A 38-year-old former Miss Argentina, Solange Magnano, has died over the weekend from complications resulting from cosmetic surgery, friends says.
‘This woman who had everything is dead because she wanted to have a slightly firmer ass,’ Roberto Piazza, a fashion designer and close friend of Magnano, who frequently appeared as a runway model in his fashion shows, said on Monday.
Magnano, Miss Argentina 1994, a married mother of eight-year-old twins, went under the knife on Thursday at a plastic surgery centre in the capital city, Buenos Aires, hoping to tone up her Butt.
She was rushed to the hospital on Friday suffering from a pulmonary embolism, and died on Sunday,Close friend Roberto Piazza said the procedure involved injections and the liquid ‘went to her lungs and brain.’” Link.
‘She only underwent the procedure because she thought it was no big deal,’ said Guillermo Azar, another associate from the fashion world and a close friend of Magnano’s.
Meanwhile, Juan Carlos Seiler, former president of a Buenos Aires association of plastic surgeons, suggested the doctor who performed the procedure might not have been ‘a real professional from an approved’ cosmetic surgery centre.
There were about 50,000 plastic surgery procedures performed in Argentina in 2008, a 60 per cent increase over 2003, with a growing number of foreigners seeking inexpensive cosmetic enhancements accounting for much of the increase.