PHOTOS: Transgender Plastic Surgery addict left disabled and disfigured after more than 200 surgeries, speaks out about the dangers

A surgery addict who was left disabled and disfigured after almost 100 unregulated cosmetic procedures now wants to speak out about the dangers facing unsuspecting women desperate for a quick fix.

Monique Allen, who has had more than 200 hundred plastic surgeries, became obsessed with pumping liquid plastic into her body and estimates she has injected almost 12 litres during 75 backstreet ops.

Over the years Monique, 58, has had a staggering 23 nose jobs and nine breast augmentations - taking her to size 38FFF.




Addicted: Transgender plastic surgery addict Monique Allen is registered disabled and can't walk after destroying her body with an estimated 75 illegal backstreet operations







Silicon fan: The retired government worker estimates she has had up to 12 litres of dangerous silicon pumped into her body since she was in her early twenties



The retired government worker said: 'I went in at the deep end with cosmetic surgery and I've ruined the natural good looks I had - I wish I had never done it.


'I've probably had around 200 operations over the years, many of which I can't remember.


'More and more people are dying from illegal silicon injections - many of them young women. I want them to look at me and see the dangers.



'Now I struggle to walk and am registered disabled. I ignored the risks and now I have to live with the results.


'I have severe circulation problems caused by silicon migrating to different parts of my body. Some skin on my legs has died, which I have to cover over with make-up.'


And she admits that even though her surgery addiction has resulted in her extreme appearance, she still craves one more nose job.



Addicted to plastic surgery: Monique Allen tells her story





Just one more: She admits that even though her surgery addiction has resulted in her extreme appearance, she still craves one more nose job





Numerous operations: Over the years Monique, 58, has had a staggering 23 nose jobs and nine breast augmentations





Speaking out: After decades of reckless operations Monique wants to speak out about the dangers facing unsuspecting women desperate for a quick fix










Back in the day: Monique at 28 years old after her gender reassignment in 1982 in Los Angeles, California and (R) aged 37 in 1992




Transgender Monique had gender reassignment surgery aged 22 and soon after achieved the D-cup breasts she desired through surgery.


She next turned her sights on her nose, which has been an obsession over the years.


But after turning to silicon to enhance her curves, Monique became hooked and began seeking out treatment with unregulated doctors.


Twice-married Monique, who is now single, said: 'In my twenties and thirties as soon as I had a couple of hundred dollars I would head to Tijuana to have illegal silicon injections.


'The doctor would numb you then attach a funnel to whichever part of your body you wanted, then screw a vial of silicon on and pump it in.


'I was so reckless but I was obsessed with having more.





As she was: An old photograph of transgender plastic surgery addict Monique Allen at 19 years old as a man in 1974 in Los Angeles, California and at age 18 in 1973 (R)







Augmentation: Transgender Monique had gender reassignment surgery aged 22 and soon after achieved the D-cup breasts she desired through surgery





Splashing the cash: She says that when she had a couple of hundred dollars she would head to Tijuana to have illegal silicon injections


'Once I saw a dark cloud appear under the skin where the silicon was going in - but even that didn't phase me'.

Over the years Monique also had treatment from accredited celebrity doctors including Liberace's plastic surgeon's Dr Jack Startz.

And she was once operated on by infamous doctor John Reginald Brown aka Butcher Brown who was later jailed for manslaughter after one of his patients bled to death.


She said: 'I was completely addicted and unwilling to think of the risks. My family begged me to stop but all I cared about was having more.


'I've destroyed the good looks I had when I was younger. Even now I would like anther nose job but doctors turn me away, but I understand why.

'I've come to the realisation that I have a problem and I'm taking steps to address it.'



Self-destruction: 'My family begged me to stop but all I cared about was having more. I've destroyed the good looks I had when I was younger,' she says

Yet despite being ravaged by her addiction, Monique is celebrated on the LA party circuit where she performs her music as Glamorous Monique.

