A young transgender woman has died after undergoing illegal backstreet bum implant surgery.
Friends said Yessika Hilton desperately wanted a more shapely rear but could not afford buttock implants from a professional clinic..Daily Mirror reports..
Instead, the 25-year-old paid for the plastic surgery at an illegal backstreet clinic - in a garage in Colombia.
Yessika, from the small town of Florida in Colombia’s south-western Valle del Cauca Department, had polymers injected into her buttocks.But as the injection was being administered, the chemicals leaked and spread around her body, causing cardiorespiratory failure.
The young woman was rushed to the Colombia Clinic in the nearby city of Cali, but died hours later.
Local LGBT community representative, Samuel Cano, said: "The intervention was done on Friday in an improvised garage. She was then taken to the Colombia Clinic in Cali where she died."