High School Cheerleader, 18, Dies After Breast Surgery


Stephanie Kuleba, an 18-year-old cheerleader from South Florida died of a rare and potentially deadly genetic reaction to general anesthesia known as malignant hyperthermia, which sends the body into shock.

Kuleba was a nearly straight-A student and a soon-to-be pre-med freshman at the University of Florida.

Paramedics were summoned to the teen's aid at the Boca Raton outpatient surgery unit where she'd had reconstructive breast surgery Friday, and they rushed her to Delray Medical Center. She died there the next day.

According to the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, the number of women 18 and younger who have had breast enlargements has risen nearly 500 percent over the past decade -- a sharper climb than the 300 percent increase in breast augmentations among all age groups.

Dr. Stephen Greenberg, a plastic surgeon in Woodbury, estimated he has seen a 20 percent to 30 percent rise in cosmetic procedures among young people. Often, he said, a girl will come in with her parents, who are buying her a breast augmentation as a birthday or high school graduation gift.

"There are girls and women who are devastated by the fact that they don't have breasts and their friends do," Greenberg said. "They don't play gymnastics and they don't go on dates or they can't wear certain clothing, and I hear these things every day."

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What's up with the inflammatory thread titles?

Adult dies from general anesthesia during elective cosmetic surgery after informed consent of surgical risks.

Happens every day. I think it's a stretch to assume she suffered from low self-esteem/negative body image because she was undergoing breast augmentation. Some people just do it because they like big boobs.

God probably wanted her dead.

She should have prayed for bigger boobs.

-18yrs old
-A cheerleader
-has friends with bigger tits than her.
If you think she did it because of any other reason than body issues, you're kiddin yourself.

this shit is so fucked up.

I'd blame men for that.
She would have had a perfectly healthy attitude about her body image had she not been made to believe men want women with big boobs.

She probably did have body issues. Who doesn't?

A good cosmetic surgeon will screen patients for body dysmorphic disorder before any elective procedure.

Either way, that's not what killed her.

You might as well say "Cheerleader dies from societal overemphasis on unrealistic female body type". That's part of the cause, too.


Edit: Dammit Malice!! Stop stealing my thunder!!

I'll admit, we do bear some responsibility. However, the media/entertainment industry feeds those fires more IMO, it's what's men see most of. "Perfection" is what's presented to us constantly in movies, tv, print, online, so the pressure is there for women to keep up.

I personally prefer small boobs myself...*Natalie Portman, I'm lookin at you!*

actually, yes, I was being flippant about it, but it's a true statement regardless...

What are you laughing about?

edit: whoa beaten

Well i was gonna but I only had so many characters, dude!

sorry- I had a couple minutes to kill- I'm off to a meeting now- carry on.

yup, women deserve ZERO blame for being fucking idiots.

malice is totally gonna cut ur balls off now

After the meeting, though.

after thousands of years of repression, subjugation, being treated as property, second class citizens, being denied equal treatment for equal effort, a plethora of double standards that still exist, being treated as nothing more than something for men to slip their dicks into and get off in, with little to no involvement nor interest in them afterwards...

somehow, I don't think of this as " being fucking idiots" as you so eloquently describe, I'm more likely to think of it as a form of brainwashing.

But then I'm a fucking idiot too, so you're perfect able to discount what I have to say anyway. It's one of those many and varied advantages to having a dick. huh?

postponed until about 3pm. :/

Maybe it's going to be such a kickass, exciting meeting that they're waiting till the end of the day so you're all not distracted by how great it was.