Monique, who holds the record for the longest serving transgender state employee in US history, said: 'I love to party and everyone knows who I am. I write and perform my own songs at clubs in Los Angeles and have a huge fan base.

'People know me as Glamorous Monique all over the world.'

Over the last few years Monique has spent more than £100,000 having silicon removed from her legs, bottom, cheeks and chin.

She said: 'Silicon was never meant to be put in the body in such large doses as is common now.

'I've heard of "pumping parties" where people go to have vast amounts of silicon injected into their bodies.

'I want young women to look at me before they think about getting unnecessary and dangerous cosmetic work done.

'A lot of this stems from low self-esteem, which is something I am now coming to terms with.'





Growing up: Monique as a 2 year old and aged 35 after her gender realignment in 1990 in Spain




Famous: Monique is celebrated on the LA party circuit where she performs her music as Glamorous Monique







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Pregnant women CAN drink alcohol and coffee, claims controversial new book that aims to dispel 'motherhood myths'

• Economist Emily Oster analysed hundreds of health studies and journals
• She found that many studies were flawed and didn't give the true picture
• Coffee, wine and deli meats such as ham are back on the menu
• The Department of Health recommends limiting alcohol consumption
• Netmums founder Siobhan Freegard was cautiously welcoming

 

Pregnant women can drink alcohol and coffee and dye their hair – but should avoid gardening, according to an expert who aims to dispel ‘motherhood myths’.

Economist and author Emily Oster contradicts conventional wisdom and advocates a much more relaxed approach to pregnancy.

In her book, Expecting Better, she claims a glass of wine a day is fine, plenty of coffee won’t harm the baby and gaining too little weight while pregnant is far more worrying than gaining too much.






Safe? According to Emily Oster, a glass of wine a day is fine during the second and third trimesters


The Harvard-educated associate professor of economics at the University of Chicago used her data skills to rewrite the rules of pregnancy.

Last night she told the Daily Mail that food restrictions were ‘overblown’ and that alcohol consumption does not affect the IQ or behaviour of the child.


She said her book – which found the best studies often painted a different picture from official guidelines – was ‘simply to show women the evidence and let them decide for themselves’.

Miss Oster said: ‘Actually getting the numbers led me to a more relaxed place: a glass of wine every now and then, plenty of coffee, exercise when I wanted it.’






Controversial: Oster's research contradicts received wisdom on drinking during pregnancy



Miss Oster’s quest began when she became pregnant three years ago and was advised to give up her four cups of coffee a day.

Unwilling to do so and frustrated by ‘one long list of rules’, she investigated and found that research linking coffee consumption to higher rates of miscarriage was flawed.

She wrote in one article: ‘I ultimately decided that the weight of evidence didn’t support limiting my consumption very much. I decided to continue.’

Her next port of call was alcohol. She looked at a study in the journal Pediatrics, which had concluded that just one drink a day was enough to put unborn children at risk of behavioural problems.

But the research did not reflect that 18 per cent of the women studied didn’t drink at all and 45 per cent of those who enjoyed a daily drink also took cocaine.

She concluded that women should feel comfortable with one or two drinks a week during the first three months and up to one a day after that.

Her research found that dyeing hair was fine and there was little evidence that exercise, while not unsafe, had any benefits. But she found gardening could raise the risks of exposure to a toxoplasmosis parasite living in the soil.

Toxoplasmosis is caused by a parasite and is acquired from contact with cats and their faeces. A woman contracting it just before or while pregnant can transmit it to her baby.

Miss Oster said: ‘There is some risk to increase birth defects if you do a lot of outdoor gardening when you are pregnant. That can increase rates of toxoplasmosis.’

She discovered sushi was fine and sardines and herring were good for a child’s IQ, but advised against raw milk cheese.

Sceptics were less convinced. A Department of Health spokesman said: ‘Drinking during pregnancy can be associated with miscarriage, foetal alcohol syndrome and low birth weight.’

