Kellie Maloney’s Horrific Plastic Surgery Reaction

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KELLIE Maloney, formerly known as boxing promoter Frank Maloney, is lucky to be alive after her facial reconstruction surgery went horribly wrong.
The 61-year-old, who is around 18 months into her transition period to change gender, revealed her mortifying injuries.
She said she feared her head was “going to explode” after the traumatic cosmetic surgery ordeal left her bleeding from the eyes and moments from death.
ot only did the complications land her in intensive care fighting for life she says they also made her look “like Frankenstein’s monster”.
Transsexual Maloney, who had gone under the knife to make her face look more feminine, said, “I was bleeding out of my eyes and I was inunimaginable pain”.
“Then I just felt my head inflating like a balloon. It was getting bigger and bigger by the second, I could hardly see. I feared it was going to explode.”
The heavy internal bleeding — from a shocking ­reaction to the surgery at a clinic in Belgium two weeks ago — caused her head to swell to twice its size and almost stopped her breathing.
Doctors then spent the next 10 hours fighting to save her life.
Maloney, who has three children, is living as a woman and has already undergone hormone therapy, electrolysis to remove excess body hair, counselling and voice coaching.
She had previously undergone surgery in Spain so had no concerns going into her latest surgery which was an operation on her nose, eyelids and cheeks, as well as a facelift.
Doctors have said the reason for her shock reaction is thought to be because of Asprin tablets she had taken to thin her blood after suffering a heart attack.
This is believed to have stopped her surgery wounds from healing properly, which sparked the complications and bleeding.
And while she has been warned that her blood is low on platelets, and must endure regular visits to doctors to ensure she is recovering properly she has been allowed to leave the Belgian hospital and is back home recovering in Maidstone, Kent, with her family.
The doctors are also confident that she will make a full recovery and will be pleased with the final results.
And despite the trauma she suffered, this has not put her off continuing her quest to fully transition into a woman, with Maloney saying she is still determined to have the final operation to become a woman, and is set to have a breast augmentation operation and gender reassignment surgery next at a private clinic.