Plastic surgeon sucks out belly dancer's
buttock
£12,000 damages for half-arsed liposuction
By Lester Haines
Published Friday 16th March 2007 16:05 GMT
A German belly dancer who checked into hospital to have her thighs
trimmed ended up with just one butt cheek after the plastic surgeon
hoovered out her right buttock, Ananova reports.
Julia "Cleopatra" Meyer, 38, of Munich, said of her liposuction
ordeal at the Berlin Charité hospital: "I had been unhappy with my
saddlebags, the fat stored in the outer thigh area. Because of the
local anaesthesia I did not realise what he was doing. When I saw
afterwards that half of my bum was missing I almost fainted. It had
been completely sucked away."
Unsurprisingly, the matter ended in court, where Meyer was awarded
£12,000 damages against the unnamed private plastic surgeon. The
court heard her career is dead and the poor woman "does not even
dare to go to a swimming pool because she is ashamed of the way she
looks".
A consultant at the Berlin Charité hospital chipped in his expert
opinion, describing the arse reduction as a "grave error in
treatment". ®
