Catherine Cando, a 19-year-old Ecuadorian beauty queen, died on the operating table from a botched liposuction procedure, Fox News Latino reports.
The medical student and part-time model won the procedure, along with a car and a tablet, when she was crowned Queen of Durán in October.
Glamour model Catherine Cando, 19, initially declined the surgery she won after being crowed the Queen of Duran in Ecuador last year, believing she didn’t need it.
But after winning the title , she decided she was overweight.
She began taking more exercise in an effort to lose weight, but after numerous calls from the surgeon she was eventually convinced to have the procedure.
Her brother Daniel Zavala, 24, said: “Before having the surgery, she received a lot of calls from the surgeon trying to persuade her to do it, but she kept saying no.
“She was thinking about letting someone else have it as a freebie but eventually she agreed to have it just get him off her back.”
But the teenage model died on the operating table, and the surgeon who performed the liposuction has been arrested on charges of negligence.
Lawyer Carlos Reyes Izquierdo said: “I was told she had died of a brain edema.
“But the clinic staff told her relatives that she had died of a cardiac arrest.
“I have ordered cytological and pathological examinations to find out what exactly happened.”
The death follows that of Brazilian model Pamela Nascimento, 27, who also died during liposuction surgery in 2011.
The cause of her death was registered as hypovolemic shock, where severe blood loss makes the heart unable to pump enough blood to the body.
Last month, Brazilian beauty queen Andressa Urach was left in intensive care after undergoing plastic surgery to boost the size of her thighs.