it was a life and career crisis that prompted stephanie marsh to surgically change her body image. >> the svu star is opening up about her breast implant nightmare and what she leaed herself in a candid new essay. >> i don't see enough to charge him. >> reporter: she's best known for her role as an asis assistant district attorney on tv. now she's revealing a dangerous situation in her personal life. a severe complication she experienced after having breast implants. >> i think she is in a place where she's feeling healed and confident and she's ready to tell the story. >> reporter: in a candid essay j she explains her decision to undergo a surgery during a painful time in her life saying my major of nearly 10 years was falling apart. i decided to change my body because i couldn't change my life. after two months she says my right implant was infected and the seams of the scar on my right breast burst. >> this procedure she thought was going to fix the problems only made everything more on. >> reporter: march finally had the implants removed saying i kept trying to fix my body, and it