Model dies after having fillers injected into her face(Photos)

 

A runner-up in one of Brazil's biggest beauty pageants has died after undergoing cosmetic surgery to remove 'laugh lines'.

Friends of model and mother Raquel Santos, 28, told how she was terrified of dying during plastic surgery but was a 'slave to vanity' who submitted herself to 'every procedure imaginable',Uk Mirror reports.


The mum-of-two, who was a finalist in the popular Musa do Brasil competition in December, 

suffered a cardiac arrest following the procedure on Monday, when fillers were injected into her face.
However police are now investigating whether her reportedly daily use of an illegal horse medicine, which she injected before workouts, might have contributed to her death. 

 

Miss Santos' best friend Debora Azevedo told Brazil's G1 website how the model, who leaves behind two sons aged seven and 13, was 'obsessed' with cosmetic surgery.

    She said: "She was very concerned about her looks. She would go off and have procedures without telling her friends so we wouldn't fight with her.
    "She was terrified of dying during surgery. But she did it anyway, that was how much she was obsessed with looking good. And she did every aesthetic procedure imaginable, from artificial tans to lymphatic drainage.
    "She was so vain. She worked out religiously, she was as addicted to working out as she was to plastic surgery."