A mum was left devastated after jetting off to Turkey for a "mummy makeover" – as it left her "lumpy and bumpy".
Emma Witney, 46, headed to Istanbul on March 7 to get a tummy tuck, breast lift and a "fleur de lis" procedure, which removes abdominal fat.
She paid £7,000 to transform her body – but, just over four months later, she's been left with "unfixable" issues.
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Mum-of-six Emma, from Seaford, East Sussex, still experiences bouts of agonising pain and her body feels "tight and odd".
Emma, a PA to children with additional needs, said she decided to undergo the surgery as she was "depressed", and wanted to give her confidence a boost.
Now she said things have gotten so bad that's she's been prescribed double her anti-depressant dose.
She said: "I paid so much money and now I can't do anything about it.
"Don't take the risk. If you can save enough and do it over here [the UK], do it."
Emma claims she tried to postpone the appointment as her mum had died only the day before – but alleged the clinic said it would be best to go ahead, so she went under the knife.
She was then left in "horrendous" pain after the surgery which continues to this day.
"At first I thought it would be okay after the swelling went down," she continued.
"They told me the bumps were fluid that I'd need to get drained out with lymphatic massages."
"But after 10 weeks of getting specialist massages I was told it's not fluid," she said.
"My tummy goes into a V shape, and it's bumpy too.
"One of my boobs is bigger than the other and my right arm puckers where it's been sewed tightly.
"It feels so tight and odd."
Emma was left with loose skin across her body after having a gastric bypass in December 2020, where she lost 11.5 stone.
She began to look into options for excess skin removal and found a surgery clinic online.
While a "mummy makeover" would have cost up to £27,000 in the UK, she saw the Turkish clinic was offering the same procedure at a rate of just £7,000.
Emma said she couldn't see any negative reviews, so decided to enquire in November 2022.
By December, she was booked in for her procedure for the upcoming March.
Emma said: "I was devastated when they said they couldn't change the date.
"I felt so guilty leaving my children for a week, but I knew I wouldn't be able to go and do it again."
Emma also claims her post-op care wasn't what she would have expected.
"Luckily I had taken my own pain relief over. I can't imagine what I would have done if I hadn't", she added.
Once she arrived back in the UK a week later, Emma said she was told to get lymphatic drainage massages to reduce the swelling.
After spending a further £500 on a course of ten massages, Emma was dismayed to find she would be left permanently with "lumps and bumps".
She said: "There's not much I can do at this point. No one's getting back to me.
"Now I'm healed I've been left all lumpy and bumpy – it's awful.
"I never would have expected to have paid all that money and be left like this. Now I don't have anything left to fix it."
The clinic, which has not been named, has been approached for a comment but did not respond.
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