Several years ago, Anivia Cruz-Dilworth was a successful plus-size model in high demand. The picture of flawlessness she presented to the world, however, came at a steep price. Now, the former model, whose career ambition drove her to elective black market plastic surgery, suffers from nonstop physical and emotional pain, brought on by the loss of her career as well as the disfigured state her body has been left in.
The Huffington Post reports that Cruz-Dilworth, who’ll be appearing on Iyanla, Fix My Life this Saturday, never imagined that her modeling aspirations would lead her to such misery. She was signed with Wilhelmina and was in high demand. But in order to stay competitive, the model decided that she needed a larger behind, so she did what many other models do when they want to enhance their looks but can’t afford to visit a surgeon in Beverly Hills: she got her fillers from an unlicensed practitioner who used substances that should never go into a human body. “I was on a couch with a red cookout cup,” Cruz-Dilworth told Iyanla Vanzant. “I didn’t have the money, and I found someone that was affordable.”