Woman, 20, bullied over her weight dies after Turkish surgical procedure

A 20-year-old girl who tragically died after a botched weight-loss operation in Turkey after years of being bullied for her weight posted a tragic TikTok days earlier than the damaging operation, saying: ‘My final put up earlier than weight reduction surgical procedure – see you on the opposite aspect.’

Morgan Ribeiro, 20, had flown to Turkey together with her boyfriend for a £2,500 gastric sleeve operation earlier this month as she did not need to be positioned ‘on an NHS ready listing for years.’ 

It is the newest tragic instance of calamitous overseas beauty surgical procedure and Morgan’s mom has referred to as for extra authorities intervention to coach across the harmful surgical procedures saying ‘she by no means needs this to occur to a different daughter.’

The process occurred on January 5 and three days later she was given the all-clear to fly house together with her boyfriend James Brewster, 19, nevertheless on their return flight to Gatwick, Morgan turned significantly unwell and went into septic shock. 

After the airplane made an emergency touchdown in Serbia, it emerged that Morgan’s small gut had been reduce in the course of the gastric sleeve process, resulting in an an infection. 

During the operation, surgeons eliminated over 10cm of her small gut however tragically Morgan suffered a coronary heart assault on January 9 and was positioned in an induced coma – dying 4 days later in a hospital in Belgrade. 

Morgan’s household say they’d not identified about her deliberate operation till simply days earlier than she was resulting from fly out and had been involved by the dangers. 

Her sister, 26-year-old Kayleigh Ribeiro  had begged her to not undergo with the surgical procedure which carries various complicating well being dangers. 

Her mom Erin Gibson, 44, is now fundraising £10,000 to repatriate her physique and has spoken publicly about her grief.

Speaking to the Independent, the mother-of-five mentioned: ‘Growing up she was bullied rather a lot, she’s all the time battled together with her weight and been an even bigger lady and she or he had a extremely tough time with it.

‘I advised her she was lovely in and out, she actually was an attractive lady.

‘By the time I discovered it was too late, she was already on the airplane. I had that sinking feeling as a result of I’d heard horror tales about Turkey. 

‘I by no means ever need this to occur to a different daughter. I do not need her life to be in useless.’ 

In advance of the process, Morgan had had a digital session with the Turkish firm in September 2023 earlier than reserving the January operation. 

Her boyfriend, James Brewster claims that hospital employees and translators talking to her didn’t point out the hazards related to the operation. 

Following her operation on their Wizz Air flight house, he recalled that Morgan was ‘actually scorching and in loads of ache.’ 

He defined: ‘The flight attendant gave her some ice and water and she or he was discovering it exhausting to breathe so that they took her to the entrance of the airplane the place there was extra space, they tried to provide her an oxygen masks.

‘I might inform one thing was significantly flawed.’

A fundraiser to Morgan’s reminiscence reads: ‘She was loving, she was an artist, a drama queen, similar to me, and she or he was lovely in and out,’ her mom mentioned. 

‘She was outgoing, foolish, pleasant and loving. She liked singing and caring for others – and she or he labored intently with youngsters.’ 

A Wizz Air spokesperson mentioned: ‘We can affirm that in a flight from Istanbul to London Gatwick we made a diversion to Belgrade resulting from a passenger requiring medical help. 

‘The well being and security of our passengers and crew is our prime precedence, and on this occasion the passenger was disembarked from the plane to hunt pressing medical consideration.

‘We’re extremely saddened to listen to of the passenger passing away following their medical therapy and our ideas stay with their household right now.’ 

A authorities spokesman mentioned: ‘We are supporting the household of a British girl who died in Belgrade and are involved with the native authorities.

‘We urge anybody contemplating a medical process overseas to overview our journey recommendation and the related steering from the NHS and different skilled our bodies.’

Morgan’s tragic dying comes days after a 26-year-old mother-of-three died days after a a Brazilian bum-lift operation in Turkey. 

Demi Agoglia, 26, of Salford, Greater Manchester, is claimed to have change into unwell regardless of medical doctors initially declaring her surgical procedure final Thursday was profitable.

The 26-year-old, who had a seven-month-old child boy, first mentioned she felt unwell simply hours earlier than she was resulting from return to Manchester, The Sun reported.

The younger girl was taken into intensive care however was tragically pronounced lifeless on Monday.

She had flown to Turkey having already had dental work which was botched in addition to one other surgical procedure.

Her devastated brother Carl, 37, mentioned Ms Agoglia’s household and accomplice had tried to persuade her to not undergo with the bum-lift as they had been involved for her security. 

The father-of-four mentioned: ‘It is tragic what occurred. We are simply in shock. She went to Istanbul to have it accomplished.

