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Model Dies From Plastic Surgery
Perhaps a few more of us will stick to a healthy diet and exercise after a 38-year-old former Miss Argentina died from complications after undergoing cosmetic surgery on her buttocks. Solange Magnano, a mother of twins who won the crown in 1994, died of a pulmonary embolism Sunday after three days in critical condition following a gluteoplasty in Buenos Aires. Close friend Roberto Piazza said the procedure involved injections and the liquid “went to her lungs and brain.”"A woman who had everything lost her life to have a slightly firmer behind,” he said. Magnano’s burial Monday was shown on Argentine television. Former Miss Argentina Solange Magnano died Sunday from complications arising during a gluteoplasty—or bum lift. A friend of the former beauty queen told the Associated Press that liquid injected during the procedure had somehow traveled to her lungs and brain. After three days in critical care in a Buenos Aires hospital, Magnano ultimately died of a pulmonary embolism, or blocked artery in the lung.
Magnano was the mother of 7-year-old twins. She won the Miss Argentina crown in 1994, and remained popular throughout the country. Most recently she had been working on a runway show scheduled for December. Friends were both saddened and dismayed by the news. Magnano’s close friend Roberto Piazza told the AP:
“A woman who had everything lost her life to have a slightly firmer behind.”
In recent years, plastic surgery has become increasingly popular in Argentina—as many as 1 in 30 Argentinians undergo cosmetic procedures, according to some estimates. And, as the cost of cosmetic procedures is significantly lower in Argentina than in other parts of the world (including the U.S.), medical tourism for plastic surgery has increased.
The news of Magnano’s death may underscore points made by opponents of a proposed 5% plastic surgery tax, currently being considered as part of the Senate health bill. Detractors argue that taxing cosmetic procedures in the U.S. could drive patients to seek those surgeries elsewhere, where safety regulations may not be as stringent. Yet, regardless of where cosmetic surgeries are performed, like any surgeries they come with serious risks—including the rare possibility of death. In January 2004, novelist Olivia Goldsmith died after going into cardiac arrest during a facelift. Just two year’s ago, hip-hop artist Kanye West’s mother died after complications arising during plastic surgery. And two months ago, a woman died in Miami after complications arose during a liposuction procedure.
Of course, these tragic examples of senseless deaths represent only a tiny fraction of all plastic surgery patients. But they raise important questions about the very real risks involved in cosmetic surgeries. As they struggle to cope with her loss, surely Magnano’s family and friends are also confronting a bitter reality: had she known the ultimate price of this procedure, it’s hard to believe that having a firmer backside would have seemed so important.
Read more: http://wellness.blogs.time.com/2009/12/01/beauty-queen-dies-after-plastic-surgery/?xid=rss-topstories#ixzz0YUGjqJgW
This is insanity in the most vain moments!
Will the truth be blasted across the media like
all the other Have sex longer and faces of women happily claiming their man after popping a few weight loss pills, commercials? Never, as with the glitzy;
have it all now and be beautiful industry, the truth is shoved in the surgery rooms stainless steel shiny trash cans.
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Denis Reply:
December 4th, 2009 at 10:01 am
Harsh words. Things happen and any way you cut it, you are still more likely to die travelling to work this morning than you are from plastic surgery.
Besides she died not in at attempt to “lift her butt” but in an attempt to keep her figure which she needed to keep her job. The same job she needed to feed and raise them.
Whoever wrote this article had no class by making her look like a vein person. This was her job!
How many people die from work related accidents each year? How come no one talks about that.
Very sad and I feel really bad for her kids who have lost their mom.
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tina ford Reply:
December 5th, 2009 at 1:22 pm
most retarded response. the whole nonsense of not being who one really is has to stop. the entire industry is just focused on surface. eat well, alkaline food is best. exercise, do real yoga, be grateful to have what you have, be grateful even to your limbs and your organs. have grey hair, observe your body, do not attach to it. there is more to existence on deeper levels. love your wrinkles, see your real character face. Accept the aging of the body. study yoga philosophy, snap out of it already and relax already.be. and help others on the planet. give!!!! share what you have with the ones on the planet that do not have. we are all in the same boat!!! if we do not make it as a species and share all, we go under, all not just them!
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Actually Denis, there have been millions of dollars, hundreds of thousands of documents, and untold numbers of meetings spelling out corporate procedures & response to job-related safety issues.
More to the point however, is the fact that the Lady involved in this tragedy was a beautiful person before the surgery. We’ve heard the saying, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”. If in fact she needed this procedure to save her job, this reflects poorly on, either the tragic value system of her employers, or her tragic judgment of employment, and it’s requirements.
P.J.
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Denis Reply:
December 5th, 2009 at 12:20 am
Actually P.J., the millions of dollars, hundreds of thousands of documents and untold number of meetings is not the same as news coverage of some construction worker that had a unfortunate accident.
She was in her 30s, competing with girls in their teens.
Everyone wants to get rightous and say “I’d never”, but in reality when you get scared you will react. If you’re uncertain about your future, you’d do whatever you can to be able to feel happy again. This was her attempt to reverse what mother nature was doing to her. She found it to be necessery and it was her body.
Who the hell is anyone to pass judgment on and her decisions and have the balls to insinuate that she’s just vein. All the readers get is 1 page of a story that has been misinterpreted by the author. Then we fill in the blanks and begin the judgment routine.
Anyone that is quick to judge from little information provided in the story needs to grow up.
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Dana Radell Reply:
December 5th, 2009 at 12:34 pm
Thank you, you’ve articulated my thoughts beautifully Denis!
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In a rare case, a person die by plastic surgery. So do not worry about it. generally surgeon always take care during plastic surgery. Moreover people have to know proper information about surgeon and surgery method before to do it in their body.
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Food for thought.
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I do believe Tina said it best. I know that for all there is of positiveness, there is also the balance of negative. hopefully in our own lifetimes we can help tip the balance a little towards our Creator and what we are REALLY supposed to be learning here. I don’t think the Creator will turn us away just because we have a sagging rear end. That is why we are older a hell of alot longer than we are young.Our Creator knows the vanity of humans.Love what you wrote tina ford!
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