‘Our advice remains that women who are trying to conceive or who are pregnant should avoid alcohol.’

Netmums website founder, Siobhan Freegard, said: ‘Official guidelines may seem stringent but they are there to err on the side of absolute safety.’

Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom Is Wrong-and What You Really Need to Know, £10.04, is released next week by Orion.





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PAYBACK TIME!: Angry American ex-wife pays divorce settlement in COINS mixed with rice and beans!

Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned - especially when she is armed with loose change and a few plastic containers.

When faced with a court order to pay her ex-husband $50.12 as part of a divorce settlement, the aggrieved spouse ponied up the money in pennies delivered in Tupperware filled with rice and beans.

To add insult to injury, the unnamed woman wrote her husband a stinging farewell note.




Change of pace: When ordered by a judge to pay her ex-husband $50.12 as part of a divorce settlement, an ex-wife ponied up the money in pennies delivered in Plastic containers filled with rice and beans



‘Andy, Here's forty seven dollars and twelve cents in pennies,’ the missive read. ‘The other three dollars paid for the containers that I used. Receipt is included if you want to return them...

‘Oh! one last thing, I added beans and rice to remind you that you married a beaner : ) I hope you have a fab life! B/C I know mines 20x better without you in it!’

Photos of the coins divided into three plastic containers were posted Tuesday by the husband, identified only as Andy from Omaha, Nebraska.

The ex-husband clarified that the ‘beaner’ reference – a racially charged slur used to describe people of Mexican heritage – comes from his wife’s tendency to call herself that in a show ‘pride.’

‘She thought every single person looked at her negatively because she was Hispanic,’ the man claimed.


The story has stirred much interest among the users of the popular site, with many commenters siding with Andy and condemning his ex-wife's stunt.

At least one attorney has even offered to go after the woman to collect the $3 she supposedly owes him, claiming that she had no right to pay him in Tupperware.

In response to several requests from curious Redditors asking him to share the tale of his failed marriage, Andy wrote a lengthy post laying out the facts.

According to the Nebraska resident, he and his ex-wife had a great relationship before they got married, but everything changed soon after they said ‘I do.’

Andy wrote that his once hard-working and dedicated spouse quit her job, failed out of school, started neglecting her chores around the house and morphed into an all-around ‘angry person.’

The first signs of trouble appeared during the couple’s honeymoon, when according to Andy, his blushing bride declared that she is not happy with the location of their romantic getaway and forced him to take her home ahead of schedule.

And that was only the beginning. The already rocky relationship took a turn for the worse when the husband said he discovered that his newlywed wife had invited another man to stay with her for two weeks while he was visiting his parents.

The couple turned for help to a marriage counselor, and for a time things seemed to be looking up for the two, if it weren't for some lingering trust issues.



Note of protest: The unnamed woman wrote her husband a stinging goodbye note, telling him that her life will be 20 times better without him



Andy wrote that a year into their marriage, his spouse revealed that when they first started dating, she had been pregnant with a baby fathered by her old flame, but lost the child.

It all came to ahead when Andy decide to take a peek at his wife’s Facebook account, which she had gone to great lengths to shield from him.

‘I found a conversation with the guy she was pregnant with had been talking our entire relationship,’ he wrote on Reddit. ‘Wat [sic] they were saying was she only married me because he got married, she had already signed divorce papers and was just waiting for me to sign (she didnt).

‘Worst was that I found a conversation about her still planning to “sleep with" him two weeks from when I was reading the messages which was when the relationship was strongest.’

The jilted husband said that the final straw came when his wife threw a glass bottle at him, missing him by a few inches, and then shattered their entertainment center.

However, Andy has admitted that his wife was not entirely to blame for the failure of their marriage, and that he too had issues - like his tendency to play video games for days on end.

*LOL! Can't help laughing....but seriously, how did she think of this kind of revenge?





