27/08/2025
Botched BBL left Sophie Kasaei fighting for life as star recalls being rushed for emergency surgery
Geordie Shore icon Sophie Kasaei haș opened up about her harrowing surgical experience, after a botched Brazilian butt lift left her just moments away from death.
The 35 year old reality star, who has always been open about her plastic surgery journey over the years, has undergone numerous procedures and treatments in her quest to achieve the “perfect” body.
Yet while most of these procedures have gone without a hitch, it was her BBL procedure to enhance her derriere that almost cost Sophie her life.
However, in the most recent episode of the Happy Mum, Happy Baby podcast, Sophie has elaborated a little more on her experience while discussing the nightmare procedure with host Giovanna Fletcher.
"I got a BBL and nearly died. I basically had an abscess growing on my left bum cheek,” Sophie confessed.
"And it took over my whole body to the point where I was, I was (moments) away from them saying I was dead.
"It was horrendous. And I remember being in the hospital bed in South Shields Hospital and my family being there.And I just thought, 'This is this is probably my goodbye.’”
“And the doctor came in. They were like, 'We're going to have to rush into surgery right now.' And I was like, 'What is going on?'
"They said, 'If that abscess bursts inside your body, you were gonna (die)... basically.'"
Continuing Sophie said: “So I was like, I was like, 'All right.’”
Yet even the prospect of potential death wasn’t enough to silence the worries that were plaguing Sophie about her appearance, as she asked the doctor to try and make the scar as small and clean as possible, rather than merely focusing on her health.
“ I remember saying to the doctor, 'Whatever you do, if there's a scar, can you make it, like a really clean scar?’"
“I was still thinking about doing the magazines and what people think if I've got this massive scar. It was just such a. I was 24. I was ten years on now.”
Sophie Kasaei