São Paulo, Brazil (CNN)A Miss Bum-Bum runner-up, Andressa Urach, now admits her obsession with beauty -- and cosmetic surgery -- almost killed her. Urach, 27, launched her career as a model and reality TV star with a face and body sculpted in the operating room. "I've had more than 10 surgeries," she told CNN. "My nose, my cheekbones, my jaw. I injected my lips numerous times, changed my breasts twice and did liposuction two times." In 2012, she got second place in the uniquely Brazilian contest known as Miss Bum-Bum, or Miss Backside. Modeling contracts followed. "I idolized my body, so it had to be perfect," she said during the interview in the São Paulo apartment she shares with her 9-year-old son.
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2012 Miss Bum-Bum runner-up Andressa Urach had "more than 10" cosmetic surgeries
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After steroid, hydrogel and PMMA injections in her thighs, she suffered septic shock and was hospitalized
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The lesson she hopes this teaches is, "You have to respect the limits of your body"
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