But the operation went disastrously wrong, leaving Gemma, 30, looking like she had ‘been bitten by shark.’
The mother-of-three shares her story in the latest episode of Last Chance Salon, where she hopes cosmetic surgeon Mr Vik Vijh can repair her misshapen stomach.
‘I feel like a freak’: Gemma’s stomach was left swollen, scarred and lumpy after her botched tummy tuck
Gemma explains how she saved up £3,200 with her husband Chris’
support to have a tummy tuck in the hope she could have a flat stomach
again after having three children.‘My husband was working out of the country at the time and my plan was my body would be all fixed and how I wanted it by the time he came back,’ she sai
Gemma went to Poland to have the operation but her nightmare began when she woke up during the surgery.
‘Everything
is wrong’: Surgeon Mr Vik Vijh at the Last Chance Salon said it was one
of the worst cases of surgery gone wrong he had ever seen
Op
regrets: The mother-of-three said she looked like she’d been bitten by a
shark thanks to the scarring, misaligned belly button and lumpy skin
folds she was left with
‘I woke up during anesthetic and couldn’t move which was horrible, I
was trying to open eyes,’ she recalled. ‘They must have noticed I wasn’t
completely under as I was gagging on the tube in my throat.’But Gemma’s ordeal did not end there. After flying back to her home in Devon two days after the operation, she developed gangrene and then had to be hooked up to a machine to ‘suck all the infection out.’
She was left with a scared and misshapen body she was ashamed of.
She said: ‘It looks like I’ve been bitten by a shark. The scar is all crinkly, my belly button is too high and off to the side. One area looks swollen, it’s just a big mess. It looks horrible.’
After visiting Mr Vijh at The Last Chance Salon, he commented that her botched tummy tuck was ‘one of worst cases I’ve seen’. ‘Everything is wrong,’ he added.
But the surgeon, who specialises in cosmetic and reconstructive surgery, was confident Gemma’s problem could be solved – if she could dare to go under the knife again after her previous experience.
Gemma plucked by the courage to have the reconstructive surgery at Nuffield Health Hospital in Hereford and was delighted with the results.
‘It’s amazing, I can’t believe it,’ Gemma said of her new body. ‘My belly button is in the right place and the swelling gone.’
Read more: Daily Mail
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