What “Cement Face” lady looks like 21 years later

“As a transgender person, you’re thinking, ‘Oh, my God, I can start to look like I want to look like, and I don’t have to spend a lot of money,”

‘When it finally came to the day, I was more excited than nervous because I was finally going to be the woman I had always wanted to be. There was a room she set up where she performed many medical procedures. It appeared to be pretty sterile,” Narinesingh explained.

“It was like an extra bedroom that she had turned into a clinical area, and I would go in and pay the money. I got injections in my face and my hips, and my buttocks, and initially, I was fine. But then the nightmare started.”

Afterward, Rajee’s face and several other parts of her body became deformed. Large lumps formed under her cheeks, lips, and chin.

Statistics show that transgender people have been provoked and bothered by law enforcement in the US.

For example, a 2014 report on a national survey of LGBT people and people living with HIV found that 73% of respondents had experienced in-person contact with police in the past five years. Of those, 21% experienced hostile attitudes from officers, according to UCLA’s Williams Institute.

Rajee Narinesingh
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“I felt like a monster”
Based on the survey, it’s clear what Rajee Narinesingh’s next step should be. Even though she understood that Morris’s injections couldn’t have been legal, she decided not to go to the police. She was simply too embarrassed.

Narinesingh was even afraid of leaving her house, ashamed of what had happened and how she looked.

“I felt like a monster, I really did,” she told Barcroft Media, as quoted by the NY Post. “A sideshow circus clown.”

In 2012, Rajee began seeing Dr. John Martin of Coral Gables Cosmetic Reconstructive Surgery. He gave her softening injections and laser therapy to treat the botched surgery.

Thanks to Martin, Narinesingh went from “victim to victorious.”

At the same time,, Rajee got her confidence back, and even started dating.

“Now I’m feeling more confident, and with a good bit of makeup, I can achieve somewhat of an exotic look,” she explained.

“Recently, this guy said that being with me is like being with a sexy dragon. I didn’t know whether to slap him or kiss him.”

Rajee Narinesingh
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Furthermore, help arrived in the form of the E! reality series Botched in 2016. Cosmetic surgeons Dr. Terry Dubrow and Dr. Paul Nassif decided to help Rajee by giving her treatments without cost, further softening the bumps on her face.

Rajee Narinesingh – appearance on ‘Botched’
In the beginning, it wasn’t certain that Rajee Narinesingh was to be featured on the show. Initially, in 2015, she was turned away due to the potential risks to her wellbeing. Fortunately, a year later, they found a way to help her.

“I have to make sure my plan is a conservative one, it’s a smart one, and it doesn’t take any undo careless risks with Rajee’s face,” Dr. Dubrow said on the show Botched.

Over seven weeks, Narinesingh underwent four surgeries to remove all the toxic fillers Oneal Ron Morris had put into her body.