Cynthia Broche, a Cuban resident in the United States, shared from her hospital bed on TikTok how a cosmetic surgery in Florida led to four emergency interventions due to a severe infection, and revealed that she made the decision to undergo surgery after seeing the results of an influencer on social media.
«Todo comenzó a partir de las redes sociales, vi una influencer, me gustaron sus resultados y decidí ir a operarme en la clínica que ella promociona», explicó Broche en un segundo video publicado el pasado lunes, en el que narra el inicio de su pesadilla.
The procedure performed was a tummy tuck combined with a Brazilian butt lift and 360 liposuction. The surgery lasted just over two hours, but the doctor only saw her 20 minutes before entering the operating room.
Broche describes a series of irregularities from the first contact with the clinic: she never had a formal medical consultation prior; instead, she was received by a coordinator who declared her a "candidate" for the surgery. On the day of the pre-operative appointment, she also did not see the doctor; she only went to pay and sign documents.
"The papers they give you are a bundle of documents that don’t allow you to take a photo, they don’t let you read much, they don’t let you do anything, you can’t go in with your phone to take pictures, nor do they give you anything like a copy, they don’t give you that either," he reported.
The day after the surgery, during the follow-up visit, she was attended to by a nurse—not by the doctor—who detected blood clots on the wound. "That's where my nightmare begins," Broche stated.
The untreated infection escalated to the point where she had to undergo four emergency surgeries. "I never thought that a cosmetic surgery would end up like this. What was once a dream has now turned into a nightmare," she declared from the hospital.
Although in her initial videos she does not reveal the name of the clinic or the doctor, she announced that she will do so soon. "For anyone considering it, at least know what happened to me, know where it happened, and know with whom it happened," she warned.
The case is not isolated. A Cuban mother died in December 2024 after undergoing abdominal plastic surgery at a clinic in Miami. In 2018, Adianet Galbán González, thirty years old, also lost her life after an aesthetic procedure at Kendall Regional Hospital. And in 2019, a Cuban woman spent over two months in a coma after a buttock augmentation performed illegally at her home.
According to a study by Univision, at least 14 women died in five years in Miami due to complications from cosmetic surgeries, and the Brazilian butt lift is considered 20 times more hazardous than other similar procedures.
The role of influencers as a channel for promoting aesthetic clinics adds a concerning dimension to the phenomenon: followers make medical decisions based on visual content without sufficient access to clinical information or prior consultation with a specialist.
Broche concluded his message with a definitive warning: "At least I will never again submit myself to surgery in my life. I learned a lot from this."
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