The Brazilian Miss BumBum model left fighting for her life after botched thigh injections has spoken for the first time about her agony - and how she believes it is 'punishment from God' for her obsession with her looks and 'stupid vanity'.
Andressa Urach, 27, claims she died and 'met with her maker' after septic shocked caused her vital organs to fail - and that she believes she has been given a second chance to make amends and right the 'errors' she had made in her life.
In an exclusive interview with MailOnline the beauty - now a Brazilian TV host - sobbed as she told how she had been 'born again' after surviving the terrifying ordeal which even her doctors feared she wouldn't get through alive.
And the model, once considered one of Brazil's most beautiful females, vowed to spend the rest of her life alerting other women to the dangers of drastic surgery.
Recalling the moment she 'died', Andressa said: 'I knew that I'd left my body and died. I arrived in an empty place, like a desert, completely silent. That's when I knew that God exists. I felt his presence. I knew I was at the judgement.
'My life flashed before me like a film. I felt ashamed and knew I wasn't worthy to enter heaven. I asked for forgiveness and begged for another chance, promised to make amends.
'I'll never forget it. Coming face to face with death, I realised that nothing else mattered. Everything I had battled for, my beauty, my bags, my clothes, my car - I'd left all that behind. It was the moment I realised I was nothing, that we are only here on this world to save our souls.'
She continued: 'I'd give everything to turn back time and do things differently. Nobody knows what I'm going through, I'm in constant agony. I'm still in the middle of a horrible nightmare.
'All this I'm going through is punishment for my stupid vanity.
'I'm ashamed of the holes in my legs, the scars that will be there for the rest of my life. But they are also a trophy that I got through this alive. Now, thanks to God, I'm able to tell other women that vanity isn't everything. If all this serves as an example to warn others of the dangers of these things, to save other women from a premature death, then that was the reason I had to go through it.
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