‘She had beforehand gone to have her tooth accomplished. No one needed her to exit and have it accomplished however she is a kind of folks.

‘Her accomplice remains to be on the market and his dad has simply flown on the market to be with him.

‘If anybody is considering of flying to Turkey for an operation I might say do not do it! Even her boyfriend did not need her to do it. But she is 26 and has her personal thoughts. Her mum did not need her to exit both.’

The dangers of overseas beauty surgical procedures are well-known. 

Last yr, Norfolk’s senior coroner Jacqueline Lake wrote to the then Health Minister Steve Barclay of her issues that individuals are unaware of the dangers of getting beauty surgical procedure abroad.

Melissa Kerr, 31, who was ‘acutely aware about her look’, travelled to a personal hospital in Istanbul for the process, Ms Lake mentioned.

But the psychological wellbeing practitioner, of Denton, Norfolk, was solely given ‘restricted info concerning the dangers and mortality charge’ related to it.

Ms Kerr, who had a breast enlargement operation a decade earlier with out problems, died on the Medicana Kadikoy hospital on the day of the butt carry – which sees fats harvested from elsewhere on the physique and injected into the buttocks – on November 19, 2022.

She died after injected fats entered a vein earlier than transferring and blocking her pulmonary artery, together with her explanation for dying recorded as a pulmonary thromboembolism, Ms Lake mentioned.

Consultant plastic surgeon Simon Withey, who was requested to view proof within the case and put together a report for Ms Kerr’s inquest as an skilled witness, mentioned the dying charge related to Brazilian butt lifts is ‘prone to be in extra of 1 in 4,000’.

He mentioned it’s ‘fairly doable’ that, if the chance of the process had been defined to Ms Kerr ‘earlier than she was financially dedicated to proceed, she wouldn’t have accomplished’.

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These two British girls died after having Kardashian butt lifts in Turkey – but shockingly our reporter discovered that getting the identical operation there may be as straightforward as reserving a manicure

By Iram Ramzan in Istabul

Doctor Semih Yildiz is strikingly good-looking, with thick black hair and a neatly trimmed beard. I stand earlier than him whereas he inspects my physique. He prods my abdomen, seems to be at my backside and my waist. He tells me to lean ahead and again. I really feel painfully nervous. I had met this man solely minutes earlier. After a couple of minute, he fortunately concludes that sure, I’m eligible for a ‘butt carry’.

Welcome to Istanbul, a spot the place getting cosmetic surgery is nearly as straightforward as reserving a manicure. And one process that’s getting more and more widespread amongst younger girls particularly is the butt carry, which guarantees a fuller backside and smaller waist, a glance popularised by Instagram stars just like the Kardashians.

Kim and Khloe Kardashian, however, have all the time denied having beauty surgical procedure on their bums – though there was a lot hypothesis, together with current rumours they’ve had their implants eliminated.

Dr Yildiz works at Vanity Cosmetic Surgery Hospital (its motto guarantees ‘A Better You’) within the energetic district of Uskudar, on the Asian aspect of town.

The reception space is clear and smooth. There are shiny magazines on the desk, and a tv display reveals slick movies of current sufferers gushing about their surgical procedures.

A person, most likely in his 30s, sits within the ready space with a feminine companion. He is sporting the tell-tale black headband given to sufferers after a hair transplant to cut back any swelling.

Vanity presents the buttock enlargement surgical procedure, generally known as a ‘Brazilian butt carry’ or BBL, as a part of a bundle at a 3rd of the worth that it could be within the UK, with taxis to and from the airport, and a minimal of 5 nights in a lodge.

As a part of the process, Dr Yildiz reveals me how he can inject fats into my hips in addition to my backside to provide me an total rounder form. And if I’m nonetheless not glad with the dimensions of my posterior, an implant could be added at a later date.

My companion – a Mail on Sunday photographer – protests that I’ve an ideal physique already. ‘Yes, it is good – however she could be even higher!’ he replies. ‘It is sensible. She’s a super candidate.’

So a lot for my private coaching periods and cautious food plan…

In reception, an worker informs me that the soonest I can get surgical procedure is in a fortnight. She quotes me £4,600 (which incorporates airport transfers and lodge lodging), but when I pay a deposit now, she will be able to cut back it to £3,750 – a reduction of almost £900. At this level, I inform her I’ll want to consider it earlier than leaving the clinic.

I by no means deliberate on going by with the operation. I’m right here to analyze the booming butt carry trade, as rising numbers of younger British girls flock to Turkey to get the search for a aggressive value.

Last yr, the nation was set to overhaul France because the second hottest European vacation vacation spot for Brits, due to an enormous surge in ‘beauty tourism’.

