A model has shared the harrowing effects from a boob job that saw her implants poison her body and leave her seriously ill.
Karmen Karma, 30, from Los Angeles, California, first got her breasts enlarged in 2014, going from a 34B to 34F.
Despite being satisfied at first, the OnlyFans star started feeling pressure to “look a certain way” and in 2018, decided to upgrade the size of the implants from 300cc to 800cc.
Unlike her first surgery, which went ahead without a hitch, this one nearly ended in tragedy.
Almost immediately following the operation, the mum-of-two began experiencing symptoms of Breast Implant Illness (BII) such as chronic fatigue, migraines that left her bedridden, brain fog, difficulty breathing, depression and weight gain.
“I felt a lot of pressure to look a certain way while performing scenes in the adult industry,” Karmen, who also works as a p*rn star, told Jam Press.
“I felt that if I wanted to get booked for scenes and to be successful I had to have bigger breasts.
“My first breast implants in 2014 were completely fine and I was happy with those but as soon as I sized up to an extremely large silicone implant I started experiencing sickness.
“Almost straight away I didn’t feel right.
“I had migraines every single day and my fatigue was so extreme that I couldn’t get out of bed.
“I would have to take at least three naps a day – I felt so ill I thought I was dying.”
At the time, Karmen was living in California with her husband and daughter, who was just two years old.
She said: “It got so bad that I had trouble taking care of my toddler because I needed so much sleep.
“I gained weight, I had trouble taking in large breaths of air and I basically couldn’t function as a normal human being.
“I initially got the surgery so I could be more successful in porn but I ended up only being able to shoot two scenes in a whole year.”
“It was so frustrating, especially not being able to take care of my daughter.
“My body just couldn’t function and I would cry all the time because I wanted to live a normal life again.
“I desperately wanted to figure out what was making me sick so badly.”
Although she suspected her breast implants were the issue, Karmen saw countless doctors and specialists and her tests kept “coming back normal”.
The lack of answers left the mum feeling drained and desperate to get help.
She said: “I wanted to know if it could be anything other than my implants that was making me sick.
“All of my test results kept coming back normal.
“I even had an in lab sleep study done overnight to see if maybe there was something going on with my sleep that was causing me all of these symptoms.
“When that came back fine too I decided to get off birth control to see if that was the culprit – but nothing helped.
“In the end I was convinced that it was the implants that were making me ill.”
After more than a year of struggling – and convinced she had BII – in 2019 Karmen made the decision to have her implants removed, and is now sharing her story to warn others.
She said: “I had to have full breast explant surgery combined with a breast lift, immediately afterwards, due to the implants being so large.
“As soon as they were gone, I instantly felt better.
“I could breathe easier, my migraines went away and I no longer needed naps during the day and felt the healthiest I had felt in a long long time.
“It was only then that I realised just how much my implants were poisoning my body.
“For the year after that operation having fake breasts ruined my life.”
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