Tameka Foster Glover Raymond is airbrushed to the heavens covers the April 2011 issue of Sister2Sister magazine where she goes in depth about the plastic surgery procedure that almost cost her life.

So the story goes that Usher had to leave the 2009 Grammy awards unexpectedly and canceled a planned performance at Clive Davis’ Grammy party after his wife at the time, Tameka Foster Glover Raymond suffered cardiac arrest while attempting to get a cheapie nip/tuck in a 3rd world country.

All is well that ends well and while Tameka recovered, Usher jetted back to the states.  Tameka spent a few days in a Brazilian hospital and eventually returned home… alone (but alive) after almost suffering a deadly fate for a flatter tummy.

In her recent interview, Mrs. Raymond reveals that it was all her nanny’s fault that she went to Brazil and once there…. it was the nanny  (a former Brazilian “nurse”) who convinced her to have the “inexpensive” [read.. “CHEAP”] procedure. [insert side-eye here]

I couldn’t make this stuff up if I tried…

I had a Brazilian nanny. It was her son’s birthday. She was very sad she couldn’t go and see him for his birthday.

The tickets are very expensive to go. I had a little slight attitude, and I was like, ‘You want to go to Brazil? We’re gonna go.’ It was one of those Waiting To Exhale moments. You know how women do that?

And when I got there, I started seeing all those pretty people walking around. And I was like ‘Dang!’ And my nanny was formerly a nurse there and she said, ‘Oh yeah, its popular here and inexpensive.

She was even telling me how people would get it and they would snap back so fast. And I just had a little pooch.

I’ve always been a person who has been into my body and staying fit. And I had a baby, like, three months earlier.

And I’m not going to lie, I was mad at my husband at the time so I thought, ‘Let’s take a trip.’  READ MORE

*no comment* 😯

I said everything I had to say on this matter two years ago anyway…