Saturday, July 5, 2025 - A young New Orleans police officer tragically passed away days after undergoing a Brazilian butt lift procedure, during which she experienced "extreme pain" from the surgery.
Wildelis Rosa, 26, told her family she was traveling from
New Orleans to Miami for her birthday in March, unaware that she planned to
undergo the nip and tuck operation, her older sister, Anamin Vazquez,
told NBC6
Rosa, who was also a US Army Reservist who had just come
back from deployment in Kuwait, had her pre-operative blood work done at
Prestige Plastic Surgery Clinic in South Florida on March 19, and the following
day, doctors removed fat from 12 areas around her body and injected it into the
butt0cks.
An invoice for her Brazilian butt lift, commonly referred to as BBL, shows Rosa paid $7,495 for the cosmetic procedure, which typically ranges from $6,000 to $18,000 in the US but is known to be notoriously cheaper in Miami.
However, Vazquez said they immediately had a feeling “in our
guts like something is wrong.”
“I texted her and I said, ‘I hope you’re doing okay you’re
enjoying your birthday.’ But there was no answer back,” Vazquez said.
The next morning, on March 23, an unidentified friend
staying with Rosa found her unresponsive after she collapsed in the bathroom.
They immediately performed CPR on her, but she was already gone
The Miami-Dade Medical Examiner ruled her cause of death as
a pulmonary embolism from blood clots associated with cosmetic surgery, NBC6
reported.
Her friend told the medical examiner that Rosa went for a
follow-up appointment the day after her surgery, where she complained of
“extreme pain,” and while at their rental, she was having difficulty breathing
and her blood pressure had been “drastically” dropping.
The day before her death, her friend also noted she appeared pale, had dilated pupils, her lips appeared purple, and she said she had no feeling in her legs or feet.
Rosa’s heartbroken sister shared that Rosa also texted
another friend the night before her death, complaining about her blood pressure
and circulation issues in her feet.
Vazquez believes that if these warning signs had been
addressed, her baby sister could still be with them.
“It’s that’s the part that we have to live with because it
was unnecessary for her to die…to die like that,” she said, noting her sister,
the youngest of five siblings, had had hopes of working for the FBI one day
before her life was cut short.
Rosa’s demise marks a string of deaths related to
cosmetic surgeries in Miami, NBC6 reported.
The Miami-Dade Medical Examiner’s Office has certified 25
deaths due to complications with cosmetic procedures, involving several
different doctors and clinics over the last three and a half years.
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