A GLAM nursery worker who haded her “ridiculous” KK boobs has been left in agony after a botched £8,000 operation to reduce them.
Paige Harvey, from Eyemouth, Berwickshire, hated the attention she received on nights out due to her large chest so took out a loan to make them smaller.
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The petite 18-year-old wanted to rid herself of agonising back pain and skin tears so she could focus on her dream career of becoming a paramedic.
She said: “I had double-K breasts and would have to wear a size 14-16 top even though I was a size 8. I was quite little, but I had this massive chest.
“I wanted to go to uni to be a paramedic so that was the plan – to get the surgery done so it would be easier to do that.
“A single bra would cost no less than £60 because I had to get them all made because I had a 30-inch back but my chest was absolutely massive, I looked ridiculous.
“They were heavy, my back was killing and my skin would tear underneath [them] it was just painful.
“It always attracted the wrong sort of attention too. Going on a night out I didn’t want to be wearing granny jumpers, I just wanted a nice top on like my friends, but there were always comments.”
Paige booked in with a private clinic to reduce her breasts seven sizes to a D-cup and went under the knife in October 2021.
But instead of changing her life for the better, her boob reduction left her in more agony, rotted her nipple off and forced her to take extended time off from her work.
Paige, now 21, claims she was turfed out of the clinic just two hours after having the surgery while still “high as a kite”, and was driven home by her mum.
Halfway home, her horrified mum burst into tears as her wounds split open and left her sitting “in a pile of her own blood” – but was allegedly told by the clinic she was fine.
Over the course of a year Paige says she took more than 30 courses of antibiotics in a bid to shift infections following the surgery.
Horrifying photos also show her breasts ravaged with infection, particularly around the nipple area.
And she later developed a golfball-sized lump in her breasts that doctors said was fat necrosis – death of fat tissue due to injury and loss of blood supply.
In the following weeks Paige claims that’s when the infection ravaged both boobs, with it ‘eating away’ at breast tissue and her nipple.
Recalling her post-op ordeal, Paige said: “A couple of weeks [after surgery] I wasn’t feeling right.
“I got my mum and partner to have a look, they saw it looked a wee bit weepy. It was a little infection, I got antibiotics and was reassured it was totally normal.
“The infection list after that is virtually endless, I was getting more and more ill every other week.
“I was running a temperature, sleeping 16 hours a day and at one point the doctors thought I was on the verge of going septic.
“My whole chest was yellow, black and blue from all the bruising and the underneath was quite red.”
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She added: “Half my nipple was gone because the infection was eating my whole boobs away.
“I went back to the clinic at least twice a month. My concerns weren’t taken seriously at all, they just kept telling me I was fine and one of the times I started crying and the nurse said ‘I think you’re just feeling a bit sorry for yourself’.
“I went back again [because of the infection] and was asked ‘do you even wash your hands?’ Meaning it was my fault I was getting an infection.
“Now I’ve got no feeling left in my chest and lumps everywhere, they’ve butchered me.”
Paige discovered a hard golfball-sized lump in her left breast six months after her op and was referred to Borders General Hospital in Melrose, Scotland, where she was told she had fat necrosis.
Paige said: “I went to my doctor because I found a massive lump in my boob, he sent me straight to hospital because it was so large.
“They said it was fat necrosis, my boob had basically died. It’s smaller now but three years later if I was to wear a top with no bra you can see the grape-sized lump through my clothes.”
Three years on from her surgery, Paige’s breasts have healed but are still “lumpy” due to keloid scars and she now suffers from swelling under her armpits, which is currently being investigated.
She said: “Everything’s healed infection-wise it’s just scars, swelling and three years later I’m still having to go to hospital appointments.
“I now have golfball-sized swelling in my armpit, they don’t know what it is, it hangs out of my bra in a lump. I lift weights at the gym and sometimes it swells up really big.
“I paid £8,00 to go to a D cup and I’m an H cup, so really it was a waste of money, I believe I need another breast reduction.”
“I think the clinic have been disgusting, I would never treat anyone the way I was treated”, she continued.
“I was so ill and the whole time I was insulted – told I was feeling sorry for myself and accused of not washing my hands.”
Three years on from surgery, Paige is now urging anyone looking to undergo a breast reduction to carry out their research and if possible get it done on the NHS.
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“My advice to anyone looking to get a reduction is really do your research”, she said.
“If you can get it on the NHS do that because you know you’ll be looked after. Companies just want the money, that’s it, they certainly did anyway.”
