Ken Doll is to get a new £50,000 fake nose on the NHS after contracting a flesh eating bug

A surgery addict who has undergone 42 operations to look like ‘Barbie’s Ken’ is to get a new £50,000 nose on the NHS after his body rejected his latest implant.

Last week air steward Rodrigo Alves, 32, who has spent £305,000 on plastic surgery, was hospitalized with necrosis - when the flesh begins to die - after undergoing his seventh nose job.

Mr Alves, who is originally from Sao Paulo, Brazil, but now lives in London, last week described how following his seventh nose job a hole began to appear and his new septum appeared to come loose.

The hole grew and he began having trouble breathing and so he was sent to hospital in Malaga, Spain, where he was given antibiotics through an IV drip every eight hours.

Doctors warned the infection may eat through his nose into his face - which could become gangrenous - and told him he may have to be removed.

Now, in Britain he is expected to undergo a 10 hour operation which will involve removing cartilage from his rib area and rebuilding his nose from scratch after previous operations have left him with hardly any bone and tissue.

He said today: ‘I can’t breathe through my nose and feel terrible. It has collapsed. I have been given an appointment with a consultant in London in six weeks time and then I’m hoping surgery can be as soon as possible after that.

‘I know I wasn’t born in this country but I work and pay my taxes here and have a British passport so I am entitled to get help from the NHS.

‘I’ve always paid for my other operations myself but this is an emergency because of my breathing problems.’