A woman has spoken of her heartache after spending her life savings on a 'booty job' bum lift operation - only for the surgeon to bungle it and leave her in agony and unable to sit down.
I lost so much weight I looked ill and had to have a break from the [gastric] band,' she explains. 'But I went from a size six to a 14 in weeks before having the band fixed and losing weight again.'The fluctuation in my weight left me with loose skin on my stomach and legs and wrinkly folds and sagging skin around my hips and bum.
'I was a 30-something with the body of an 80-something old woman. My son used to say, "Mum, it looks like your bum has melted". My skin looked like candle wax dripping down the back of my legs.'It had no shape, my buttocks were flat and exercise wasn’t making any difference.'
Determined to do something about it, the mother-of-one saved £2,000 and jetted to Prague for cut-price cosmetic surgery.
Having previously had a tummy tuck at the same clinic, Ms Faulkner says she had no qualms about her bottom lift beforehand but was aghast when she awoke to see two huge scars across her buttocks.