Central Asia's Unbridled Cosmetic Surgery Boom

Central Asia's unbridled cosmetic surgery boom

Instead, she was left with severe swelling, an open wound and a legal dispute with the surgeon who performed her botched procedure in Kyrgyzstan. With a swollen face and a gash under her breast where "the stitches came undone" three times, Tergenbayeva barely resembles herself in the pictures taken after the surgery that she showed to AFP. "I couldn't open my eyes, my oxygen saturation and blood pressure had dropped," she said, after developing …