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SAT on the plane staring out of the window, Vicky Quait felt a wave of dizziness wash over her.
The nail technician and amateur bodybuilder from Radlett, Herts, was flying home from Istanbul, Turkey after undergoing a £5,000 boob job in May.
The Love Island superfan had been inspired to have the uplift procedure and implants after admiring the perky breasts of Danica Taylor and Ekin-Su Culculoglu – and decided to have it done at a clinic abroad because it was half the price of surgery in Britain.
But as she began feeling increasingly faint, Vicky, 53, knew something was seriously wrong.
“I blacked out – the next thing I knew, we were on the tarmac and I was being checked over by an ambulance crew,” she recalls.