POSING for her wedding photos, Ionela Ardelean had never felt so confident.

The plunging neckline of her asymmetrical white gown showed off her 34DD implants to perfection — and she felt confident her new husband’s head would never be turned.

But it came at a cost.

Just a few years later, CCTV operator Ionela was left battling hair loss, a failing memory and heart palpitations so debilitating she feared she might die.

She says: “I was just 33 but felt like a frail 85-year-old. And the culprit was my boob job . It felt like my implants were trying to kill me.”

With an estimated 8,000 women going under the knife each year, boob jobs are the UK’s most frequently performed cosmetic surgery.

But not many would have heard about breast implant illness.

It is not currently recognised as

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