A woman whose botched cosmetic surgery left her with butt implants that could be flipped inside-out has spoken out about the horrifying video that made her famous.
Former Las Vegas stripper Renee Talley, 45, said on last night's episode of E!'s Botched: 'My video has been seen in every country in the world. I think it was a million views in, like, five minutes.'
Far from being a happy five minutes of fame, however, it merely added to her plummeting self-esteem. 'This whole procedure has affected my life in so many different ways,' she revealed. 'I don't really look in the mirror at myself anymore because I'm not happy with the way my butt looks.'
She explains the story behind the botched surgery in the TV show. 'I started altering my butt area in 2010,' she explained, putting it down to 'a little mid-life crisis'.
She added: 'I wanted the volume and the fullness back at the top of my butt.'
Just six months after getting silicone injections, however, she began feeling sick. 'I was having a lot of fatigue, I had a lot of pain and sensitivity in my butt,' she recalls. 'I was having stomach issues and bathroom problems and it progressively got worse.'
Finally, she had an MRI, at which point doctors discovered that the silicone had migrated up her back and down her legs, attaching to her organs and resulting in autoimmune disease.
She knew she had to remove the implants, but when a doctor told her the removal would result in 'some deformities' since they had to cut out some of the tissue as well, Renee let her vanity get the best of her.
'Me being vain, I didn't want that,' she confessed. 'I decided to put an implant in to fill in the space where the silicone was removed. They wanted me to wait six months, and I said no.'
Consequently, the second surgery caused even more problems. Now, Renee was able to feel and move the implants when she put her hands underneath her rear-end, which she is seen doing in the viral video.
Despite the profound effect the botched surgery has had on her life, Renee acknowledges that she only has herself to blame.
And she hopes that her horror story will make other women think twice before doing anything drastic to alter their looks.
'It's something I did to myself so I'm going to have to learn to live with it,' she said. 'I'm probably never going to be able to fix the imperfection. If you ruin it, you can't go back and fix it.'
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