Woman's Botched Breast Job Leaves Her With Uni-Boob

on October 4, 2011 at 6:10 PM

uni-boob Unfortunately there's a lot of bad plastic surgery out there. Spend an hour watching Bravo TV and you'll see your fair share of face-lifts gone wrong and lip injections gone wild. Celebs aren't immune to plastic surgery hack jobs (even though they have the money and the connections) and neither are we regular folk, like Dinora Rodriguez. She's a 40-year-old woman from Los Angeles who knows all too well what a bad surgeon is capable of. She went in for a boob job with two breasts and emerged with one. She's got a uni-boob.

It's terrible -- her breasts are connected in the center and the experience has been excruciating for Dinora, figuratively and literally. She's been in a lot of pain and slipped into a deep depression because of her botched boob job, and I can't blame her. I'd be just as upset if something like that happened to me.

But Dinora made a bad decision when she went to a non-certified plastic surgeon to have her leaky breast implants removed and new ones put it. That is not to say whatsoever that she deserved what she got, not at all, but officials say that unfortunately, this happens more than we think. Doctors see plastic surgery procedures as a way to make extra money, and will say they are qualified to perform them even though they're not. A GI doctor shouldn't be giving nose jobs and ob/gyns shouldn't be doing boob jobs, or knee surgery, for that matter. Dinora's case launched a safety campaign about patients knowing who's behind the knife.

I feel for this woman, how could you not? She's in pain and her boobs are stuck together. Unfortunately her story is just a reminder that whatever is too good to be true out there probably is. If you think you found Ugg boots for $25, you probably didn't. You found knock-offs made in China with the fur they've skinned off live dogs. If you think you've found a plastic surgeon who charges half the price of everyone else ... maybe think again.

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Comments (16)

LucretiaMcEvil

on Oct 4, 2011 at 6:17 PM

She's got an ass on her chest! Bawhahahaha!

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MakenzieG

on Oct 4, 2011 at 6:21 PM

Lots of women get back-alley injections from unqualified providers. Silicone is one I see pop up a lot on RealSelf.com. It can look great for a few years, but may harden into misshapen lumps over time. :o

These three are enough to convince me never to get butt injections!

hoticedcoffee

on Oct 4, 2011 at 6:32 PM

I can't muster any sympathy for her. If you look for a cheap surgical option, you get a cheap surgical appearance.

Facebook comment from Leanne Carnegie

on Oct 4, 2011 at 6:54 PM

No sympathy. I'll never understand people that turn to body modification instead of learning to love themselves. Changing your outward appearance won't change the way you feel inside.

A good friend of mine always hated her body... when she was 16 and a tiny thing, she hated it, after 3 kids and 2+ years of nursing and weight gain, she hated it. Her hubby agreed to a "mommy makeover" for her... and what happend? She ended up with nipples that are too high, a freddie kreuger looking stomach that is abnormally hard, she still insists she's fat, she left her husband AND kids for a loser and now spends her nights drinking more tequila that a person should have in a year! She lost everything and if she had only spent that money on counselling instead of surgery it would not have turned out this way. So sad.

tuffymama

on Oct 4, 2011 at 7:37 PM

It is hard to feel sympathy for someone getting purely cosmetic implants, especially when that dingus is too silly to use a certified practitioner. Durrrh!

Nonmember comment from blh

on Oct 4, 2011 at 8:03 PM

How the hell did that happen?? I can't even begin to imagine. Im not going to criticize her for wanting a boob job but ALWAYS go to a good surgeon. Better tiny boobs than a uniboob. I don't see why she doesn't demand that doctor fix it...id go apeshit on someone if that happened to me.

momavanessa

on Oct 4, 2011 at 8:37 PM

laughing Man that sucks!! Don't wanna laugh but hard not to!

Nonmember comment from Mike M

on Oct 4, 2011 at 8:47 PM

For those who have no sympathy for her, have you asked yourself how Jesus might feel about her situation? Would he say that she deserved what she received? Or would he sympathize with her for having made a mistake that she learned from? (Similarly, would he say that a teenager who wants to be loved and became pregnant because she was having sex outside of marriage deserves to be scorned or to suffer the difficulties of raising a child on her own because she wanted to have someone in her life who genuinely loves her? [Sadly there are far too many parents in the world whose love for their children is either conditional or non-existent rather than unconditional.]) I do hope that she learns to love herself as she is, but many people have parents who do not teach them that (or even know how to be good parents/teachers), nor do they learn to love themselves on their own until later in life.

Nonmember comment from Missy

on Oct 5, 2011 at 9:26 AM

I agree with Mike. Most of you women on here are judgemental and rude. If it happened to you, you'd feel the same way as she did. But because you lead these far superior, perfect lives (big eye roll) you have no sympathy for her?? Karma is a b*tch!! She made a mistake... mistakes happen. I feel bad for her and hope she recovers from her depression.

on Oct 5, 2011 at 9:53 AM

Wow, Missy, so defensive. Has it occured to you that perhaps this is her karma payback? Her lesson in life? Perhaps her vanity has tripped her up? Vanity that kept her from learning a lesson after the first set of bad, leaky implants? So this time, the lesson is harder, and it seems like she's learned?