A young aspiring actress receives a TT on a NHS!

An aspiring model whose 36DD taxpayer-funded breasts sparked public anger has criticised a woman for having a £5,000 tummy tuck on the NHS.

Josie Cunningham, 23, fuelled public anger when she had £4,800 worth of breast enlargement surgery on the NHS in January after complaining she had been bullied over her ‘flat’ 32A chest.

But despite the controversy her own treatment caused, she has now criticised single mother and aspiring actress Kelly McManus who had a £5,000 tummy tuck on the NHS – because she wanted a better love life.

War of words: Aspiring model Josie Cunningham, right, whose 36DD taxpayer-funded breasts sparked public anger has criticised Kelly McManus , left, for having a £5,000 tummy tuck on the NHS
Speaking to The Sun, Miss Cunningham said: 'This is an incredible waste of taxpayers' money. Thousands of mothers have the same problem after childbirth. Kelly should have just worked harder at losing her baby bump naturally.'

Miss McManus said she lost her confidence after having three children and was embarrassed to show her ‘mummy tummy’ to men.

She also wanted the surgery to increase her chances of pursuing an acting career because she wants to be the next Julia Roberts.

But the part-time beautician, who earns £7,000 a year, could not afford the procedure and pleaded with doctors to help her get rid of her bulge.

After 18 months of visiting her GP, she was referred to a surgeon for the taxpayer-funded operation.

Miss McManus, who once appeared on ITV’s Jeremy Kyle show, said: ‘What people need to understand is that it has been really hard for me.

‘I constantly looked pregnant and it was affecting my social life. I had no confidence when I went out with my friends.

'But one of the worst things was that I felt embarrassed when I took my clothes off in front of men and so it affected my sex life and I’d just had enough.

‘The new tummy makes me feel a lot more attractive and I have already been out with friends and my sex life is also slowly improving. It is great.

‘And if it helps my career as an actress, something I’ve always wanted, then I don’t think I’ve done anything wrong. It has changed my life and I’m not going to say sorry for that.’

The 27-year-old believes the operation has saved the NHS money in the long term, claiming it would have cost more money to treat her for depression.

She said: ‘After my first child my stomach never went back to its normal size.
‘Then after my third child I began to suffer from a condition where my stomach muscles had separated from my bulge.

‘It had started making me feel really down and I’m not going to apologise for getting it done.’ But campaigners were outraged at the decision to fund the operation when cuts are being made elsewhere in the NHS.

A spokesman for The TaxPayers’ Alliance said: ‘It’s ridiculous that the NHS pays for procedures that are not based on strict medical needs.

‘Patients missing out on vital drugs and treatment will find this deeply unfair.’

However, Miss McManus hit back at her critics, saying she deserved the operation and would urge other woman to follow the same path.

She said: ‘I only did it after I became desperate and knew that I wouldn’t be able to afford it.
‘I hated feeling depressed and now I’m a lot happier and can go out more without feeling self-conscious.
‘I don’t make the decisions about who does and does not get surgery – that’s up to the doctors. So it’s not my fault if people with other conditions are not getting treated properly.

‘I would tell other women to go for it because there is no point feeling down about stuff and you can get it sorted on the NHS.’

At first doctors recommended physiotherapy and exercise for Miss McManus to improve the appearance of her stomach but she claims it did not work.

Eventually, she was referred to a surgeon. The three-hour operation to remove the excess skin on her abdomen was carried out at Bradford Royal Infirmary last month.

She said: ‘It’s only been a few weeks but I feel great and my friends have said the same. It’s a great confidence boost.’

In another case earlier this year, Josie Cunningham, 23, told how she had £4,800 worth of breast enlargement surgery on the NHS in January after complaining she had been bullied over her ‘flat’ 32A chest.

But after undergoing the operation, the aspiring model from Leeds said her 36DD breasts had made her the target of online abuse.

Miss Cunningham then said she would like a reduction and compensation.

She claimed she was not properly consulted before the operation and wanted compensation for clinical negligence and emotional distress.

Miss Cunningham, who works in telesales, consulted no-win, no-fee lawyers so she can ‘take [theNHS] for every penny’.

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Right now when we're barely keeping the NHS afloat stories like this are infuriating! To offer 'elective' surgery to women on the NHS to women who want to 'further their career' actually makes me sick to the stomach.

They should come on here and see how hard working women manage to achieve their goals. They work and they SAVE hard!  

It makes you soooo angry when you think about all the savings we've had to do, our boobie funds etc.... I couldn't even read the full story xx

Me either, blooming infuriating. It makes me die how people really manage to play the system whilst the rest of us work so hard to pay for it grrrrr 

Couldn't agree more with Jen and Sassysazzle. 

How very annoying! All out hard work to earn what we want and she plays the system for it. Makes you feel sick! Xx

Well girls I think we will appreciate ours more, because we have scrimped and scraped and done it on our own.......
I don't even want to get started on this one.... Bloody parasites, feeding on the state! Grrrrrrr

This really makes me mad!! I have suffered on and off with depression throughout my life, & whilst my boobs don't make me depressed, they do are me feel really down at times. Someone actually suggested to me about going to my GP & saying that I was depressed about my boobs & try to get them done on the nhs. But there is absolutely no way I could do that! I don't think I could live with myself.
I would much rather put up with my boobs for a but longer & save the money up myself. 
I do agree with surgery on the NHS if breasts are disfigured in any way, & someone I know had a tummy tuck after their c section healed incorrectly. But just doing it to try & get yourself a freebie is appalling. X

I did go to my gp for help with my boobs!! I was very depressed because of them! 

I couldn't take my kids swimming or on holiday, I would avoid summer like the plague! In fact it was probably my kids that have suffered most because of them. it affected my sex life, my saggy skin was always tucked away safely in an extra padded bra with a top on at bedtime!!

My first gp was fantastic, helped me with what to expect at the phsyciatrists and explained how the system works. After a year of seeing the phsyciatrist I was put forward for surgery and declined surgery! 

I was declined surgery every time my gp applied, and that went on for 4 years! 

As a tax payer, I do believe they should have helped me! I work damn hard, and so does my partner. And I also think that when the nhs encourage women to breast feed they should also be honest about what it actually does to a woman's body, so we can at least start saving for the BA we know we are gonna need! If I had have known, I would have still decided to breast feed, but I also would have started filling up the boobie fund jar at the same time! 

However I don't think for one minute that either of these girls should have had NHS surgery! Their circumstances are totally different from mine. I would have been happy to have had no boob at all than live with what I did have! 

And as for appearing on the Jeremy Kyle show, well do really need to say anymore about the woman?? I think that alone speaks for itself!!

Why on earth are the doctors granting these operations?! That's what I want to know.
Unbelievable.

I think it's disgusting that we live in this "it's everyone else's responsibility to sort out my life" culture. Unfortunately this country has created a rod for it's own back and it's only going to get worse! xxx

That's it, I think some people do definitely deserve cosmetic surgery done on the nhs... But they just seem to be giving it out to the wrong people?? & then those people are encouraging other people to do the same, like its just there to be taken, moral or not. (Though not sure these people actually know what morals are) x

cosmetic surgery will always be a need for some, which unfortunately leaves it open for abuse by others. Although its frustrating I'd much rather save and fund my own surgery rather then lean on an already breaking NHS, and I count myself lucky that I'm in a position to do so xx