try to fix how I felt’ after having been swayed by numerous online ads she received for cosmetic surgery abroad. 

‘It wasn’t about an image I was trying to achieve, I just felt so bad inside’, she said. 

‘I thought going somewhere like that would make me happy, because on social media that’s what they tell you’. 

After getting in touch with the unnamed surgeon, she said he recommended ‘quite a bit of surgery for a 20-year-old girl to receive’. 

‘I just told myself, he knows what he’s doing’, adding that ‘I was just really naive and trusted him’. 

Isabella was put to sleep at 9am and was not returned to her room until the early evening. 

‘I don’t know where I went, who touched us, or what happened.’

But Isabella woke to find that she had been left disfigured from a botched surgery. 

She recalled waking up to surgical wounds and various bags attached to her body which were filling up with blood. 

‘I was black and blue’, she said, adding that she felt like ‘an experiment to see how far the body can be pushed’. 

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SHE FEARED ‘THE WORSE’

Only a few days after her surgery, Isabella flew back to the UK, but said she spent the entirety of the flight in the toilet as blood and liquid poured out of her open wounds. 

‘I thought, I’m going to die on this flight’, she said. 

Once she made it home, Isabella’s mother, who thought she had been away on a girls’ trip, rushed her to the hospital, where she was treated for a rare flesh-eating bacteria and severe open wounds. 

‘The nurses on the ward couldn’t believe anyone would perform that amount of surgery at once,’ Isabella recalled.