BeautyLifestyle“My Eyes Don’t Close, I Can’t Smile,” Beauty Queen Laments After £3,000 Facelift Surgery, Drags Doctors To Court

A Russian beauty queen, Yulia Tarasevich has been left deformed in the face – unable to close her eyes or smile – following a botched plastic surgery.

Yulia Tarasevich, 43, won runner-up in the Mrs. Russia-International pageant two years ago, and soon afterwards went for plastic surgery to correct aging that cost her £3,000 (N1.6m).

After the surgery, in Krasnodar, she was, however, left with a deformed face. According to her, after recovering from the facelift surgery – a blepharoplasty of the eyelids, and reduction of fat in her cheeks – she discovered that she can’t close her eyes, move large parts of her face or smile.

“I came to them with a beautiful, healthy face. I just wanted to correct some nuances caused by aging,” the mother of two said about the procedures in Krasnodar.

“But sadly, I lost my health. I have scars that formed in my cheeks when they ripped out all my tissue. My eyes don’t close. And I can’t smile. I can’t lift my upper lip. One part of my face doesn’t work at all,” she added.

In a bid to correct the facial anomalies, Yulia had emergency follow-up surgery by another doctor to save her eyes from necrosis, spending an extra £20,000 (N11.3m) to no success.

Yulia has filed a complaint against the two surgeons who were involved in her original operation. The doctors, identified as Dr. Andrey Komarov and Dr. Omar Khaled, however, denied responsibility for her nightmare, claiming she had scleroderma, a rare genetic condition that causes hardening of the skin.

Speaking on why she dragged the original medics to court, she accused the surgeons of blaming her by claiming she had a condition that they could not detect prior to the surgery.

“The surgeons made me the only one guilty for what has happened. The doctors, who. disfigured my face, relieved themselves of all responsibility. I decided to have my day in court,” she said.