Dancehall artist Spice says she regrets undergoing surgeries after a near-fatal experience two years ago. The “Suh Me Like It” deejay, who had announced a social media hiatus in October 2022 after releasing her sophomore album “Emancipated” in August faced severe complications following surgeries that led to her being in a body shock.
“I did my last surgery that caused complications at the start of this year,” Spice revealed for the first time in an interview with The Fix. “I actually did six surgeries because of one hernia. The problem is when the first hernia erupted, they had to open me up to go inside me to save my life. My body went into septic shock. The sepsis was actually eating out some of my organs, making them fail, and so they had to come out of me and kinda leave me to self-close because they weren’t able to stitch me back up because of the sepsis.”
She continued, “I show the picture with my entire stomach gone. I am here to say I escaped death. My organs were failing, I couldn’t talk, I was on a breathing machine.”
Explaining the cause of her medical emergency, Spice said, “Hernia is like an opening. I know how I got it, because of all of my surgeries that I have done and the research they have done on my body. I don’t wish to talk about it, but I got hernia because of my surgeries. They cut me open and had to leave me open, so I had an opening inside my stomach wall.”
When asked if she regrets undergoing the body alteration surgeries that caused the hernia, Spice responded, “I almost died, yes.”
The pressures of being an artist and maintaining a certain image often drive artists to undergo body surgeries, but Spice now believes it’s unnecessary. “I don’t feel like you have to do your body if you are an artist. I feel like society wants you to have a certain image or look, but you don’t have to do it,” she stated.
The grammy nominated deejay admitted to having multiple procedures to alter her body to her liking: “I have had my breasts done. When I went over to the DR, I went to change my breast implants. I have had liposuction three times. Every time my belly looked fat, I sucked it out and did liposuction.”
With the influence of social media and celebrity lifestyles, more than 60,000 people a year in the United States get the Brazillian Butt Lif and studies show that the cosmetic surgery has a death rate of 1 in 3000.
