10 Celebs Whose Plastic Surgery Almost Killed Them!
July 20 2016, Published 10:02 a.m. ET
These stars went under the knife for bigger breasts, but woke up with much bigger problems! Click through these slides to see who had to remove their breast implants due to near-fatal complications.
Crystal Hefner, 30, claimed that her "breast implants slowly poisoned her."
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Hugh Hefner's wife revealed that she started feeling fatigued with pain in her neck, shoulders and bladder years ago, but attributed her symptoms to Lyme disease. But after more research, she removed her implants on June 15 to combat her "breast implant illness."
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Yolanda Hadid, 52, also suffers from Lyme disease and made the decision to have her breast implants removed on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.
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"Ten years ago I fell and ruptured my implant, so I had that replaced," she explained on the show. "And now 10 years later they found free-floating silicone, so I'm going to have everything removed, the implants and all the free-floating silicone in my chest area. This is a procedure that just makes so much sense. This seems to me all of a sudden more clear than anything."
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"Hopefully this is the answer," she added. "It's not going to cure my Lyme disease but it's gonna change my immune system, it's going to give my body hopefully the opportunity to cure 80, 90 percent of it and I can go back to living some sort of a normal life."
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Stephanie March, 41, got a breast augmentation in August 2014, but removed them two years later after contracting a near-fatal infection.
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"I had a hole in my breast for six weeks while I blasted my body with antibiotics," she wrote in her essay for Refinery29. "I had the implant put back in. I had another infection and rupture on Christmas Eve. I had it taken out again. I had more cultures and tests and conversations with doctors than I care to recall…the problem wasn't something anyone could have prevented or predicted," she explained. "It was that I am allergic to implants. Plain and simple. My body did. Not. Want. Them."
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March has since had her implants removed.
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Glee actress Heather Morris, 29, revealed to Fitness magazine that she had her breast implants removed because "her chest was always sore."
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"It hurt a lot, and I didn't like always being in pain," she explained in the 2011 interview.
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Tara Reid, 40, infamously has a history of botched breast surgeries. Her 2004 breast augmentation and liposuction resulted in deformed nipples and rippled skin.
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"First of all, I asked for big Bs, and he the doctor did not give me big Bs," Reid said in 2006. "He gave me Cs, and I didn't want them. At all."
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"Right after the surgery, I had some bumps along the edges of my nipples, but the doctor said, 'don't worry, it's going to be better,'" she explained. "But after six months it started to get worse and worse."
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Nicole Eggert, 44, also had a bad boob job — but Dr. Terry Dubrow was able to fix hers on TV! He removed her DD-sized implants on Botched, and replaced them with B-cup sized implants.
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Sharon Osbourne, 63, admitted in 2011 that she had to have her implants removed after they started leaking.
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Reality star Heidi Montag, 29, removed her F-sized implants due to back and neck problems — and numbness in her arms — in 2013.
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Another MTV reality star, Shauvon Torres 31, was forced to leave The Real World/Road Rules Challenge: The Ruins after popping her implant in the ocean!
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DWTS contestant Melissa Gilbert, 52, removed her implants due to health concerns as well.
