Teen Tragedy

A TEENAGE girl who agreed to plastic surgery on a reality TV show so her mother would accept her died on the operating table.

SHE was badly deformed when she was born and was abandoned by her mother. Raised in an orphanage in town of Azovsk, in south-western Russia, Katya Badaeva, 17, ended up appearing on a TV show where she was reunited with her mother, who said she would take her back only if she had an operation to give her a normal face.

Desperate to be part of a normal family unit again, tragic Katya agreed to undergo several operations carried out by plastic surgeon Andrey Ishchenko.

Her mother had explained on the popular Russian TV Show Pust Govoriat (Let Them Talk) that she lived in a small village, and that locals would not accept her daughter looking as she did.