Australian OnlyFans model Kayla Jade is recounting the harrowing Brazilian butt lift procedure that almost cost her her life.
“I didn’t have a lot of money at the time, and I had heard so many people were going to get surgeries in Turkey — and that they were really good at what they did,” Jade, 30, told News.com.au on Tuesday, June 17, reflecting on the experience. “I was hearing so many good things, so I thought it would be perfect.”
Jade recently revealed on her eponymous podcast that she traveled to Turkey because doctors offered her a less expensive alternative than what was available at home.
“From the time I was young, I always wanted to get a BBL to fill in my hip dips, which makes me so sad now,” she recalled on the June 4 episode of her “Storytime” podcast. “I had heard of people going to Turkey because it was so much cheaper. I didn’t have any money, so I was like, ‘OK, we’re going to try out Turkey.’”
Jade did her own research, eventually settling on a place that seemed reputable and had “amazing” reviews. She has since claimed that she “almost literally died” from the procedure.
“I was waiting at the hospital for, like, an hour, and this doctor never came,” she claimed. “Then, one of the nurses got me and was like, ‘We’re searching everywhere for the doctor.’ … I have my surgery the next morning, so I’m kind of freaking out at this point.”
It turned out Jade’s doctor was working at his clinic, which is where she needed to have “a consult” pre-op.
“The first thing he said to me was, ‘Oh, you don’t have enough fat, so you’re not going to get the result that you want,’” Jade alleged. “I knew for sure I had enough fat, like, I made sure I was drinking milk and I gained [weight]. … I feel like, I don’t know, he was saying that so I don’t get my hopes up or he was just going to do a cheap job, so he was setting the bar low.”
Despite getting what she called “disappointing” feedback, Jade still decided to move forward with the procedure the following morning.
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“It’s go time and, literally, my [and] everyone’s worst nightmare happens on the operating table. I could literally feel everything,” Jade recalled. “When you get a BBL, they have these silver rods and they push it into your stomach and it sucks out all the fat. I could just feel that … and it was the most burning sensation. I couldn’t even describe it.”
She added, “I was literally paralyzed, like, I could not move, but I could feel everything. It was just the most traumatic thing I’ve ever been through.”
Jade later fell asleep during the remainder of the procedure, waking up in the recovery room in “the most excruciating pain.”
“I was vomiting blood [and] my body was just in shock,” she said. “I was uncontrollably shaking, I was freezing [and] I was crying, screaming. It was just a nightmare.”
Jade said that she never got a concrete update from the medical staff about her condition.
“I was in an out-of-it state [and] I was just trying to survive at this point,” she said. “I thought I was going to f***ing die, like, my body was just going through the works. It was a horrible experience.”
Jade was discharged from the medical facility the next day and at a local hotel until she could fly back to Australia.
“I had swelled up like a balloon,” she said. “It was almost like they had taken chunks of the fat out of my back and left a lot of it in there. It was just random chunks taken out, and I was like, ‘Is this going to get any better? What is going on here?’ They were like, ‘Oh, no, it’s just because you’re swollen.’”
According to Jade, the fat transfer “didn’t stay” in her body and “was gone in a few months.” She ultimately had a revision surgery the next year.
“He couldn’t believe that they had me sitting on my butt straight out of surgery,” she recalled. “You’re meant to wake up on your stomach and put no pressure on your butt. He couldn’t believe that. … He went in and fixed everything up, and I got such amazing results from that.”
