A boob job is practically a prerequisite in Karmen Karma’s line of work — but the OnlyFans model and porn star now says hers nearly “poisoned” her to death.

The 30-year-old brunette bombshell opted to upgrade her already medically enhanced 34F breasts in 2018. Her first breast augmentation, four years earlier, had added 300cc (about 18 cubic inches) to her 34B breasts without a hitch, and now she wanted to further enhance them to 800cc, or about 48.8 more cubic inches.

“I felt a lot of pressure to look a certain way while performing scenes in the adult industry,” the Los Angeles resident told Jam Press. “I felt that if I wanted to get booked for scenes and to be successful I had to have bigger breasts.”

Unlike her first pair of breast implants, though, after getting her second set she immediately began feeling unwell. 

“Almost straight away I didn’t feel right,” said the mother of two. “I had migraines every single day, and my fatigue was so extreme that I couldn’t get out of bed.”

She was taking at least three naps a day, felt chronic fatigue and depression, had migraines so bad she couldn’t get out of bed, began gaining weight and had difficulty breathing and brain fog — all symptoms of much-debated Breast Implant Illness (BII). 

“I thought I was dying,” she said. “I basically couldn’t function as a normal human being.”

She quickly suspected her breasts implants were to blame but couldn’t get confirmation from the many doctors and specialists she saw, who informed her that tests kept “coming back normal.” 

Finally, she independently made the decision to follow her hunch and get the implants removed; she felt “instantly better.” 

“My fake breasts poisoned my body and almost ruined my life,” said Karma in retrospect. “I initially got the surgery so I could be more successful in porn but I ended up only being able to shoot two scenes in a whole year.”

BII symptoms may not appear for months after surgery and tend to reveal themselves slowly when they do, according to experts. Pain, inflammation, skin rashes, hair loss, brain fog, joint aches, digestive issues and fatigue are all symptoms commonly reported by those who believe they are experiencing BII.

However, many doctors have told The Post — despite desperate pleas from sick patients — that BII is not real and that their symptoms must stem from issues unrelated to their implants. 

“Breast implants are the most studied implanted medical devices in the world,” Dr. Daniel Maman, of Manhattan-based 740 Park Plastic Surgery, told The Post in 2018. “There has never been a scientific study in any credible medical literature showing an association” between autoimmune diseases and breast implants, “period.”

“There are women certainly that have these unexplained illnesses and then miraculously get better once the implants are removed,” he added. “But there’s always a placebo effect.”

Dr. Anthony Youn, a Detroit-based plastic surgeon of 17 years with a following of 4.6 million on TikTok, recently broke ranks with the mainstream medical community to declare BII was indeed a reality for some patients.

“Throughout my training, I was told it [breast implant illness] was hogwash — and that’s what I believed,” Dr. Youn told The Post in June, noting that his “most common procedure is breast implants” and that a “vast majority of my patients tolerate breast implants just fine.”

However, he has changed his tune after researching lawsuits, websites and social media groups about breast augmentation horror stories.

“Breast implants can cause a constellation of symptoms in some women, called BII,” he explained in a caption to an Instagram video over the summer. “Yes, I believe it’s REAL. But I also believe that most women do just fine with implants. But definitely not all.”

With many women coming forward to chronicle BII symptoms, the Food and Drug Administration in 2019 issued a broad statement to medical device manufacturers that produce implants, urging that more thorough research be done on their products.

The FDA further updated their analysis in 2020 to their analysis about breast implant devices.

“While the FDA doesn’t have definitive evidence demonstrating breast implants cause these symptoms, the current evidence supports that some patients experience systemic symptoms that may resolve when their breast implants are removed. The FDA is committed to communicating information the agency receives about systemic symptoms reported by patients with breast implants,” the agency wrote.

Karma is far from the only individual to experience BII, which plastic surgeons warn is so common that everyone should be warned about it before getting implants. 

“Surgeons should be warning patients about breast implant illness,” Nora Nugent, a cosmetic surgery consultant with the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons, told the BBC in 2019. 

“I just want women to educate themselves — which is something I did not do,” bikini model Sia Cooper told The Post of her implant experience in 2018. “Do your own research. Be your own health advocate.”

Despite breast augmentation being the most popular cosmetic procedure — about 400,000 per year in the US — “so many women don’t know about it [BII],” Dr. Youn told The Post. “Awareness is so important.”