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VIDEO: Chris Brown Sentenced to 1,000 MORE HOURS Of Community Service

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TMZ - Chris Brown just got his ass handed to him in court -- the judge sentenced him to 1,000 more hours of community labor after the L.A. County D.A. accused him of fudging his records.

As  reported, the D.A. believes the singer violated his probation in the Rihanna beating case by submitting bogus community service reports -- in one case even swearing he was picking up trash in Virginia when he was actually on a private jet to Cancun.

The judge revoked Chris' probation last month in the wake of hit-and-run allegations, but reinstated it yesterday on the condition Chris completes an additional 1,000 hours of community service.

Think of it like a do-over -- because of the discrepancy in Chris' original labor hours, the singer won't get ANY credit for service he may or may not have completed since his conviction. Chris was originally sentenced to 180 days of community labor (1,440 hours).

Unlike last time -- when the judge said Chris could complete his labor in his home state of Virginia -- the judge today ordered that Chris' service must be supervised by L.A. County officials.

Chris can choose between Caltrans (aka highway cleanup), beach cleanup, probation alternative work services (PAWS), or our personal favorite ... graffiti removal.

Chris must also report to a probation officer within the next 48 hours. He did not look happy in court.

The good news ... Chris' probation will finally end in August 2014. One more year to go.

Spain's richest woman and co-founder of ZARA dies at 69

Spain's richest woman, Rosalia Mera, has died aged 69.

She suffered a stroke on the Mediterranean island of Menorca and died Thursday night at a hospital in La Coruna, the city where she was born in Spain's Galicia region.

The self-made billionaire made her fortune by co-founding the High Street brand Zara in 1975 in La Coruna with her then-husband, Armancio Ortega.



Loss: Rosalia Mera died on Thursday after reportedly suffering a stroke


The retail chain specialises in low-priced versions of designer styles - a formula that made it in hit in Spain and other countries around the world.

There are currently 1,763 Zara stores globally and their profits have been boosted by support from trendsetters such as the Duchess of Cambridge and Kim Sears wearing their clothes.

Ms Mera was a major stakeholder in Inditex SA, the owner of the Zara chain that also owns retailers Bershka, Masssimo Dutti, Oysho, Pull & Bear, Stradivarius, Uterque and Zara Home.



Success: She co-founded Zara in 1975 and it went on to be a global brand with stores on High Streets around the world





Fans of the brand: Sales soared after Kate wore a Zara dress the day after she married Prince William, left, while Kim Sears wore a dress from the store as she watched boyfriend Andy Murray on his way to victory at Wimbledon this year


She held 5.1 per cent of Inditex, and her fortune was estimated by Forbes at £3.9bn. The magazine said she was the world's 195th richest person but held the number one spot on its list for 'wealthiest self-made woman'.

Her remarkable rise in fortune began after she quit school at the age of 11 and became a seamstress.

She co-founded the first Zara store in 1975 in La Coruna with Ortega, who is listed by Forbes as the world's third-richest person. The couple divorced in 1986.



Started out as a seamstress: Ms Mera's fortune was this year estimated by Forbes at £3.9bn


Saddened: Her company has paid tribute to the businesswoman

They were originally going to call the store Zorba after the 'Zorba the Greek' movie, but as there was a bar with that name not far from the site of their shop, the letters on the Zorba sign were rearranged to spell out Zara.

As well as the co-founder of Zara, she became known for voicing opposition to the Spanish conservative government's plans to change the country's abortion laws.

She also opposed government cutbacks in the name of austerity affecting Spain's cherished education and national health care programmes.

The Inditex Group today issued an statement on their website expressing its condolences.

It said: 'The Inditex is deeply saddened to learn of the death of Rosalia Mera.

'The Group wishes to send its sincere condolences to her loved ones and friends at this extremely difficult time, after the loss of a person who contributed so much to the origins and development of the Company.'



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