'Plastic Barbie' Junkie Spends $74,000 On Surgery - Admits She's 'Hooked'

Dec 09, 2020

Tara Jayne McConachy, 31, a cosmetic nurse and Instagram model from Melbourne, Australia is a self-proclaimed plastic surgery addict who has spent nearly $74,000 on breast augmentations and treatments.

Tara Jayne McConachy is a cosmetic nurse and Instagram model from Melbourne, Australia. She has spent AU$100,000 (approximately US$74,000) on getting plastic surgery done on herself and has traveled around the world for the procedures.

According to the Daily Star, she has had five separate breast augmentations and has plans to have her eyes re-coloured to a “more vibrant green,” and ribs removed for a “more tapered waist.”

She told the tabloid, “I’ve had five breast augmentations – my most recent implant size is 1050cc, tip rhinoplasty, buttocks implants, veneers, botox and fillers.”

“I’m like a fine wine, I only get better with age,” the 31-year-old said. “And, of course, surgery!”

Describing herself as “Australia’s Limited Edition Barbie Doll,” on her Instagram account which boasts over 110,000 followers currently, she says she will continue to have surgery done to keep up with her “plastic doll,” aesthetic.

When the lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic started in 2020, McConachy was in Europe getting surgery. 'I had no time to recover properly as Australia was urging residents that were overseas to immediately return home as the borders were closing,' she said.

McConachy runs an OnlyFans account to help pay for her procedures and claims that she made AU$10,000 (approximately US$7,448) in the first three days of posting content. 

She added that there is no limit for her when it comes to going under the knife and planned to visit her surgeon to get her breast size increased when travel was permitted again.

In September of 2020, McConachy reiterated her wishes for more plastic surgery in an episode of season six of Botched, a reality tv series by E! which follows two doctors, plastic surgeons Dr. Terry Dubrow and Dr. Paul Nassif, who “attempt to remedy extreme plastic surgeries gone wrong.”

“I’m on a quest for a bigger chest,” she told the network. “I just love attention so I thought getting plastic surgery and having bigger boobs - that’s going to be the wow factor, it’s going to be exactly what I need.”

She shared that she has always wanted to modify her body ever since she was younger, and that her dad supported it because he “just wanted [her] to be happy.” When McConachy was 20 years old, her father gave her her first breast and lips procedure.

“After I had the procedure, it was almost like a feeling of euphoria came over me and I was just hooked,” she said. “I am obsessed with the industry of aesthetics, it’s just everything I think about. Like, I eat, I breathe, I dream about it. If you can modify your body, why not?”

She added: “Anywhere you can put filler, I will literally put it in my face.”

On their first meeting, the doctors point out that McConachy has “very low body fat,” and that her BMI (body mass index) is “dangerously low.” She shares that she has been turned away several times for filler and botox because of her low body weight, but it doesn't faze her.

“I have about five doctors. So if one says no, I’ll go to any of the other four. And if they say no I’ll just get someone else,” she says. “I always hear that I have too little body fat. But what I always tell people is that I look at food as a way of survival instead of enjoyment. But I’m still a bit extreme sometimes.”

After some discussion about the breast implant sizes she has had in the past and the ones she would like in the future, the doctors advise her to gain weight first.
“You gotta gain some weight,” Dr. Nassif tells her. “Because I’m worried about your health. I’m even worried about you undergoing anesthesia.”

Dr. Dubrow says that he is concerned with how well she will tolerate the anesthesia and how she will fare post-op and during the surgery itself. “You know we don’t judge,” he adds. “We’re all about solutions, trying to help people, but we are also very focused on what will occur as a result of you pushing the envelope.”

According to a 2019 report by The Washington Post, it is estimated that breast augmentation is done to 400,000 women a year. Of which, 75% of them are done for cosmetic reasons, while the rest is done by women who have had mastectomies due to breast cancer.

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