Posted December 01, 2009 in Blog, Plastic Surgery in the News, Uncategorized
Solange Magnano, 38, a model who won the Miss Argentina title in 1994, died Sunday from complications caused by surgery to reshape her buttocks.
The London-based Times Online reported that the doctor who operated on her at a cosmetic surgery center in Buenos Aires might not have been “a real professional,” according to a former president of an Argentinian association of plastic surgeons.
Buenos Aires is one of many foreign destinations for patients seeking relatively inexpensive plastic surgery.
Magnano was a familiar figure in Argentina, though she is little known in the United States. Comments from grieving fans flooded her Facebook fan group, which was renamed “We Miss You, Solange Magnano.”
Last Thursday, she underwent a buttocks augmentation, which usually involves buttocks implants. On Friday, she was hospitalized with a pulmonary embolism, in which a blood clot or other substance blocks the main artery in the lungs.
Fashion designer Roberto Piazza, whose clothes Magnano often modeled, said the buttocks augmentation involved injection of a liquid that unexpectedly “went to her lungs and brain.”
Referring to Magnano, he said, “A woman who had everything lost her life to have a slightly firmer behind.”
Another fashion-world friend said, “She only underwent the procedure because she thought it was no big deal.”
Magnano is survived by her husband and eight-year-old twins.
In the United States, buttocks operations are relatively rare, with only 3,600 performed last year. About 100 times more breast augmentations are done, according to the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery.
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