A Brazilian model who once vied for the title of the country's most beautiful backsides has been left physically scarred through botched plastic surgery that nearly claimed her life.
New pictures have been released of Andressa Urach, 27, the Brazilian bombshell who finished second in her nation's 2012 Miss BumBum contest, that show the state her legs were left in.
The gruesome pictures, released by picture agency The Grosby Group, show severe scars and wounds on her body as she lies in her hospital bed. Her condition was so serious she almost needed to have her left leg amputated, the group said.
But after spending most of December in the hospital she is finally on the road to recovery.
She began to realize her health was in danger in the middle of last year when she began to feel a negative reaction to hydrogel fillers doctors injected into her upper legs to fill out her thighs and lift her butt.