Ex-Miss Argentina dies after cosmetic surgery on her buttocks

[KamaAina]

You just can't make this stuff up...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=post&forum=105

A 38-year-old former Miss Argentina has 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.

That pretty much sums it up. :(

[Haole Girl]

1. How sad

I feel sorry for her twins.

[onlyadream]

2. Something is really wrong with us.

On Dr. Phil a few weeks ago they had women who's faces got VERY messed up due to a bad doctor using silicone to fill up lines and lips. It just isn't worth it. We need to learn to be happy with the way we look.

Her poor family.

[redqueen]

3. I agree...

which is why it irritates me to see people lauding older women for 'looking so good'... when what we should really be lauding them for is having good plastic surgeons, dying their hair, etc.

In essence what we are really praising is the talent of the better plastic surgeons... not to mention these women's willingness to spend thousands and risk injury by having such work done.

[jus_the_facts]

4. Your link goes to the post a thread in the lounge page...

:shrug:

[KamaAina]

6. Just as well. My stupid fishwrap moved it to registration.

Try here:

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=9211926

[joeybee12]

5. A similar fate for the woman who wrote The First Wives Club...

...complications from a face lift...she made a fortune with her best-seller only to die soon after.

[pitohui]

10. olivia goldsmith

not a deep writer but a fun writer

i think she did have time to enjoy her fortune, i thought "flavor of the month" came out in the 80s and it was also a big hit

i was v. sorry when she passed so unexpectedly, and her complications occurred at a v. well regarded hospital

that said, life is risk, and people will try to use technology to improve themselves, and i don't see that as evil or bad

i'd rather go down fighting than just say "oh well, i'm getting old, i give up"

[grace0418]

7. I don't think people really stop to consider that surgery has risks. I would never go

under the knife unless medically necessary or it was something that was really affecting my quality of life (i.e. burn scars, breasts so large they were giving me back problems, etc.). I guess in a way I'm grateful I was never a beauty queen when I was young, because I'm not nearly as panicked about getting older as some of these women seem to be. What a shame. Those poor kids. Roberto Piazza said it all.

[pitohui]

11. of course people stop to consider that surgery has risks

getting in my car has risks that are considerably larger than the risks of plastic surgery but i do it anyway

life is risk

people who sit on their couch and do nothing to improve themselves don't impress me none -- it definitely takes more courage to get off the couch and get work done -- you are only kidding yourself if you think these women didn't know the risks and didn't know fear

they knew, but they dared

i don't see anything courageous in just giving up, it's cheaper, that's abt all, but every time i listen to the siren song of "give up and age gracefully" i know in my heart how lazy that is -- h ow cowardly

people don't have work done to look 20, you'd have to be an idiot to think it will make you look all the much younger, they have work done to prove they still care about taking care of themselves and they're still in the game of life -- and that's HUGE

[grace0418]

15. There's a HUUUUGE difference in my book between "just giving up" and choosing to potentially

risk your life and leave your children motherless in order to have a firmer butt. Are you saying that everyone who chooses to age gracefully rather than get a bunch of work done has "given up"? Because that's how it came across. I know I sure haven't "given up"–but I neither can I ever see myself having cosmetic surgery unless, like I said, it was really becoming a burden on my daily existence.

It seems to me that somewhere in between having expensive, risky surgery and completely giving up lies a vibrant life made better though a healthy diet, regular exercise, laughter, friendship, maybe some meditation or volunteer work.

It also seems to me that every time there's a news story about something tragic that happened to a cosmetic surgery patient, they interview a number of people (usually women) who say things like "I just wanted to get liposuction/larger breasts/a nicer chin, I had no idea I'd be scarred for life/I could get an infection that would nearly kill me/I would lose my eye." So yeah, I do believe many people don't really think it will happen to them until it does.

[blueamy66]

8. What a waste.

You couldn't pay me to have plastic surgery.

[pitohui]

12. you could sure as crap pay me

i have to admit i'm impressed at how little physical courage there is on DU, no offense but between this and the "i want at least 1.5 million to serve a year in prison on reality teevee" thread i'm just shaking my head

pay me! pick me! i might be little, middle aged and shriveled up but i've got more physical courage than that...i'll take a risk to improve myself and if there's $$$ involved on top of it, fuck baby where do i sign up?

[blueamy66]

19. Well, I have health anxiety

and HATE even going to the doctor's office, better yet having elective surgery.

But, to each his own. :-)

[Odin2005]

9. DOH!

:banghead:

[SKKY]

13. I watched an interview of an actor here in Spain who went to Argentina for a penis enlargement...

...it went badly, and now he has almost no sensation in his penis. He's got a 9 inch pipe, but what's the point.

[Deja Q]

14. People are vain.

[pokerfan]

17. But what courage he had!

:sarcasm:

[704wipes]

16. gluteoplasty

say that out loud 5 times real fast
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[Maraya1969]

18. Botched plastic surgeries

http://www.oddee.com/item_96587.aspx