It started with one nose job, ten years ago. Brazilian-born Rodrigo Alves decided to use an inheritance to change the one thing he had always hated about himself.
Fast forward to today and the thirty-year-old flight attendant has spent over £100,000 on 12 operations, including jaw liposuction and six-pack, arm and leg implants.
He claims that he may never end his quest for the perfect face and body, despite almost dying after a recent procedure went horribly wrong.
Brazilian Rodrigo Alves (pictured left, today, and right, before surgery), 30, has spent more than £100,000 in ten years on cosmetic surgery
Rodrigo told This Morning hosts Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield: ‘Growing up in Brazil I hated the way I looked. I’m a naturally smiley person and my nose would spread all over my face. My family would say: “Where did you get that nose from?”
‘It started with a nose job. And it carried on.I did one nose job and I wasn’t happy with it, so went back for another one. I’m still not happy with it.’
Rodrigo before he spent £100,000 on cosmetic surgery procedures to turn himself into a real life Ken doll
Rodrigo, who appeared on the show wearing a smart brown suit and piercing hand-painted contact lenses, claims that he doesn’t have any celebrity role models that he looks up to or wants to emulate, he said: ‘I just want to enhance and better myself, that’s what I am striving
TREATMENTS
Three nose jobs = £30,000
Liposuction on jaw = £3,000
Two six-pack operations = £20,000
Fillers in arms = £7,000
Liposuction on legs = £6,000
Calf-shaping operation = £3,000
Botox and fillers = £8,000
Pec implants = £10,000
Laser lipo for weight loss = £7,000
‘I tried working out to get the results. I went to the best gym in the country, had personal trainers, but it never worked for me. So I went for the quick fix.’
Interestingly, the South American says that he doesn’t want people to copy him: ‘It’s nothing that I’m proud about and I don’t encourage anybody else to do it either,’ but that hasn’t stopped him from ruling out any future operations, despite the dangers.
In January Rodrigo suffered dangerous complications afterundergoing a procedure to enhance his biceps, triceps and shoulders with silicone.
The chemical leaked into his system and within days his arms has swelled so much that he couldn’t feed or bathe himself.
Soon he was back in hospital having litres of fluid drained from his body. He was perilously close to death.
After three weeks in hospital with the support of friends and family, Rodrigo recovered and flew back to the UK.
His long list of surgery includes £8,000 on Botox and fillers, £30,000 on three bouts of nose re-shaping surgery, £3,000 on liposuction to his jaw and £10,000 on pectoral implants.
He has also spent £22,000 on a fake six-pack, £7,000 on fillers to his arms, £7,000 on hospital bills, £7,000 on laser liposuction, £6,000 on leg liposuction and £3,000 on calf shaping.
Additionally he indulges in twice-yearly Botox and filler top-ups and takes a cocktail of daily pills consisting of collagen tablets, anti-water retention and hair growth pills.
Rodrigo said he ‘admires’ Barbie’s boyfriend Ken – because the toy looks like the ‘ideal man’.
But Rodrigo said that he was still considering a fourth nose job while the doctors and nurses around him attempted to save his life.
He said: ‘I was extremely depressed. I would just pray and cry. It was definitely a lesson to me, but I always want more.’
Rodrigo is now being treated for Body Dysmorphia, an anxiety disorder that effects about 1 per cent of the population, he said: ‘I am really hoping that that is going to help me. Help me not to keep changing myself.’
But when This Morning host Phillip asked him what will happen when he is 60 or 70 years old, he replied: ‘I don’t think I’m going to let myself age gracefully.’
