‘Mob Wives’ Star Renee Graziano Shares How Her Harrowing BBL Surgery Went 'Terribly Wrong'
'Mob Wives' star Renee Graziano appeared on the Dumb Blonde podcast where she revealed how she survived abuse, addiction, and the road to recovery after undergoing surgery.
Graziano, 55, described her harrowing journey she experienced after getting a brazilian butt lift, often referred to as a BBL, saying she got her body done "so nobody could talk about me anymore."
"I thought I was gonna have this fabulous figure. I have plastic surgery season one, gone terribly wrong — I die," she begins.
"Surgery day I go in, he does like... a seven hour surgery in four and a half hours. They put the garment on me, they rip me open, I bleed out. Emergency second surgery, never calls 9-1-1, I lost 6.3 pints of blood," she explained.
She continued: "The next day my mom comes and she hears me, and she comes running. I said 'I'm dying.' And I was cold — I was blue. I remember the woman in the ambulance saying 'stay with me, stay with me, stay with me,' and I was like 'just let me go.' "
After a four pint blood transfusion, Graziano went home where she recalls noticing an off-putting smell. With a fever of 101, she was told to return to the hospital where doctors.
"They start with Vancomycin — I'm Vancomycin resistant," she remembered. "Father calls, and the priest says, 'you should say goodbye to your daughter.' "
Preparing to die, Graziano explained that over the next four days she'd read her Catholic Last Rites twice. After grappling with being Vancomycin resistant, she admitted she and her mother thought it was over. However, a twist of events happened after her father had a word with the doctor.
"I think my father might have threatened the doctor," she laughed. "The next day I was on my road to recovery! They said I've defied medical history."
"My plastic surgeon never showed up — ever," she concluded.
"After all the s***t you've been through, Renee, you're still f****g standing, you're still punching life and telling em' it hits like a b***h. You're one tough cookie, dude," host Bunny told Graziano.
BBLs are notorious for having the highest health risks of all cosmetic surgeries. A 2019 report by American Society of Plastic Surgeons stated the procedure has a mortality rate of up to 1 in 3,000.
The mob diva — who was known for sparring with the other women during the hit VH1 series — is now excited to see what's next. She's currently promoting her latest work, launching the very first "Mob Wife" AI headshot pack.
