A content creator is suing a plastic surgeon for £1.7 million after she was given 'overly large' breast implants which, she believes, ruined her career.
YouTuber Danielle Mansutti, 30, claims she has been left with 'disfigured' breasts after going under the knife three times from December 2020 to May 2021.
The English-born influencer, who has 1.6 million subscribers from sharing makeup tutorials and fashion videos online, said her breast started to droop and her nipple was 'pointing outwards' post-surgery.
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It was only until she went to see a third surgeon when she was told that the implants were too large for her size eight frame, Mansutti claims.
She has claimed that the chest muscles on the left side of her body were tearing off from the bone, leaving her in agonising pain. In May 2021, the vlogger was forced to have the implants removed.
Mansutti is now suing Harley Street plastic surgeon Dr Domenico Mileto, who carried out the original surgery, after alleging that her career has now been affected.
The YouTuber - who was born in the UK and moved to Australia aged 12 before returning to Brighton - says she has now been forced to quit her social media career and leave the UK.
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It's been said that the £1.7 million figure includes potential lost social media earnings of around £1.4 million.
Dr Mileto, however, has argued that she had asked for breasts that size and that the implants weren't too big.
Mansutti's barrister, Caroline Hallissey, said: "The claimant explained to Dr Mileto that she wanted a natural breast appearance.
"She was a size eight dress size and was sure she did not want the appearance of obviously augmented breasts.
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"She was given two or three implants to try, in the range 350-400cc, which were inserted into a sports bra provided by the clinic....when she expressed a preference for the smaller implant, Dr Mileto advised her to go for the larger implant as he said the implant would 'drop' and 'shrink' in time.
"She did not appreciate that different options for implants were available."
Hallissey claimed that her client 'was not advised of any specific risks pertaining to the size of the implant that Dr Mileto had selected for her'.
The third surgeon's note 'records that the pectoral muscle on the left side had become detached from the sternal bone,' the lawyer added.
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Matthew Barnes, for Dr Mileto, has denied the claims, and said: "The claimant showed...a photograph of how she wanted to look, and whilst he did not keep a copy, it was consistent with 400cc implants," he said.
"He gave the claimant the opportunity to try several implant sizes and take photographs so that she could consider her options after the appointment.
"He advised the claimant that she could have a second appointment if she was uncertain about the size."
Notably, Barns said: "Dr Mileto did not advise the claimant that 'in the context of her small frame [the implants] had potential adverse implications for…her pectoral muscles'
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"It is denied that he ought to have advised in those terms.
"It is averred that the extent of the dissection was appropriate for the 400cc implant."
Whereas Deputy Master Claire Toogood KC added that 'but for the injury, she would have continued with her successful social media career performing that in a number of ways'.
This comes after Maria Barker, a costs lawyer for the claimant, said at a hearing before Master Yoxall last week: "This is a £1.7m claim as pleaded. The schedule of loss is big."
It seems that the case is set to return to court for a five-day trial at a later date.
LADbible Group has contacted Danielle Mansutti and Dr Domenico Mileto's legal representatives for comment.
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Anish Vij