Usher’s ex-wife Tameka Foster is considering liposuction surgery that never happened.
The fashion stylist, 53, recently revealed to PEOPLE about a 2009 health scare when she went into cardiac arrest while under anesthesia for liposuction.
“I’ve never had one,” she told PEOPLE of the cosmetic procedure. “I went for liposuction and was in cardiac arrest with the anesthesiologist. The doctor never even entered the room.”
Foster — who was married to Usher from 2007 to 2009 — admits that the medical emergency ultimately changed her view of beauty after previously letting the scrutiny and negative comments “shake me up a little bit” while she was married.
“I still care about looks and vanity, but I plan to do it naturally. That’s it. Totally,” she says. “It’s made me a little less lazy about my goals, and I’ve just changed my diet and now I’m intermittent fasting and things like that.”
“So I lost probably 20 pounds. before we started filming the show [Bold & Bougie]. In the past year, I have been very diligent in maintaining my weight at a certain number,” she adds. “I mean, I go up and down, but yeah, I could care less. I’m not very anal about it.”
Usher felt ‘assaulted’ by negative, ‘judgmental’ public opinion when he married ex-wife Tameka Foster (Exclusive)
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Back in 2009, the Brazilian plastic surgeon who was scheduled to perform liposuction on Foster revealed details of the cardiac arrest and how she was temporarily in a medically induced coma. At the time, Foster traveled to Brazil for abdominal liposuction, said Ellen Dasptry, a representative for Sao Paulo plastic surgeon Dr. Silvio Steraman, who was scheduled to perform the surgery.
“Tameka Raymond came here on Friday for liposuction. Shortly after she sank [general] anesthesia, she went into cardiac arrest,” Dasptry told PEOPLE.
After going into cardiac arrest, Foster was immediately revived and placed in an induced coma, according to Dasptry.
“When a seizure like this happens, doctors put the patient to sleep … and make sure everything is fine and there’s no damage,” Daspry explained. “This is the protocol every time and this is what was done.”
After a day in the intensive care unit, Foster was transferred to a larger facility, the Sírio-Libanês Hospital in Sao Paulo, considered one of the best in Brazil, Dasptry said. After nearly a week of recovery, she was “very well.”
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