A young girl has died following a botched liposuction operation, which she had been given as a competition prize.
19-year-old beauty queen and glamour model Catherine Cando had initially declined the surgery offered to her. She won the prize last year, after she was crowned Queen of Duran in Ecuador, but decided not to go in for it as believed she didn’t actually need it.
However, after being awarded the title, she felt that she was overweight and began exercising more to lose weight. She was receiving numerous calls from the surgeon offering the procedure and eventually decided to go in for it.
Before having the surgery, she received a lot of calls from the surgeon trying to persuade her to do it, but she kept saying no,” her brother Daniel Zavala told the Daily Mirror.
“She was thinking about letting someone else have it as a freebie but eventually she agreed to have it just get him off her back.”
But she died on the operating table, with the surgeon arrested for suspected negligence.
The model’s death follows reports an incident last month where Brazilian beauty queen Andressa Urach was admitted to intensive care after she underwent plastic surgery to her thighs.
Back in 2011, 27-year-old Brazilian model Pamela Nascimento also died during a liposuction procedure. Her death has been registered as hypovolemic shock, which is where extensive blood loss means the heart is unable to pump enough blood to the body.