Kerry Mullins was inspired by extreme makeover TV shows to get a cosmetic makeover. After five children, 31-year-old Mullins decided to get a mommy makeover to get back to her pre-kids figure. But now after 18 operations, Kerry Mullins is horribly scarred.

Mullins didn’t aspire to look like a supermodel and was jut looking for nips and tucks to make her look better. She paid one of Melbourne’s most renowned plastic surgeons $25,000 for a makeover – she thought that paying the best money would get her the best plastic surgery.

But she ended up in Austin Hospital in excruciating pain from vascular and circulatory problems and a pseudomonas infection. She funded the cosmetic surgery by mortgaging a family home in England. She is now suing the plastic surgeon for medical negligence, including advice and post-operative care.

Mrs. Mullins admits it was her addiction to extreme cosmetic makeover TV shows that encouraged her to first visit the plastic surgeon in January last year.  She said the TV shows gave her the idea to have a range of cosmetic procedures as ‘all in one’ surgery.

Kerry Mullins wanted a breast lift, tummy tuck and liposuction under her chin, inner thighs and under arms. On the surgeon’s advice she stopped smoking and weaned her nine-month-old daughter.

She underwent six hours of surgery at a Melburne private hospital in early 2006. She says she woke in \'a lot of pain\' and the nurse was holding her right breast and looking worried. \'The surgeon came and was putting a needle into my nipple saying it was to help with circulation,\' she said.

\'He said my nipple was dusky and that he had trouble getting the implant into the right breast.\'

Twenty-four hours later he removed the sutures from the breast wound to relieve pressure and 48 hours later she returned to theatre to clean up her wounds. When she woke up her breast was black.

For the next three months, she lived through the agony of having her infected breast splayed open and cleaned. Mrs. Mullins now regrets having had cosmetic surgery.