Obsession with beauty almost killed Brazilian pageant runner-up

“I’ve had more than 10 surgeries,” she told CNN. “My nose, my cheekbones, my jaw. I injected my lips numerous times, changed my breasts twice and did liposuction two times.”

In 2012, she got second place in the uniquely Brazilian contest known as Miss Bum-Bum, or Miss Backside. Modeling contracts followed.

“I idolized my body, so it had to be perfect,” she said during the interview in the São Paulo apartment she shares with her 9-year-old son.

Her agent brought out the before-and-after pictures.

First, snapshots of a thin teenage mom nicknamed “Beanpole,” smiling and hugging her baby.

“Like me,” Urach said.

After her nightmarish surgeries to remove hydrogel from her thighs, Urach said, she’ll never go under the knife again.

But she also would never go back to the way she looked before.

“I like the way I look now,” Urach said. “It’s good to take measures to improve your looks, just not excessive measures.”

CNN