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| Clane girl Sarah O'Brien went online to myfreeimplants.com to raise money for a boob job. Pic courtesy of the Irish Sun. |
A 21 year old Clane woman who wants to get breast implants has taken to the internet to appeal for the price of the expensive surgery.
Sarah O'Brien says she was always conscious of her size-A bust, and when she came across the American website myfreeimplants.com she decided to give it a go.
“I was always very conscious of it. It's a major complex for me,” she told the Leinster Leader.
The website works by facilitating contact between women facing a bill of €5,000 for a boob job and men who may wish to help them pay for it.
The women post pictures, videos and other information about themselves on the website. The men in turn can chat to the women and request pictures or videos.
According to the website, the money doesn't go directly to the women. It is paid directly to the clinic which performs the surgery.
It also features testimonials of hundreds of women who have raised the required amount for the surgery through the site. And it claims to have tens of thousands of members from all over the world.
Sarah admits that some of the men she contacts are “weirdos”. “I've had some odd requests. One man paid me to watch him taking a shower.
“Sometimes they ask you to masturbate, or to watch them doing the same, but I'm not into that.”
But she told the Leinster Leader, there are plenty of genuine men out there as well, even some she would now class as friends.
“I was chatting to one man the other night about my mother who has died. And I was crying and he was crying. Some of them can be very nice.
Sarah's boyfriend Ciaran, whom she lives with doesn't mind, she says.
“I said to him 'look are you going to pay for this' and he said 'no', so I have to do what I have to do.”
News of her bold surgery bid have spread and she is set to appear on TV3 and on several national and local radio stations.
Sarah says that she has investigated the price of getting the implants. “There's a place in Bray that is cheapest. It's about €5,000.”
So far, in the four months since she joined myfreeimplants.com she has gathered $358, and says she will need to get a total of $6,500 for the job.
And she's hoping that the publicity she's getting for her bid could lead to a deal with a surgery clinic.
“I just wanted to say that it there's a clinic willing to sponsor the operation, I'll use the publicity I'm getting now on TV3 and in the other media to publicise them in return,” she explained.
myfreeimplants.com has attracted attention from all over the world, including one of the biggest chat show hosts in the world, Jay Leno, who was prompted to note: "See that's what's great about America! Here's men lending a helping hand to complete strangers. See that's what makes our country great!"
Update: The following morning, as the paper arrived out into the shops, Sarah announced on our local radio station, KFM, that a clinic in Bray had agreed to sponsor her surgery.
