WARNING, GRAPHIC IMAGES: Jade Tyler, 31, from Essex, is warning other people to be careful after she booked a botched surgery in Turkey. She was left with one boob after her money makeover went wrong
A woman who spent £5,000 on a “mummy makeover” says she was left with a 50p-sized hole in her breast which smelt like “rotting meat”.
Jade Tyler, 31, from Braintree, Essex, wanted to change her “saggy boobs” and “mummy pouch” so jetted off to Turkey, for a group of procedures. The mum of five flew out to Istanbul alongside her nephew for support on January 4.
She booked a boob job, tummy tuck, Brazilian butt lift, and liposuction and underwent a nine-hour surgery on January 5. However, she suspected that something went wrong after the operation. But despite complaining that she was in pain, she was reassured at the clinic that it was normal.
However, after arriving back in the UK, she noticed that her boobs turned “green and yellow” and said her nipple went “black”. She said that all she wanted was a “brand new body”, but instead endured a “nightmare”.
No medication or treatment helped, and eventually, doctors said their last move was to remove the implant – along with almost all of her right breast tissue. Jade spent four months with just one breast before she could get a new set of smaller, lower-risk implants.
Jade, a stay-at-home mum, said: “After my last child, I was overweight, had a ‘mummy pouch’, and had saggy boobs. I decided I wanted to go to Turkey to get my old body back. But the whole thing was one big, agonising nightmare and I’m still not happy with how my body looks.
“I wish I’d never done it. It felt so important at the time but I look at old photos and feel sad now. I see now that having a perfect body isn’t important – my message is to love yourself the way you are.” Days after her surgery, Jade’s wounds from her breast implantation began to bleed and her right breast swelled up. Regardless, she was discharged and flew home – and Jade got in touch with a local UK breast clinic seeking help.
She was put onto a drainage pump to remove the building fluid. But things took a turn – culminating in her full breast being removed. She said: “It got all green and yellow and my nipple was black. I was going to get my wounds re-dressed every week but it got worse.
“The bottom of the boob was dripping with fluid, and loads of pus started coming out. The skin began to split and then my breast tissue was literally falling out of the bottom. It was hell. The smell was the most awful thing – like rotting meat – and nothing seemed to help.
“Several appointments later, they said there was a risk of sepsis and the implant needed to come out – along with almost all my breast tissue.” Instead of getting back her pre-pregnancy body and a full, perky bust, she was left with just one boob. Jade said UK clinics refused to touch her because of the work that had already been in Turkey.
She was left so embarrassed that she spent months stuffing her bra on one side with a fake breast, and wearing baggy clothes to hide it. She said: “The effect on my mental health was terrible – I felt so depressed. Even doing the school run – I’d have to remember my keys, phone and fake boob.”
But it left Jade feeling so insecure she ran out of options – besides going back a clinic run by the same company that did her surgery – to go under the knife for a new corrective pair of implants. She said: “I desperately didn’t want to go back – but I looked down at my chest and thought ‘I can’t live like this’.”
After travelling back to Istanbul on October 21, she had a surgery to remove her existing implant and get a new set. She was warned larger implants would cause issues again – so she had to get C-cup implants – leaving her the same size as she started. Jade now wants to use her experience to warn other women not to go under the knife – and instead to “love yourself”.
She said: “I was worried I would die at points throughout this journey. I knew there were risks but I thought it wouldn’t happen to me, until it did. The whole thing is one massive regret, I look back at my before photos and cry because I miss my old body.
“My message is just love yourself the way you are – I look back and realise getting the work done wasn’t important. I have my children and I need to be there for them – and I nearly wasn’t. I wish I had never gone in the first place – now I’m just happy to be alive.”
