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By/Dec. 14, 2018 4:49 pm EDT/Updated: Oct. 1, 2019 11:34 am EDT

According a report by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (via USA Today), Americans spend more than $16 billion on cosmetic procedures per year. Of course, some of these plastic surgery patients are your favorite stars. Yup, celebrities are just like us — and here in the real world, things don't always go according to plan. In fact, sometimes things go terribly, terribly wrong.

From Khloe Kardashian to Cardi B, these celebs have nipped, tucked, and Botoxed their way across red carpets. Unfortunately, each one has also witnessed the nasty side of plastic surgery. Sometimes, it's the painful admission that you went a bit heavy-handed with the facial filler. Other times, it's as small as a simple prick of Botox striking (and damaging) a particular nerve. More seriously, it's as terrifying as navigating the seedy world of basement butt injections (Cardi, what were you thinking?) Regardless, most of these famous faces could very well have auditioned for an episode of Botched – and one of them actually did just that! These are some of the worst celebrity plastic surgery blunders.

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This teen mom was two-times botched

Teen Mom star Farrah Abraham didn't let a botched lip implant ruin her passion for plastic surgery — even if the ordeal was terrifying. During the harrowing experience, which she discussed in a 2015 episode of The Doctors (via Us Weekly), the starlet admitted her lips swelled up before she even got a single permanent injection. 'As soon as he touched my lip with whatever numbing product he put in there, my lip was having an allergic reaction right away,' she said. 'I was laying down flat, but I was seeing more of my lip come up and come up. I'm just super happy that I'm alive.'

Abraham visited with the doctors on E!'s hit series Botched, who told her just how risky that snafu was (hint: it was really, really risky). According to Dr. Terry Dubrow (via Jezebel), the 'swelling could've gone into your tongue, the back of your throat, cut off your airway and basically choked you to death.'

This wasn't Abraham's only plastic surgery blunder. According to The Mirror, the star got a third breast augmentation to fix 'burning and pain issues' from surgeries past. It seems like her young daughter Sophia has also caught the plastic surgery bug because she reportedly asked her mama for veneers. Whatever happened to braces?

Kathy Griffin's lipo was anything but funny

Kathy Griffin has always been a comic of great controversy. She went from My Life on the D-List to life on the blacklist following an unfortunate social media scandal that led her straight into a Secret Service investigation. Somehow, she always manages to bounce back (hello, sold-out tour). This habit of flirting with disaster seems to have followed her throughout her career, including the topic of plastic surgery procedures.

Griffin has been open about cosmetic surgery, whether it's a brow lift or a nose job. In a YouTube video with makeup mogul Jeffree Star, the comedian admits that she kicked the habit 'about five years ago' because she 'realized I did not turn into Jennifer Aniston, which was the plan.' The star claims she was 'botched by Botched' in the early aughts following an upper-lip chemical peel performed by — you guessed it — one of the doctors on E!'s reality show. She was supposedly left with permanent discoloration, yet this was hardly her most harrowing plastic surgery snafu.

According to People, Griffin suffered from near-fatal complications after receiving liposuction on her 'stomach, thighs and the inside of [her] knees' in 1999. 'When I woke up I was not able to pee. I got toxicity and had to go to the emergency room and wear a catheter for a week,' she said. 'It was life-threatening, and the results were nonexistent. In fact, I started running after that and got much better results.'

Dana Delany's Botox disaster

In tinsel town, Botox is hardly an anomaly. According to The Hollywood Reporter, women in Los Angeles 'receive twice as many filler, laser and Botox treatments' as their peers on the other coast. For this reason, it shouldn't be surprising that Emmy-winner Dana Delany, a purebred New Yorker, isn't a fan of facial injections — but that doesn't mean she hasn't tried them. The Desperate Housewives actress got Botox on a single occasion, but it left her with lifelong damage.

'My dermatologist was saying, 'You should try it,' she told Prevention (via CBS News) in a 2010 interview. 'He injected my forehead, hit a nerve, and created a huge hematoma. The nerve has been dead ever since.' The nerve damage reportedly left the actress with a 'droopy right eye' and a distaste for plastic surgery. Though Delany claims she'd never go under the knife, she'll happily be on the other side. The star played a neurosurgeon on ABC's Body of Proof, which was cancelled in 2013 after three seasons.

Priscilla Presley's plastic surgery scam

Priscilla Presley is no pink Cadillac, but that didn't stop an alleged doctor from injecting her face with what's essentially auto-shop grease. Um, what? The former Dancing with the Stars contestant, who has thankfully bounced back, was subject to a terrifying plastic surgery scam in the early aughts that put a gigolo behind bars.

TMZreports that Priscilla saw Dr. Daniel Serrano sometime 'around 2003.' The Argentinian doctor had been doling out alleged 'miracle injections that worked better than Botox' to Hollywood A-listers, which included Larry King's wife, Shawn King. The price of each injection was between $300 and $500, and Serrano made house calls. Seems like a dream come true, right? Nope.

Serrano wasn't actually a licensed doctor. According to the Daily Mail, he was 'only licensed as a nurse' when Presley fell victim to the scam. Worse yet: His miracle injections were nothing more than low-grade industrial silicone (i.e. the same stuff used to grease your car when it's in the shop). His work caused 'lumps, paralysis, and holes' in his victims' faces, according to TMZ, and Shawn King was left with a 'lump in her lip that made it difficult to speak and drink liquids.'

Weirdly enough, a number of the illegal procedures took place in singer Lionel Richie's home, reported People. Lionel's estranged wife, Diane Richie, was arrested as an accomplice but never served time.

Denise Richards got more than she bargained for

Denise Richards is a woman of many feats. She planned a surprise wedding in less than 48 hours, got a wedding dress made in less than 24 (which is completely superhuman, if you ask us), and was voted 'Worst Bond Girl Ever' but still emerged as an achingly beautiful actress-slash-model-slash-reality star. Still, even Richards isn't immune to the odd plastic surgery disaster.

In an interview with Us Weekly, she admitted that she regrets getting a boob job. She said she was just 19 years old when she went under the knife and didn't properly research her doctor because she was in 'such a hurry' to have larger breasts. He ended up putting in 'bigger implants' than she requested. She had a second breast surgery to correct the issue but somehow emerged with even bigger implants. 'I felt very vulnerable,' she said. 'I was getting ready to film Wild Things, and I didn't want to get into a lawsuit with some plastic surgeon. It wasn't right what the doctor did, but it is what it is.'

Richards eventually got a third surgery to make her breasts the size she had always wanted. 'I'm happy with them now,' she told Us Weekly. 'But in a year that could change.'

Cardi B had an illegal basement butt procedure

Cardi B's plastic surgery story was bred partly from money moves and partly from insecurity. According to GQ, the rap superstar initially got butt implants to make more money while stripping but also becau