But I had never considered plastic surgery or anything like that.' I used to model various styles for the customers. 'At the salon, I began experimenting with hair extensions and make-up. But I would just rip the ribbons out my hair and destroy my dress.'Īt the age of fourteen, Krystina left school early and got a job at a local salon as a hairdresser and began to pay more attention to her looks. 'I had three brothers and was the only girl in the family, so my mum would try to make me look pretty. I loved doing boyish things like digging and playing outside. She said: 'As a child, I was never girly. Growing up, Krystina was a playful tomboy who showed no interest in her appearance. She would go on to have another three breast augmentations, costing more than £16,000, to get her to her current 36K bra size.As she was: Krystina, pictured, left, aged 8, and, right, aged 11, said that her friends and family have accepted her love of plastic surgery and supported her decision Just two years later, Krystina got a second £4,000 b00b job, taking her to a 36GG. That same year, she had her first surgical procedure to alter her body, undergoing a £3,600 b00b job to take her from an already ample 32DD to a 34FF, using money she’d earned. In 2001, aged 17, Krystina opened her own hairdressing salon. “I also worked harder so I could earn enough money to afford a breast augmentation,” says Krystina. When Krystina came home from her holiday, she started wearing more make-up, and she used sunbeds regularly to keep up her tanned appearance. I was only 15 and I didn’t have the knowledge or funds to become her,” she explains.
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At the time, it seemed so unachievable and I didn’t know how to go about it. “From that moment onwards, I knew that caricature was my goal.
When she got back to her hotel that night, Krystina couldn’t stop thinking about the drawing. The caricatureled me in the direction that I wanted to go down.” It was as if the artist had seen the potential in me he showed me what I could be if I pushed myself to the limit. He’d done quite an ordinary portrait of my friend, but for some reason, he had gone to town with mine. It was as if finally I knew exactly what I wanted to be. “When I saw the caricature for the first time, that was it,” she remembers. The drawing took just 10 minutes, and when the artist turned the easel round to show Krystina, she was over the moon. I didn’t expect it to be so life-changing.” “I figured it would be a nice souvenir of my holiday. He shouted over to ask if we wanted to get ours done and we agreed,” says Krystina. “My friend and I were strolling down a busy street and this old man was siting there drawing people. When she turned 15, Krystina went on holiday to Ibiza with an older friend and her two children. Her interest in her looks began at 14 when she got a job at a local hairdressers, modelling various styles for the customers. “She was everything I wanted to be.” So Krystina’s spent the past 15 years in pursuit of this perfection… “The woman in the picture was so glamorous,” says Krystina, from Wakefield, West Yorkshire.
But little did she know that this spur-of-the-moment drawing, which only took 10 minutes, would change her life forever – and that she would splash £130,000 on plastic surgery to look just like the finished artwork. Intrigued, she paid him to draw hers, too. Strolling down a promenade, enjoying her holiday in sunny Spain, Krystina Butel did what lots of tourists do and stopped when she saw a local artist drawing funny caricatures.