A model who has spent $1m USD (£758,000) to emulate her idol – Kim Kardashian – has shared a stark warning about her plastic surgery “addiction”.
Jennifer Pamplona first went under the knife when she was just 17 years old after years of bullying at school.
Now 31, she has spent over a decade transforming her body – having gone under the knife 30 times and had countless other procedures.
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The influencer, who has one million Instagram followers, is sharing how a breast implant once exploded in her chest, which became a turning point for her.
“My breast implant burst,” Jennifer told Need To Know.
“It was one of the most traumatic moments of my life and made me reflect on what I was doing to myself.
“It was also the moment I realised that I was addicted to plastic surgery.
“I was so focused on looking good on the outside that I completely ignored my body’s health.
“This experience was one of many hard times I have faced in my quest for the perfect body.”
In a video, the model can be seen lying in a hospital bed.
The implant is visible through a slit in the side with what appears to be silicone pouring out of it.
Jennifer, who is from Sao Paulo, Brazil, first started altering her face and body as a teen.
She says her obsession with plastic surgery was “rooted in insecurity” from years of being tormented by bullies.
Jennifer has had so many procedures that she’s “lost track” of the total number.
This includes surgeries such as three nose jobs, two nose reconstructions, four liposuctions with BBL, a facelift, rib removal, four buccal fat removals, a spider web lift, three boob jobs, a breast reconstruction and four neck fat removals, among other operations and non-surgical procedures.
The model said: “[When I had my first surgery as a teenager], I didn’t understand the impact it would have on my adult life.
“I was constantly ridiculed, always feeling out of place and it was eating me up inside.
“All I wanted was to be accepted.”
The implant rupture happened four years ago during a photo shoot, when Jennifer fell off a camel.
She’s now chosen to share her story as a warning to others considering plastic surgery and to be an “example for the younger generation”.
She said: “[When the implant burst], to me, this was a turning point that made me realise that surgeries can’t fill the internal void left by past traumas.
“[I know that] the real issue is not with my body but with how I see myself.
“No matter how much I change externally, it won’t solve my internal problems.
“I want to show life as it really is – the underworld [of social media and fame] is filled with ‘pain’ and everyone pays the price, sometimes with their lives.
“That’s why I want to be an example for the younger generation, showing everything I’ve faced, without lies and without filters.”
