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RAJEE: I felt like a monster, I really did.
A sideshow circus clown.
COMM: She was one of the world's most infamous
victims of black market surgery.
COMM: 46-year-old Rajee Narinesingh's nightmare
began when a fake doctor pumped her body with
a devastating toxic filler.
RAJEE: I got injections in my face, my breasts,
and my hips and my buttocks.
COMM: But now thanks to a kind hearted surgeon
the transgender activist is now rebuilding
her life, and even looking for love. As a
female born in a male's body, Rajee was already
taking hormones and living as a lady when
she decided to take things a step further.
RAJEE: I didn't want to look like a man in
a dress, to be blunt, if you really wanna
truly live as a woman, you need to do some
sort of body and facial reconstruction. That's
when I made the choice to go get injections
done. We call it in our community pumping.
COMM: In 2005 she turned to the now infamous
backstreet surgeon Oneal Ron Morris, known
as The Duchess, spending three thousand dollars
on injections. Morris herself a transgender
woman, was known in the Miami community for
providing cheap alternatives to plastic surgery.
RAJEE: There, that's the apartment right there.
COMM: Today Rajee is facing her demons by
returning to the apartment where her life
changed forever.
RAJEE: Here is where I came to get um the
injections. Initially I was fine but uh...then
the nightmare started.
COMM: Morris has since been jailed for carrying
out another botched operation without a licence.
RAJEE: My message to anyone that would consider
doing what I did is not to do it. Don't do
it., because you could die from it or you
could end up like me, disfigured.
COMM: Rajee was too ashamed to seek help and
hardly left home, until a friend referred
her to Dr. John Martin.
DOCTOR: Just have you lying down here and
we'll get started.
DOCTOR: It was really by far the worst case
of a bad injection that I'd ever seen. We're
not exactly sure what was injected into Rajee's
face. Even trying to get it out you just sort
of chopped away at it like you were chopping
at concrete.
COMM: Dr. Martin sees Rajee once a month,
and is gradually repairing the damage, with
softening injections, and ultrasound and laser
therapy.
DOCTOR: Wow, this one's gone away completely.
RAJEE: I know.
DOCTOR: It's amazing that this has just totally
disappeared.
DOCTOR: The future's looking much more positive
for her face, what I worry about more is the
inflammation in the rest of her body, both
in her breasts and her buttocks where she
has had really large volumes of substance
injected.
DOCTOR: It's a long process but we're getting
there.
RAJEE: And then I'll be able to say I'm naturally
beauty right?
COMM: Thanks to the improvements Rajee Is
once again enjoying here life, and even going
on dates.
RAJEE: I consider myself somewhat of a cougar.
I do tend to like younger men. This guy did
say I reminded him of a sexy dragon, I didn't
know whether to kiss him or slap him!
COMM: Now after years of suffering, things
are finally on the up for Rajee. And although
she may never truly recover from her nightmare
surgery. She's ready to enjoy life and love
once again.
RAJEE: In order for me to truly move on and
do some wonderful things with my life, I have
to be able to forgive, and I have to be able
to move on. I believe that.
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