Canadian-Mexican model, Mary Magdalene, shared a cryptic message on social media before she was found dead in Thailand
Mary Magdalene – the Canadian-Mexican Instagram influencer and cosmetic surgery devotee known for her 38J breast implants – posted an enigmatic message online shortly before her body was discovered in Thailand.
The 33-year-old social media star, whose real name was Denise Ivonne Jarvis Gongora, reportedly fell from the ninth-floor balcony of a high-rise condominium on Tuesday, according to Phuket News.
Mary’s last post shows the closing scene from the film “The Truman Show” where Jim Carrey’s character memorably declares, “In case I don’t see ya, good afternoon, good morning and good night.” She also ominously changed the username of one of her other Instagram accounts to ‘MaryMagdaleneDied’.
Reports claim she was tragically discovered by hotel staff in the car park of the Patong Tower after 1.30pm, just hours after checking in for a single night.
Further reports claim that her body was moved from Patong Hospital to Vachira Phuket Hospital for a comprehensive autopsy to ascertain the precise cause of death.
Since her passing, tributes have come in, including from rapper Kreayshawn, RuPaul’s Drag Race star Plane Jane and influencer Eden the Doll.
Gongora’s brother Ivan also posted a heart-wrenching tribute to his sister on Thursday. Sharing a photo of the two of them enjoying lunch in Mexico, Ivan penned: “I wish I’d spent more getting to know you.” He added: “You are so funny and so creative, way more than I’ll ever be. I love you much more than words will ever say. You are my world. I wish things were different. Thank you for everything I love you sis.”
Gongora had amassed around half a million followers on social media where she showcased her plastic surgeries. She was also a revered artist who gained a cult following for her psychedelic paintings, sculptures and self-portraits.
In various interviews, she revealed that she was raised in a strict religious family where even watching Disney was prohibited. She rebelled at age 12, becoming sexually active and starting to use drugs. “Twelve, thirteen were the wildest years of my life,” she confessed on the No Jumper podcast. “I was doing lines of cocaine. I was going to school drunk in grade seven and eight.”
By the age of 17, Gongora was working as a stripper and later turned to escorting. After gaining internet fame for her looks, she capitalised on her online popularity by joining OnlyFans. “Because of OnlyFans I was able to stop dancing and escorting, which was making me depressed,” she shared. “So now I’m fortunate enough to live off that,” she previously disclosed.
Gongora underwent her first breast augmentation at the age of 21 in Mexico, performed by a local dentist, which unfortunately she suffered complications from. Over time, her cosmetic procedures included brow lifts, fat transfers, facial and body liposuction, multiple rhinoplasties and breast augmentations, veneers, cat-eye surgery, silicone buttock injections, numerous Brazilian butt lifts on top of buttock implants, and much more.
She first gained internet fame in 2018 after undergoing a risky procedure to enlarge her vagina with fillers, aiming to make it ‘the fattest in the world’.
“I almost died during the procedure. I had to get two blood transfusions. The doctor said I was losing so much blood and turning very pale. He thought I was going to die,” she previously revealed. Later, she opted for a vaginoplasty to reverse the enlargement surgery, citing disfigurement of her genital area as the reason.
As many of her surgeries were not legal, she frequently travelled globally, from Colombia to Russia, to undergo these procedures. She has had several near-death experiences on the operating table, and at one point, her buttocks began ‘rotting’ following illegal buttock injections, which she sealed with superglue. In early 2023, she temporarily had only one breast after one of her size 38J implants burst and deflated.
While the cause of the implant rupture remains uncertain, fans speculated that the troubled star might have overfilled it using an expander. The model’s surgeries led to a series of health issues. In 2022, she confessed that her numerous lip procedures had left her unable to close her mouth.
A tattoo on her chest once became infected, leading to a potentially fatal bout of sepsis that saw her rushed to the emergency room. More recently, an attempt to tattoo her eyeballs blue and yellow nearly cost her sight.
In the year leading up to her death, she began covering her entire upper body in pure black ink. Despite her obsession with surgery, she occasionally expressed regret and a longing for a more natural appearance.
In a heartfelt post shared in 2023, she admitted to being ‘trapped in a never-ending cycle’ of plastic surgery, constantly undergoing operations to correct previous botched procedures. “It’s not a fun little adventure anymore, it’s just draining in every possible way,” she lamented.
“My time gets drained, my bank account, my energy, my health. And in the long run, you just kind of end up digging yourself into a really expensive time-consuming hole.”
