Fame seeker Jason Napier out of surgery 

Source: ONE News/FacebookFacebook member Jason Napier

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Jason Napier, who sought fame before undergoing life-threatening surgery for a bleed on his brain, has had a successful operation.

Napier had said the one thing he wished for before he underwent surgery was to become famous, saying he had always craved the spotlight.

So he set up the Make Jason Napier Famous page on social networking site Facebook, which when he began nearly a month ago, only had about 100 followers.

But after having his story broadcast on ONE News, the numbers of "friends" on his page began to increase.

Now the 23-year-old Wellingtonian has attracted almost 30,000 "friends".

Napier had a brain abnormality called AVM, a cluster of malformed vessels in the back of his brain prone to rupturing. The condition had threatened his life for five months before he went under the knife.

He came out of surgery on Friday, saying he was feeling relatively good.

"I'm sort of being looked at by the nurses, they keep saying that obviously I don't really need to be here, which is good! I'm feeling really good," Napier says.

He says he is thankful for the support from many strangers who worked on making him famous and says he intends to use that fame for good.

"There's this incredibly positive driving thing that Facebook has become, people are now logging on just to get positive messages from 26,000 other people around the world."

He is now fundraising for charity and has raised almost $2,000 so far.

And Ronald McDonald House is even offering to "cement" his fame. Lionel Whitehead from the organisation says they plan to make him a star.

Whitehead says the organisation has a pavement of stars going into their new house and Napier is going to be one of those stars displayed on the pavement.

Napier says the experience has been incredible and he feels like he has been given a second chance in life.

"It's given me a great sense of wanting to go out there and achieve a lot and that's what I'll be doing."