This prompted the UK Government to replace its journey recommendation, warning that it was conscious of greater than 25 British nationals who had died following visits to Turkey for medical procedures since January 2019.

Earlier this month a British mother-of-three died after present process a butt carry op in Turkey.

Demi Agoglia, simply 26, turned unwell hours earlier than she was resulting from return house to Salford following her process, which medical doctors had declared successful. Her household mentioned that she collapsed whereas visiting the clinic for a check-up.

Ms Agoglia, who had given delivery to her son simply seven months earlier, was rushed into intensive care, however medical doctors had been unable to avoid wasting her.

Her heartbroken brother Carl, 37, has now warned anybody considering of going to Turkey for surgical procedure to not ponder it. ‘Don’t do it!’ he wrote on-line. ‘It is tragic what occurred. We are simply in shock.’

A butt carry operation includes utilizing liposuction to take away undesirable fats from areas of the physique, such because the waist, abdomen, again and thighs.

Once collected, the fats is purified and injected to create a fuller-looking backside utilizing your personal tissues reasonably than implants.

Implants will also be used for sufferers who do not have sufficient fats to attain this – or who need an excellent larger behind. The fats has a greater likelihood of staying within the meant spot whether it is injected into muscle – however that is the place the deadly threat lies.

If injected incorrectly into the muscle, critical issues can come up. Patients run the chance of struggling a fats embolism, when a few of the fats enters the bloodstream and blocks a blood vessel. If the blockage happens within the lungs, oxygen is prevented from coming into the bloodstream. If it occurs within the mind, it will possibly trigger a stroke.

Butt carry operations have the best threat of dying out of all beauty surgical procedures. The process – which prices £10,000 within the UK – has a dying charge of a couple of per 6,000 surgical procedures.

Melissa Kerr, 31, from Gorleston in Norfolk, travelled to the Medicana Haznedar Hospital in Istanbul for a butt carry in 2019.

She died on the hospital on the day of the surgical procedure, after injected fats entered a vein and blocked her pulmonary artery.

Then there are different problems. Women could be left with scarring, deformities and critical pores and skin infections.

The NHS advises folks to have two consultations with the surgeon treating you earlier than any surgical procedure, as this gives you a cooling-off interval, which is often two weeks within the UK.

According to the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (BAAPS), the variety of these requiring hospital remedies within the UK after beauty surgical procedure overseas has shot up 94 per cent in three years – from 57 in 2020 to 111 in 2022. Procedures in Turkey accounted for greater than three quarters of those.

Dr Paul Banwell, a Harley Street plastic surgeon, says: ‘While there are numerous good surgeons overseas, there are some solely within the quantity of sufferers and folks will solely meet their marketing consultant for the surgical procedure itself. In the UK, there might be earlier than and after appointments and loads of follow-ups.

‘I do know that lots of people are tempted to go overseas for cosmetic surgery as a result of it could be cheaper. However, I might urge anybody who’s contemplating this to please train warning.’ Yet some girls assume it is well worth the threat. Klaudia, a 29-year-old admin employee from Essex, has had no fewer than 4 butt lifts.

On Instagram, she proudly reveals off the physique she has paid for, with vast hips, a big bum and an impossibly small waist. Her foremost affect was – who else? – Kim Kardashian.

‘She’s virtually the right girl,’ she tells the MoS. ‘That’s what I needed to seem like.’

Klaudia’s determine actually attracts consideration. She has caught folks in public taking photos of her backside, even making enjoyable of her. But she insists she does not care.

‘I simply ignore it. Do what makes you cheerful in life. Don’t do it for different folks.’

Instagram appears to play a big position within the butt carry pattern, in additional methods than one. Turkish clinics – there are too many to rely – promote to potential shoppers on social media.

I contacted a minimum of a dozen clinics, and inside an hour had obtained a message from all of them through messaging service WhatsApp.

Typically, you might be requested to ship images of the physique half in query, and are requested cursory particulars about your medical historical past.

One clinic, Medaway, quoted me £2,030 for a butt carry, which was a 30 per cent low cost – however provided that I paid that quantity inside 15 days. The bundle included the same old airport transfers and lodging, in addition to a private translator, follow-up exams, medicines, pre- and post-surgical nutritionists and a post-op check-up.

On Medaway’s web site it says: ‘All packages include a FREE session at our London clinic or through video name in case you choose.’ I wasn’t supplied one, although. I needed to ask for a session myself, which got here at a value of £100 in Istanbul.

If you go forward with the operation, it lasts about three hours and requires a common anaesthetic. For six weeks afterwards, sufferers should put on a compression garment and keep away from mendacity or sitting on their backside as a lot as doable.

