BBL HELL
‘Katie Price’s BBL doctor nearly KILLED me’ – Self-styled celeb ‘beauty consultant’ charging women £2k for ops exposed
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A MUM has told how she allegedly nearly died after undergoing a Brazilian butt lift from a self-styled celebrity "beauty consultant".
Ricky Sawyer specialises in liquid BBLs, charging £2,000 for the dangerous procedure - with clients including Katie Price.
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A BBC investigation has spoken to more than 30 women who claim to have been left with serious complications, including sepsis and necrosis (tissue death).
BBLs involve injecting dermal filler into buttocks to lift them and make them appear bigger.
It comes after Brit mum Alice Webb died in October last year following a botched procedure at a clinic in Gloucester.
One of Sawyer's patients, mum-of-two Joanne, from south Wales, spotted an advert on Instagram promising an "hour-glass figure" and booked an appointment.
She travelled seven hours to his Essex clinic for the treatment, persuaded by his celebrity endorsements in the hopes of achieving a "peachy bum".
However, as soon as she arrived she began having second thoughts, the BBC reports.
The postcode she was given led her into an industrial estate before she found a small door into a block of flats.
"I should have turned and ran," she told BBC programme Botched: The Brazilian Butt Lift Nightmare.
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She had already paid a £600 deposit before counting out the rest of the £2,000 in cash as she waited to begin the procedure.
Joanne was injected with a litre (1.8 pints) of filler and the pain was unbearable.
She said: "I felt dizzy, sick and like shaky. My legs didn't even move properly. And that was all within a minute of him starting.
"I remember looking round and he had white gloves on that were full of blood."
She added that by the end she was in "so much pain" and her bum was "completely disfigured".
Joanne says she messaged Sawyer multiple times in the aftermath and he advised her to take antibiotics.
However, just days later she was blue lighted - "dripping with sweat and screaming" - to hospital with her temperature soaring.
Sepsis was spreading so quickly, initially doctors thought they would need to cut out a large section of her bum.
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Joanne claims after messaging Sawyer to say she was in hospital, he blocked her on Instagram.
The Sun has contacted Katie Price's reps for comment.
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