Julia Myer, a 38-year-old belly dancer of Munich, Germany, was recently awarded roughly $24,000 in damages against a plastic surgeon who suctioned out the tissue in her right buttocks during what was supposed to be liposuction on her thighs.

Myers, who had her surgery performed at the Berlin Charité Hospital, said she didn't realize her buttock was missing until after the surgery. "I had been unhappy with my saddlebags, the fat stored in the outer thigh area. Because of the local anesthesia I did not realize what he was doing. When I saw afterwards that half of my bum was missing I almost fainted. It had been completely sucked away," she said to The Register.

"It was a grave error in treatment," replied a hospital spokesperson. In deciding her case, the court recognized that it not only has affected her self-esteem, but her career is now over.