Most surgeons contemplate an injection of 300ml of fats to be a protected quantity. However, many surgeons inject extra, conscious that not all the fats will keep the place it ought to and that some will disintegrate.

Dr Yildiz at Vanity tells me he can inject about 500-600ml into my backside. He insists I will not be left with scars, or they are going to be so tiny they’ll fade in just a few months.

He didn’t reply after I later referred to as to query the therapy.

Dr Aamer Khan from the Harley Street Skin Clinic in London, nevertheless, says that scarring can take anyplace from six months to 2 years to fade.

Across city, I head to a clinic within the Levent neighbourhood, one of the costly districts within the European aspect of town. ‘This space is the Harley Street of Istanbul,’ beauty surgeon Dr Resat Altug Aktas tells me, after I see him for a session. I ask what number of butt lifts he is accomplished. ‘After 13 years I finished counting.’

Bald and bespectacled, he initially comes throughout as heat and approachable. And after a fast examination of my physique, he agrees that I’m appropriate for a butt carry.

He can provide me a flatter abdomen and make my hips rounder. When I ask if I can get a extremely massive backside, he replies: ‘In my opinion, a really massive butt shouldn’t be as engaging. I do not do massive butts. I’ve colleagues who do this. But not me.’

He quotes £3,400, with £600 additional for lodge lodging, in addition to printing out a consent type so I can learn concerning the doable uncomfortable side effects. I ask him if I can give it some thought and he says there isn’t any strain. But I can get surgical procedure as early as February.

Husband and spouse Gizem and Orhan Ayan, who run a cosmetic surgery brokerage agency in Antalya, cope with French shoppers coming to Turkey for surgical procedure.

When I inform them I can ebook a process after one session they sound shocked. They suggest having three to 4 consultations beforehand. ‘It’s a really essential topic. It includes your well being on the finish of the day,’ says Gizem. ‘It’s not a vacation.’

Orhan provides: ‘For us, it is not about making numerous cash. Of course, there is not any such factor as zero threat in something. But we need to cut back it as a lot as doable.’

I am going again to Dr Aktas and ask him if it is regular to have only one session.

The tone of his e mail in response is much less pleasant than he initially appeared. He says that he solely advised me I used to be ‘appropriate for surgical procedure’ due to my present medical historical past and common well being.

He provides: ‘However, if there’s a drawback in your blood exams or different exams to be carried out within the hospital, it’s not doable to have this surgical procedure.’

But some medical doctors, as in Klaudia’s case, do not supply a session in any respect. Before she had her first operation 5 years in the past, she solely despatched photos of her physique and so they booked her in for surgical procedure – costing £9,000. Though she was pleased with the consequence, the surgeon supplied her a free operation in a yr’s time if she promoted his clinic on social media. The second operation was one thing she finally regretted. ‘I used to be fully deformed. My bum was droopy and I used to be left with scars.’

Her surgeon initially insisted that it was simply post-procedure swelling and would repair itself. But when it did not, and she or he complained once more, he turned aggressive. ‘This is your bum, that is what you seem like!’ Klaudia recollects him saying.

Left feeling depressed, Klaudia needed to wait almost two years to pay for it to be mounted. This time, she went to a surgeon really useful by a good friend who had had a butt carry operation in Turkey.

She was a lot happier with this surgeon, who largely did corrective work, but additionally eliminated extra fats from her abdomen and the aspect of her waist. She determined to have a fourth operation after gaining weight and feeling unhappy with the way in which she appeared. So she went again to the identical surgeon in Turkey who gave her ‘extra hips and extra fats on the prime [of my bum]’. Now, she’s thrilled together with her new physique.

Eileen, a 29-year-old occasions coordinator from London, has additionally had two butt carry operations in Turkey – the primary in 2019 and one other in 2021 to get a ‘extra snatched waist’.

Initially, the process gave her a lift of confidence. However, it has affected her relationships with males. ‘They simply take a look at your physique, not at how good an individual you might be,’ she advised the MoS. ‘They take a look at you want they need to unwrap you.’

As Klaudia and Eileen’s instances present, surgical procedure can typically be addictive, with sufferers hardly ever stopping at one operation.

‘People lose perspective of what they seem like or ought to seem like,’ says Harley Street’s Dr Khan. ‘If anyone coming to us requests a butt carry we are going to get them psychologically examined first and get them some counselling.’

After seeing these surgeons, I catch myself inspecting my physique greater than earlier than, to see what I can enhance. I attempt to snap out of it. With the proper workout routines and food plan, I can enhance my well being naturally and safely. But it is not as straightforward for weak younger girls who’ve psychological well being points and physique dysmorphia.

And some, like poor Demi Agoglia and Melissa Kerr, have paid for his or her insecurities with their lives.