Horror as fitness influencer’s body started rotting after 60 ‘vitamin jabs’

LOS ANGELES – Beatriz Amma, a fitness fanatic who ‘loved wearing bikinis’, moved to Los Angeles in February 2021 with dreams of becoming an online fitness guru. The 26-year-old headed to a spa, where she paid $800 (R15 128) for shots of vitamin B12 mixed with vitamin C and deoxycholic acid, a popular ‘fat dissolver’ shot.

However, the former health store manager became unwell within hours and eventually went to hospital later after red welts developed all over her skin and left her in so much pain she thought she was ‘going to die’. Doctors told her that tissue around the site of the jabs was dying due to the botched procedure, she claimed.

She was horrified when one medic suggested she wouldn’t be able to wear a bikini again as people would ‘think she had monkeypox’. Now three years later, Beatriz is still suffering complications and taking medicine to keep her symptoms at bay – but is now a fitness and body positivity influencer with 30,000 followers across Instagram and TikTok.