Chris Brown going ape shit on Rihanna’s face wasn’t the only drama that erupted back in February 2009 during the revelry of the Grammy Awards. A day or so prior to that incident, Usher’s ex-wife, Tameka Foster, almost met her maker when she went into cardiac arrest while receiving anesthesia as she was being prepped to undergo liposuction. Recently, the mother of five spoke to Sister 2 Sister magazine about the experience and what prompted her to want to get plastic surgery. She said:

“I had a Brazilian nanny. It was her son’s birthday. She was very sad she couldn’t go and see him for his birthday. The tickets are very expensive to go. I had a little slight attitude, and I was like, ‘You want to go to Brazil? We’re gonna go.’ It was one of those Waiting To Exhale moments. You know how women do that? And when I got there, I started seeing all those pretty people walking around. And I was like ‘Dang!’ And my nanny was formerly a nurse there and she said, ‘Oh yeah, its popular here and inexpensive.”

“She was even telling me how people would get it and they would snap back so fast. And I just had a little pooch. I’ve always been a person who has been into my body and staying fit. And I had a baby, like, three months earlier. And I’m not going to lie, I was mad at my husband at the time so I thought, ‘Let’s take a trip.’”

“So I took my sister. I took my nanny. And I took my assistant. And everybody was shocked, like, ‘Vacation?’ I was like ‘Yep. I’m going to Brazil.’ And I had never been before and it was beautiful. The weather was hot, so me, I was just trying to be spontaneous. I sent the children to him with another nanny and assistant. I was like, ‘You deal with them.’ You know? ‘You want to be M.I.A. for the most part? You deal with them.’ And when I got there I made a really dumb decision. It was dumb, because it wasn’t nothing a few crunches and another month wouldn’t have gotten off. I never had the surgery. I ended up going into cardiac arrest while I was getting anesthesia.”

SMH…who gets plastic surgery on a whim? The price of beauty maybe pain, but that was just damn foolish! SN: Ol’ girl said she had a Waiting to Exhale moment —you see what stress caused by these damn men will make you do? I’m partial to slashing a couple of tires myself. I’m just saying…

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