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Celebrity Big Brother’s Heidi Montag says she “died for a minute” during controversial surgeries

She famously underwent ten cosmetic surgeries in just one day

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Former Celebrity Big Brother star Heidi Montag claims she “died for a minute” while on the surgeon’s table.

The former Hills star famously underwent ten procedures in just one day back in 2009, including breast and bum augmentation, liposuction and a chin reduction.

In a new interview with Paper magazine, the 31-year-old recalled how her husband, Spencer Pratt, was told she might not make it through the surgeries.

“Spencer thought he lost me,” she said.

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“I died for a minute… My security guards called Spencer and told him, ‘Heidi’s heart stopped. She’s not going to make it.’ And I easily could’ve. Cutting yourself up isn’t something I’d recommend.”

Heidi previously recalled the extreme pain she’d been in following the surgeries, revealing how she was so broken she couldn’t walk or even go to the bathroom.

Heidi pictured outside the ITV studios in 2013. She famously underwent ten cosmetic surgeries in just one day (Credit: Fameflynet)

“I thought that first night that I came out of the hospital, I was gonna die out of pain,” she told ABC News. “I didn’t think I could physically endure that much pain. I mean, I looked like I was hit by a truck. My body went through so much trauma … little precision cuts, you know, throughout my entire body.

“I couldn’t even go to the bathroom. I couldn’t even walk for days. My face was so swollen. You know, my ear, everything had stitches on it. My back was black and blue.”

Heidi told Paper magazine she needed 24-hour nurse care following the procedures, and was prescribed a powerful painkiller as she was in agony.

Heidi Montag at the launch of her new clothing line at Kitson on Robertson Boulevard Los Angeles, California - 19.04.08 Where: Los Angeles, United States When: 30 Nov 1969 Credit: Michael Wright / WENN
Heidi pictured before her surgeries in 2008 (Credit: Michael Wright/ WENN)

She went on to say that she now focuses on the “positives” that came out of the surgeries, which is realising what is important in life.

“I basically had to hit that rock-bottom moment in my life, to realise what was important to me,” she said.

Heidi previously said it was insecurities and nasty comments that drove her to the drastic surgeries. She said there was a pressure to look a certain way in Los Angeles, where she moved as a teenager from a small Colorado town.

Heidi Pratt and son Gunner
Heidi with son Gunner, who was born in October last year (Credit: Instagram @heidipratt)

The star shot to fame as Lauren Conrad’s BFF on MTV reality show The Hills (before they fell out…) and went on to appear in two series of Celebrity Big Brother with husband Spencer.

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Speidi, as they are nicknamed, appeared on the Channel 5 show in both 2013 and 2017.

The couple, who married in 2008, welcomed their first child, son Gunner, in October last year.

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Nancy Brown
Associate Editor