Dinora Rodriguez, a 40-year-old stay-at-home mom, awoke in horror to discover that her surgeon had cut across two "pockets" of breast tissue, which allowed the implants to touch at the middle and create the look of a single breast.

"My breasts looked really bad," she told MSNBC. "It looked like I had one big breast instead of two. And the pain was terrible."

Rodriguez says her surgeon also operated on a scar near her eyes without her permission, giving her an unwanted eye lift that left her unable to completely close her eyes.

She went to the surgeon on the recommendation of a friend, but later found out the doctor was not board-certified, MSNBC reported.

Rodriguez, now featured in an advertising campaign by the American Board of Plastic Surgery to promote the dangers of using unqualified surgeons, sued her surgeon one year after the traumatic incident. Although she received enough to cover a reconstructive surgery, she told ABC she still regrets not investigating the surgeon.