Monica only wanted fuller lips. 💉
But what they injected was not medical filler: it was liquid industrial-grade silicone, loaded with bacteria that no one detected in time. Within days, her face doubled in size and the pain became unbearable. The contaminated silicone caused severe vascular occlusion that completely cut off circulation and oxygen to her lips. The tissue, without blood to keep it alive, began to die.
To stop the infection and save her life, the surgeons had no choice: they amputated two-thirds of her entire upper lip. There were 20 reconstruction attempts, all unsuccessful, until her case reached E!’s Botched, where doctors Dubrow and Nassif used skin grafts from her shoulder and tissue from inside her mouth to reconstruct her lip from scratch. 😳
