Sometimes wen you fee something is wrong in your body system is very good to take an urgent step, An actress who lost both of her breasts to a flesh-eating
disease, after a procedure to reduce the size of her implants went terribly
wrong, has gone under the knife again in the hopes of reinvigorating her career
and snagging 'boobilicous roles'.
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On Sunday night's episode of E! reality series Botched,
Heather Elizabeth Parkhurst, 47, from California, asked Los Angeles-based
surgeons Paul Nassif and Terry Dubrow to reconstruct her shriveled breasts,
which she referred to as 'zombie boobs'.
'My whole career has been based around my breasts and when
that was taken away from me my career was taken away from me,' she explained to
the cameras.
Heather, who was grew up in San Francisco, moved to Los
Angeles to become an actress, where started to feel the industry pressure to
change her body. She decided to get breast implants and go from an A cup to a
DD cup to give herself a leg up on her competition.
Her large breasts helped her land bit roles playing
beautiful women on popular television shows, including Married with Children
and Beverly Hills 90210.
'My number one competitor was Pamela Anderson,' Heather said
of the former Baywatch star for roles, who is also known for her ample bosoms.
Despite her success, Heather began to second guess her
decision when she realized she wanted to audition for more serious roles like
'secretary to the president'.
'When you are in this entertainment business, you never
think you are good enough. That really messed with my head,' she noted.
Heather decided she wanted a smaller chest, but after her
reduction, her breasts were lopsided and there was rippling on her skin.
Her surgeon has promised her that his new procedure, in
which he put screws in her rib cage, would give her the breasts she wanted.
After the surgery, her breasts looked great, but she felt
dea'thly ill and her temperature began to spike. Her doctor immediately sent her
to the hospital where she was diagnosed with a flesh-eating disease caused by
Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).
Heather came very close to dying and had to have her
implants taken out. It took her a full year and half to recover, however, there
was nothing left to her breasts except shriveled skin.
'Now that my breasts are out, I am not who I used to be at
all,' she said. 'I feel like I lost my whole career.'
With the support of her friend Felix, Heather met with Dr
Dubrow and Dr Nassif for a consultation, sharing her traumatic story.
'That's when plastic surgery can kill,' Dr Dubrow said of
her infection.
Dr Dubrow noticed that she was wearing breast prosthesis
that appeared to be a size D, causing him to initially worry that Heather would
want a voluptuous chest that was not possible.
However, Heather candidly explained: 'I am just locked into
having breasts.'
'It's so rare to have a patient be so realistic about the
outcome,' Dr Dubrow said of Heather's expectations for surgery.
Dr Dubrow agreed to take on her case, although Heather had
feared that he was going to be sent away like other doctors had done to her
before.
Any result that is better than what I have I will be
extremely grateful for,' she said.
During surgery, Dr Dubrow was worried that her skin was too
thin. She could start bleeding, the implant could erode through or she could
develop another life-threatening skin infection.
'It could be the end of her career,' he noted of the
possible complications, calling her 'one of the bloodiest cases' he had ever
seen during surgery.
However, after breaking up scar tissue inside the breast, Dr
Dubrow realized that he was able to make a pocket big enough to hold size D
implants.
The surgery proved to be a success and weeks later when she
went to have her bandages removed, Heather started crying tears of joy.
'They look amazing,' she said. I can't believe it. To feel
that I have breasts again. I don't even have words to explain it. It just makes
me cry because I am so happy.'
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