3Ib of Dead Muscle Removed From 'Popeye' Bodybuilder's Arms. Look How he Looks Like Now!

Published November 20th, 2019 - 10:57 GMT
The disastrous implants were causing Mr Tereshin 'high fever, strong pain, and weakness'. (Alana Mamaeva)
The disastrous implants were causing Mr Tereshin 'high fever, strong pain, and weakness'. (Alana Mamaeva)
Highlights
Ex- soldier Kirill Tereshin, 23, injected 3 litres of petroleum jelly into each arm.

An ex-Russian soldier nicknamed 'Popeye' for his artificially huge biceps had 3lb of dead muscle removed by surgeons.

Kirill Tereshin, 23, was warned he could die or face amputation if he did not get rid of the three litres of petroleum jelly he injected into each arm. 

Surgeon Dmitry Melnikov, from First Moscow State Medical University, said he was only a quarter of the way through extracting the jelly.

Holding the lump taken from one of his patient's arm, he said: 'Here it is, scar tissue with fragments of muscles.'

Mr Tereshin - who has received international attention for his fake Popeye muscles - will undergo at least three more operations.

He was persuaded to undergo urgent treatment by Alana Mamaeva, 32, a leading campaigner for victims of botched plastic surgery who is married to Russian footballer Pavel Mamaev.

In one video released by Mrs Mamaeva, the worried Mr Tereshin is seen asking the surgeon: 'How many muscles have I lost?' 

After the surgery the medic told him: 'We cannot choose in your case, I tried to explain this to you.

'Because the problem is that this is the petroleum jelly.

'You injected this so thoroughly, that it spread in the muscle and killed it.

'It was dead anyway.'

The surgeon said: 'We have done 25 per cent of the repairs.'

Afterwards, Mr Tereshin will have arm movement but will his fake bulked up muscles will be gone.

Mrs Mamaeva was seen in a pre-surgery video calling him by his Russian nickname 'Bazooka', and describing how his artificial muscles were 'horrible, horrible' compared to his 'slim' body.

The campaigner, who raised funds for his surgery, which she attended, said: 'We are going to try and help this young man.'

Former army conscript Mr Tereshin told her before the operation: 'I am ready, I am not even afraid.' 

Dr Melnikov said: 'Petroleum jelly saturates the muscles, under skin tissues and the skin itself.

'All that has to be removed, but we need to keep the vein, nerves and other functions of the limb.'

He warned: 'Petroleum jelly is not designed for injection, only external application.

'Kirill injected about three litres into each arm.

'It saturated the muscle tissues, blocked blood flow.

'As a result the tissue dies and gets replaced with a scar which is as tough as a tree, you can even knock on it and hear the usual sound.'

The disastrous implants were causing him 'high fever, strong pain, and weakness'.

He was 'lucky' that the damage had remained only in his limbs and not spread to the rest of his body.

'Petroleum jelly affects the whole body, kidneys in particular,' he said.

'I think Kirill did not fully realise the consequences of what he had been doing.'

The first surgery lasted two hours, he said.

The doctor warned that women are increasingly using petroleum jelly for cheap beauty fixes.

'Unfortunately, this is not a rare case,' he said.

'In the whole our country women are often injected with petroleum jelly and so get disfigured.

'Instead of expensive plastic surgery, they agree to petroleum jelly injections and later come to us to remove it.

'We have seen petroleum jelly injected into breasts, buttocks, and other parts of the female body.

'We are warning that it is extremely dangerous.

'It is traumatic for the body, leading to huge scars and without medical treatment it ends even with death.'

A video shows Mr Tereshin's mother spoon-feeding him in hospital after the surgery.

Last month he was defeated in an MMA bout by Oleg Mongol, 43, a fighter twice his age.

It was a second humiliation for Mr Tereshin who earlier this year was floored by Russian slapping champion Vasiliy 'The Dumpling' Kamotskiy.

This article has been adapted from its original source.

 

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