Ex-Miss Argentina Solange Magnano dies after buttock surgery

The former Miss Argentina, Solange Magnano, has died from complications after undergoing cosmetic surgery on her buttocks.

Solange Magnano: Ex-Miss Argentina Solange Magnano dies after buttock surgery
Miss Magnano won the beauty pageant in 1994 Credit: Photo: EPA

Miss Magnano, a 38-year-old mother of twins who won the beauty pageant in 1994, died of a pulmonary embolism on Sunday. She had spent three days in a critical condition following a gluteoplasty procedure in Buenos Aires.

A close friend, Roberto Piazza, said the procedure involved injections and the liquid "went to her lungs and brain".

"A woman who had everything lost her life to have a slightly firmer behind," he said.

Miss Magnano's funeral and burial on Monday was shown on national Argentine television.

Dr Gonzalo Cortes y Tristan, who treated the former beauty queen after she fell ill, Miss Magnano had arrived at his hospital with an acute respiratory deficiency.

Her condition deteriorated until she suffered the embolism, he added.