Daniela RequenHe gained fame for his participation in the Telecinco competition a few months ago. nightmare in heaven third place. This Valencian journalist is in February 2022 LGTBI provincial secretary and diversity of PSPV-PSOE and published her first book last year: ‘Mom, I’m a woman. A trans girl’s diary of her transition.

But Daniela has also become a social influencer: she already has over 800,000 followers on her Tiktok channel, while she has over 73,000 followers on Instagram. Social media is exactly where the controversy broke out after Daniela’s last plastic surgery: change eye color

He even dared to explain that he wanted something between Formentera blue and emerald green, as he said in one of his Tiktok videos that “my eyes will turn from brown to a beautiful greenish blue”. He explained that a few hours before the intervention he had an operation that was not performed in Spain, but now he is a professional who does it in a clinic. The technique, as he explains it, is to paint around your eyes the color you want, and “it’s done in one of the most superficial areas, so it doesn’t affect vision and produces nothing,” he explained.

Possible blindness debate grows

What Daniela did not expect was the turmoil caused by this operation, which is unknown in our country, after a video of Eva Ruiz, a student of Optics and Optometry, was posted on Tiktok. barbarism in the eyes.”

He then explains the dangers of this type of surgery, where “a laser removes pigment from the iris, but that pigment builds up in the aqueous humor inside the eye.” Since this anterior chamber of the eye does not have a drainage function, it becomes blocked, causing increased intraocular pressure, and this leads to pleasant diseases such as colds. glaucoma, optic nerve damage, retinal detachment etc. Long-term: blindness”. “This is a real disgrace and therefore a prohibited surgery in many countries.”

Daniela followed up on this video by posting another video in which this girl explains that “it’s confusing because what she’s not talking about isn’t the keratopigmentation that I’ve had surgery.” Yet dozens of reviews confirmed the contraindications this type of intervention might have, and others accused him of doing it because “the clinic does it for you free of charge.”