A bride-to-be who made an ‘impulse’ decision to have a boob job in Turkey was horrified to find that her nipple had fallen off just days after the surgery.
Madison Goodwin, 19, says the £4,000 procedure to have implants and a lift to make her “big, saggy” boobs perkier instead had her breast looking like it had been “bitten by a shark”. She decided to go under the knife on ‘impulse’ in Istanbul, Turkey, after seeing her friend's positive results at the same clinic.
But Madison, who was operated on in April, grew concerned when her nipple became bright purple the day after surgery and overheard a doctor say “it was done wrong but I corrected it”. When she took the bandages a few days later, some of the skin had turned black and her nipple was “hanging on by a thread” before it fell off altogether.
The mum-of-one must now wait for the rest of the necrotic tissue to heal or drop off before she can arrange a skin graft at a UK hospital. Admitting her body may have rejected the reconstruction, Madison is now warning others to have nipple surgery done in the UK in case something goes wrong.
Madison wanted her boobs to be 'perky, and a bit rounder and bigger' (Copyright unknown, not rights cleared)Madison, from Southend-on-Sea, Essex, said: "I wanted to feel I could wear a top, maybe a bit boobier, and they just sit there. I wouldn't have to wear a bra or worry about them slipping out, I wanted them to just sit nicely in every item I could wear and give myself a bit of confidence.
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"Now I feel disgusted looking at my boobs. [As a model], my job is based off what my body looks like. I'm flying out to Thailand in a week and my bandages are on show. I can't even get a nice picture in a bikini. I know that's not the be-all and end all but that's my job - I need to look good in clothes."
After having a baby who was sadly stillborn, Madison felt unhappy with how her boobs looked and booked the surgery. She said: "I had a baby in January, unfortunately she was a stillbirth. My boobs felt very saggy and my nipples were really big, they never went back to normal.
"I'm only small and had these big, saggy boobs, I just wanted them quite perky and a bit rounder and bigger. At the time I was looking around for surgeons in London but it was £9,000 and I'm saving for a house. I didn't want to be spending silly amounts of money so I just thought about Turkey because someone I knew had gone to that specific surgeon and they were really happy with their results.
The model says her bandages were constantly leaking (Kennedy News & Media)
Madison went to change her bandages and her nipple began peeling off (Kennedy News & Media)"I'm not going to lie, I didn't really do much research. It was on quite an impulse. I was well excited. My mum booked the flights and we really thought we were going to go out there and, although I knew I'd be healing, we really thought it would be like a mini getaway."
The two-hour surgery was followed by a two-day stay in hospital before Madison returned to her hotel. After noticing her nipple was bright purple, she was reassured she would heal in a couple of days and flew back to the UK where she sent regular photos to her surgeon.
But 12 days after her surgery, Madison went to change her bandages and her nipple began peeling off. She went to Southend University Hospital, in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, on May 12, and was then transferred to Broomfield Hospital in Chelmsford, Essex, the following day.
She said: "I was changing the bandages daily because they were getting gunkier and [there was] more blood. When I took the bandage off I could see my nipple was starting to peel off. I went to hospital and explained the situation. The doctor took the bandages off really carefully, you could see it was still hanging on by a thread but it didn't come off fully.
"At that point my nipple had become necrotic and was black in certain places. They sent me to another hospital, when they took the bandages off the nipple came off, it was just a big bit of skin. I'm assuming where my nipple had come off it opened my stitches below my breast so then I had an open wound of stitches.
"It genuinely looked like a shark bite, I felt horrible. They kept talking that I'd have to get a skin graft or a nipple tattoo."
Madison admitted she hadn't done much research before the surgery (Kennedy News & Media)
The mum-of-one is due a skin graft (Kennedy News & Media)Madison, who had been on antibiotics after surgery, has been referred by her GP to a wound specialist. She's now waiting for the necrotic tissue to drop off and the rest of the wound to heal before she can have a skin graft.
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Madison, who's due to get married in December, said: "No-one wants to touch it so they're putting things on it to get it to fall off. I'm just waiting to see when it heals, there's only a bit of black necrotic tissue left. Flying back to Turkey for [more] surgery was out of the question, even the hospital said don't go back to them.
"It's not necessarily that they did it wrong, the hospital said it's possibly just your body rejecting it in general. Their point is that the surgeon in Turkey knew it was going bad and still sent me back, so if they're comfortable doing that then I shouldn't trust them."
Now the mum is urging anyone considering nipple surgery to have it done in the UK so any unexpected issues can be dealt with right away. Madison said: "I think if you're ever going to get any kind of lift that should be done in England, because if I'd left it longer and listened to the surgeon I don't even know what would have happened. They told me at the hospital I could have died if I'd left it longer, it was really, really bad. Any girl who wants anything to do with their nipples done, just get it in England because it's so risky.
"At least if something goes wrong, they're so on the ball to help you. They've said it could take six months to heal. My wedding dress is off the shoulder so I'm hoping it will heal beforehand."
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