Rita De Martino, 27, poses for a photo as she holds her removed defective silicone gel breast implants,...
Rita De Martino, 27, poses for a photo as she holds her removed defective silicone gel breast implants, manufactured by the now-defunct French company Poly Implant Prothese (PIP), during an interview with Reuters in Caracas December 30, 2011. De Martino, a Venezuelan journalist, in 2004 had surgery to insert PIP breast implants. She learned in February 2011 that the left prosthesis had ruptured, and had both removed the following April. She decided to make her case public after the head of the country's plastic surgery association told local media that the PIP implants had not been used in Venezuela. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins (VENEZUELA - Tags: SOCIETY HEALTH)