Sophie Kasaei almost died after a botched Brazilian bum lift led to a life-threatening abscess.
Sophie Kasaei regrets getting a BBL which left her in need of life-saving surgery
The 34-year-old 'Geordie Shore' star flew to Turkey 10 years ago to undergo the procedure - which transfers fat from other parts of the body into the buttocks - because she wanted to have a body "like Kim Kardashian" but the op left her with complications that landed her in hospital in need of life-saving surgery.
In a video posted on TikTok, she explained: "As someone who didn't really have many curves, I was like this is amazing. I can look like Kim Kardashian.
"My bum wasn't the best, but looking back now, I wish I'd just got filler or went to the gym."
After having the BBL in Turkey, Sophie was concerned about the bruising as well as "holes" on her back and what looked like "burns marks" but she decided to give her body time to heal.
However, she started to experience pain and ended up in hospital during a holiday in Mexico. She added: "I started getting a pain in my left bum cheek. I thought, 'This can't be right. I am in agony.'
"I was in Mexico at the time, and I actually went to a hospital there. They put me on a drip and started panicking. Everyone was running around."
Sophie was told she had a life-threatening abscess and decided to fly home to the UK for treatment.
She went on: "I told them to book me on a flight home because if I'm going to die, I want to die with my family around me. So off I was back to Newcastle. I went straight to hospital. I had to stay in there overnight, wake up in the morning and go straight into surgery for them to drain this abscess growing on my bum.
"They drained one litre of puss. It was so traumatic. Getting it packed was the worst pain in the world - I screamed the hospital down. It was just hell. I felt ill, I couldn't walk, my whole leg was numb. I couldn't even sit on it. It was just absolute agony."
She needed months of treatment and was left with a "horrendous scar" which looked like she'd suffered a "shark attack" and Sophie insisted the BBL was just not worth it.
Sophie added that she didn't get the results she was hoping for after the operation anyway and as well as the health scare and the scar, it also prompted her to put on weight - so she's warned other young women to think twice before going under the knife.