‘My breast is ruined’: Bride-to-be reveals her nipple turned black and then dropped off after ‘impulse buy’ boob job in Turkey

A bride-to-be has told of her agony after an ‘impulse’ buy boob job in Turkey saw her nipple turn black and drop off.

Madison Goodwin, from Southend-on-Sea in Essex, paid £4,000 in April for the surgery in an effort to make her ‘big, saggy’ breasts perkier.

The 19-year-old opted for a cut-price clinic in Istanbul — where thousands of Britons flock to for cheap surgery every year — as she didn’t ‘want to be spending silly amounts of money’. 

But just days after her operation the model discovered her nipple was bright purple and claims she overheard a doctor say ‘it was done wrong but I corrected it’.

After being reassured it would heal quickly, Ms Goodwin returned to the UK and kept in touch with her surgeon sending them pictures.  

Madison Goodwin, from Southend-on-Sea in Essex, paid £4,000 in April for the surgery in an effort to make her ‘big, saggy’ breasts perkier. The 19-year-old opted for a cut-price clinic in Istanbul — where thousands of Britons flock to for cheap surgery every year — as she didn’t ‘want to be spending silly amounts of money’

But just days later the model discovered her nipple was bright purple and claimed she overheard a doctor say ‘it was done wrong but I corrected it’. After being reassured it would heal quickly, Ms Goodwin returned to the UK

She was left horrified, however, after removing the bandages 12 days post-surgery to find her skin had turned black and her nipple ‘hanging on by a thread’. She is now waiting for the necrotic tissue to heal or drop off before she can get skin graft in the UK

She was left horrified, however, after removing the bandages 12 days post-surgery to find her skin had turned black and her nipple ‘hanging on by a thread’. 

She is now waiting for the necrotic tissue to heal or drop off before she can get skin graft in the UK.

Recalling her ordeal, Ms Goodwin said: ‘I had a baby in January, unfortunately she was a stillbirth.

‘My boobs felt very saggy and my nipples were really big, they never went back to normal.

‘I just wanted them quite perky and a bit rounder and bigger.

‘At the time I was looking around for surgeons in London but it was £9,000 and I’m saving for a house.

‘I didn’t want to be spending silly amounts of money so I just thought about Turkey because someone I knew had gone to that specific surgeon and they were really happy with their results.’

She added: ‘I felt fully trusting and was like “I’ll just go out there” and it was half the price, it was £4,000.

‘I’m not going to lie, I didn’t really do much research. It was on quite an impulse.

‘I was excited. My mum booked the flights and we really thought we were going to go out there and, although I knew I’d be healing, we really thought it would be like a mini getaway.’

After discovering her nipple was ‘starting to peel off’, she rushed to Southend University Hospital in May and was referred to Broomfield Hospital in Chelmsford the following day

Typically, breast implant surgery costs around £6,000 in the UK. But in Turkey this can be as little as £3,200. 

This does not usually include the cost of consultations or follow-up care.

The NHS warns Britons to understand how the procedure works and the risks involved before going abroad for treatment. 

It advises people to consider if there will be any language barriers, whether they know enough about who is performing the treatment and the facilities available and how to make a complaint if things go wrong. 

After discovering her nipple was ‘starting to peel off’, she rushed to Southend University Hospital in May and was referred to Broomfield Hospital in Chelmsford the following day.

Ms Goodwin said: ‘I went to hospital and explained the situation. The doctor took the bandages off really carefully, you could see it was still hanging on by a thread but it didn’t come off fully.

‘At that point my nipple had become necrotic and was black in certain places. 

‘They sent me to another hospital, when they took the bandages off the nipple came off, it was just a big bit of skin.

‘I’m assuming where my nipple had come off it opened my stitches below my breast so then I had an open wound of stitches.

‘It genuinely looked like a shark bite, I felt horrible. They kept talking that I’d have to get a skin graft or a nipple tattoo.’

