Model Claims Breast Implants Swelled, Exploded

Model Vanessa Halstead

Model Starts Facebook, Twitter Movement After Breast Implants Exploded

What happens when your breast implants go boom?

Lest you think it never happens, it totally does, explains one actress/model who experienced it first hand.

I shiver just thinking about it.

Also? Looking at the photos of the exploded boob shortly after my breakfast is making me feel twenty kinds of queasy.

Actress and model Vanessa Halstead explains the pain she was in when she felt her PIP (Poly Implant Prothese) breast implant swell to the size of her head before exploding.

Breast implants hardly seem worth it, right?

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Halstead explains that she got a boob job to help with her modeling career, but the exploding implant happened eight years after she had surgery.

Last October, she noticed problems and had an ultrasound where they discovered the ruptured implant. The clinic where she had the original surgery did little to help.

As a result of the traumatic experience, Halstead started a Facebook and Twitter campaign, Justice 4 PIP Victims, in hopes of having tighter regulations for plastic surgery and to help women get compensated for ruptured implants.

Halstead explains on her website: "At the time I had no idea my implants were PIP - or of the trauma that lay ahead. A trauma that has been shared by thousands of women since news of the scandal broke."

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She thought her implants were covered for 10 years, but notes "after the rupture was diagnosed at Burnley General Hospital I was told that the company that put them in had gone into administration and also my notes had been lost. The new company offered to remove the ruptured implant for free but they wouldn't replace it."

Halstead eventually did remove and replace the implants, but notes that women who have gone through a similar experience "need to know what their options are and where they can go to be treated correctly by fully qualified and approved people - so they don't run the risk of going to a clinic which will just take advantage of them."

Interestingly, Jean-Claude Mas, 72, head of PIP, has been arrested for supplying the faulty breast implants that contain non-medical grade silicone.