Transgender woman dies after undergoing illegal backstreet bum implant surgery

       

Yessika Hilton, 25, wanted a more shapely rear

A young transgender woman has died after undergoing illegal backstreet bum implant surgery.
Friends said Yessika Hilton desperately wanted a more shapely rear but could not afford buttock implants from a professional clinic.
Instead, the 25-year-old paid for the plastic surgery at an illegal backstreet clinic - in a garage in Colombia.

Yessika, from the small town of Florida in Colombia’s south-western Valle del Cauca Department, had polymers injected into her buttocks.

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The transgender woman could not afford professional plastic surgery

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So she underwent a backstreet procedure

But as the injection was being administered, the chemicals leaked and spread around her body, causing cardiorespiratory failure.


The cowboy practitioners performing the operation realised something had gone horribly wrong and called an ambulance to the garage.

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Yessika was injected with polymers in a garage

      

But during the injection the chemicals leaked and spread around her body, causing cardiorespiratory failure

The young woman was rushed to the Colombia Clinic in the nearby city of Cali, but died hours later.
Yessika was a member of the Mesa de Genero Colombia (the Colombia Gender Board) - an organisation that unites activists fighting for gender equality.