A guest on Friday’s episode of Good Morning Britain opened up about how an operation to remove her excess skin after losing 12 stone soon turned her life into a living nightmare.
Kate Garraway, 58, and Ranvir Singh, 48, returned to our screens for the latest instalment of the ITV programme to share the latest news, including how the government has ‘issued a fresh warning on botched cosmetic surgeries’.
Guest Sara Platt, 33, from south Wales, and ITV reporter Ellie Pitt joined the pair in the studio to talk about the channel’s new documentary How We Expose The Cosmetic Cowboys.
Sara fly to Turkey after losing 12 stone to get rid of her severe excess skin as she was constantly getting skin infections.
She got an uplift, implant and tummy tuck done – but the outcome was far from worth it.
Sara told Kate and Ranvir: ‘It made it tenfold worse. What I’m left with now, not just body, my mental health, it’s shocking. It’s really bad.’
A guest on on Friday’s episode of Good Morning Britain opened up about how an operation to remove her excess skin after losing 12 stone soon turned into a living nightmare
Kate Garraway, 58, and Ranvir Singh, 48, returned to our screens for the latest instalment of the ITV programme to share the latest news, including how the goverment has ‘issued a fresh warning on botched cosmetic surgeries’
Sara fly to Turkey after losing 12 stone to get rid of her severe excess skin as she was constantly getting skin infections – but the outcome was not worth it
She added: ‘It was extremely bad, I lost my right breast. I had gaping holes in my stomach.
‘I was only supposed to have a tummy tuck, uplift and implant, but they cut from my arms, my sides and my back, because there was not enough skin to close me.
‘Then on day nine, I was operated on awake, part of my body was placed by the side of my head.’
Later on in the interview Sara said: ‘We do get bad comments, this is why I am trying to get change made so people coming back from Turkey don’t use the NHS, they were life-saving surgeries for me.
‘This is why we need more regulations. This is why the government need to take a stand and work with us.’
After having 13 life saving surgeries from the NHS, Sara sadly confessed: ‘I’m still not good.’
Journalist Ellie wanted to point out that Sara’s nightmare could also happen in the UK.
She explained: ‘Some of the issues that Sara had skin infections, sepsis, the permanent scarring that they are left with, this is all happening here in the UK as well.
Journalist Ellie (pictured left) wanted to point out that Sara’s nightmare could also happen in the UK
‘We’ve spoken to people who have had severe emotional distress, sense of shame, embarrassment that will stay with them for life.
‘They have bravely spoken with us and shared our stories, but people think, “Oh it won’t happen here because there are rules here”.
‘In this country we have regulation, the food we eat, products we buy in shops, yet there is nothing around who can inject who with cosmetic chemicals.’
The journalist also revealed out the documentary came about, explaining: ‘This started more than two years ago, we need to look into the problems in British high streets about aesthetics.
‘When she said that I had no idea the scale and level of harm that is being caused to people who are going to have procedures, tweakments, injectables, to make them feel better about themselves.
‘In the documentary, we go undercover, secret filming, the issues like needles and syringes being left stuck inside people’s bodies unattended on one day training courses.
‘Liposuction on people’s faces being done in a back room in someone’s beauty salon.
‘These are all happening because of a distinct lack of regulation. No rules.’
Recalling what happened in Turkey to ITV last year, Sara said: ‘I remember coming round and my Dad being by the side of me and saying, “you need to breathe Sara, you need to breathe”.
‘There were loads of nurses around me and I was like ‘kill me, tell them to kill me, Dad, you need to tell them to kill me. I can’t do this, you need to tell them’.”
‘I’d never experienced this. I wanted to die. I couldn’t deal with this pain.
‘I remember realising that my breast, after an hour of coming around, my breast was purple. It was totally purple.’
Good Morning Britain airs weekdays from 6am on ITV1 and is available to stream on ITVX.
