Posted: 5/17/2007 7:06:43 PM EDT
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Women Turn To Internet For Free Breast Implant Surgery "I would like to have bigger breasts. I think it would be great for my self esteem," Jessica Levine told NBC 6. Levine wants to go where Ashley Deck has already been. "I came across free breast implant surgery and checked it out," Deck said. "I actually used the Web site to get my breast implants about six months ago." To help pay for the surgery, she raised $5,000 on MyFreeImplants.com. The site is not a joke or a dating service. It's a place where women ask for donations from men to pay for implants they can't afford on their own. It works much like any other social networking Web site, like Facebook or MySpace. Men and women sign up, create a profile that includes a biography and photo, and then start trying to meet others through the site. Tonya Anderson, a 39-year-old wife and mother, went from an A to a D cup using the $5,600 she raised through MyFreeImplants.com. It took Jennifer Case one year to raise $4,500 for her implant surgery. "The feeling I have now after having the surgery is beyond words," Case told NBC 6. Case's husband, James, said that he was a little apprehensive at first. But he soon changed his mind. "I'm happy with it," James Case said. "What's not to be happy with? A beautiful woman became more beautiful." There are currently over 1,000 women and more than 5,000 men donors on the site. The men pay a small fee -- about $1.20 -- for message credits. They use the credits to send one of the women a message. Every time a woman receives a message, she gets closer to her goal. Participants can also make larger cash donations. In the year the site has been running, 20 women across the country have gotten free breast implants. The donations go directly from the Web site to the doctors. Female participants never see the money. Akeeyla Hayder raised $11,000, more than any other woman on the site. Her goal was to fix what she says were problems from two previous surgeries. Levine, however, has just started using MyFreeImplants.com. "I figured, why not give it a try?" she said. When NBC 6 reporter Willard Shepard asked how much money she had raised so far, she laughed and replied, "$4." But she's confident more money will follow. NBC 6 also spoke with three doctors who said they were paid by MyFreeImplants.com to perform the surgeries. The Web site keeps 10 percent of the cost of each surgery. But if a woman does not reach her goal, the donors get all their money back. 
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