She has now been referred by her GP to a wound specialist and claims she has been told her nipple ‘won’t heal unless the necrotic tissue either falls off or gets surgically removed’.

She has now been referred by her GP to a wound specialist and claims she has been told her nipple ‘won’t heal unless the necrotic tissue either falls off or gets surgically removed’

Ms Goodwin, who is due to get married in December, said: ‘ I’m just waiting to see when it heals, there’s only a bit of black necrotic tissue left. Flying back to Turkey for [more] surgery was out of the question, even the hospital said don’t go back to them.’ Pictured, messages between Ms Goodwin and her surgeon

Now Ms Goodwin is urging anyone considering surgery abroad to opt instead for the UK to ensure any issues can be seen to immediately. Pictured, messages between Ms Goodwin and her surgeon

Ms Goodwin, who is due to get married in December, said: ‘I’m just waiting to see when it heals, there’s only a bit of black necrotic tissue left.

‘Flying back to Turkey for [more] surgery was out of the question, even the hospital said don’t go back to them.

‘It’s not necessarily that they did it wrong, the hospital said it’s possibly just your body rejecting it in general [the nipple reconstruction].

‘Their point is that the surgeon in Turkey knew it was going bad and still sent me back, so if they’re comfortable doing that then I shouldn’t trust them.’

Now Ms Goodwin is urging anyone considering surgery abroad to opt instead for the UK to ensure any issues can be seen to immediately. 

She said: ‘I think if you’re ever going to get any kind of lift that should be done in England, because if I’d left it longer and listened to the surgeon I don’t even know what would have happened.

‘They told me at the hospital I could have died if I’d left it longer, it was really, really bad.

British surgeons have raised the alarm about the rising NHS multi-million bill of fixing botched cosmetic ops performed overseas, with costing the NHS an estimated £100,000 alone

The Committee for Advertising Practice (CAP) said ‘too many’ overseas clinics are putting people at risk of harm by promoting their services irresponsibly. Liposuction that offers to remove up to 15 litres of fat, BBL’s, eye colour changing laser treatments and hymenoplasties are all offered in clinics across Turkey

‘Any girl who wants anything to do with their nipples done, just get it in England because it’s so risky.

‘At least if something goes wrong, they’re so on the ball to help you.

‘They’ve said it could take six months to heal. My wedding dress is off the shoulder so I’m hoping it will heal beforehand.’

She added: ‘Now I feel disgusted looking at my boobs.

‘[As a model], my job is based off what my body looks like. I’m flying out to Thailand in a week and my bandages are on show.

‘I can’t even get a nice picture in a bikini. I know that’s not the be-all and end all but that’s my job — I need to look good in clothes.’

Surgeons have grown increasingly concerned about the number of Brits heading to medical tourism hubs like Turkey in recent years.

UK Government data has recorded over 25 deaths of Brits following medical procedures in the country.

The British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (BAAPS) found 324 Brits have needed medical treatment or corrective surgery after having gone under the knife overseas since 2018.

This has surged 94 per cent in three years, the organisation claimed, as increasing numbers of Brits seek to look more like their celebrity idols. 

Turkey was the largest source of botched ops, the BAAPS figures suggested.

Almost 80 per cent of Brits who needed corrective ops in the last year were treated originally in surgical tourism hubs like Istanbul and Ankara.

Procedures to treat botched cosmetic ops cost the NHS millions of pounds each year. 

The British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons analysed 324 cases of Brits needing medical treatment or corrective surgery after having gone under the knife overseas since 2018

BAAPS estimates the average cost to the health service of treating a Brit botched overseas is about £15,000, putting the total bill since 2018 at about £4.8million.

This bill represents the cost of resources like medication and dressings, as well as the time surgeons and other NHS staff must spend on such cases.

While the £15,000 figure is an average, surgeons have previously told this website more serious cases can cost upwards of £100,000 to the taxpayer. 

Some cases include patients suffering infections from improperly cleaned wounds or of surgical tools or objects being left in body after an operation.