Undone: Healing from Botched Cosmetic Surgery

At 39, Michelle Roniak underwent cosmetic surgery—in secrecy.She hated her torso and had spent a lifetime chasing the hourglass figure. Liposuction felt like the final solution. Her surgeon suggested a small gap at the top of her thighs—it was trendy. Why not?A mommy makeover—minus the baby.Her artillery. Her high.There wasn’t a flicker of doubt that anything could go wrong. She’d had Botox, fillers, even a boob job. All successful. All with top professionals—this one included.Botches were for back-alley surgeons.Right? Wrong.What followed was catastrophic. Her body ballooned instead of shrinking. Morphed. Possessed. Grief hit like a terminal diagnosis, and self-blame moved in, savage and unrelenting. Shame swallowed her whole.She couldn’t find a single book, forum, or guide for women like her.So she wrote one.Through that sticky, suffocating grief, a deeper truth surfaced:She had been living with Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD)—a relentless, unspoken battle where perceived flaws became an obsession, and self-acceptance always felt out of reach.Undone: Healing from Botched Cosmetic Surgery is a raw, unflinching memoir about body dysmorphia, plastic surgery gone wrong, and the silent shame women carry. It is for anyone who has battled body image, endured the trauma of a cosmetic surgery nightmare, or is searching for a story of resilience and healing.This is not just a story about what went wrong.It’s about what it takes to come back. Read more