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Subscribe to RSSIt’s a stomach-churning video – a young woman turning a silicone buttock implant around and around under her skin and wondering out loud if this could possibly be right.
It’s not, says Dr. Anthony Youn, a Michigan-based plastic surgeon who runs the blog Celebrity Cosmetic Surgery. “It’s pretty shocking,” Youn says.
NBC News was unable to contact the unidentified woman in the video, but Youn said he thinks it’s for real. “When she moves the implant around, it’s shaped like a real buttock implant,” he says.
An increase in the demand for such procedures means surgery-gone-horribly-wrong cases are almost certain to be on the rise, Youn says.
“A lot of people want it but they don’t have the money, so they take it upon themselves to inject substances like silicone,” Youn said in a telephone interview.
“If it’s not performed almost perfectly, you could have major problems.”
This YouTube video shows an unidentified young women who appears to have had a buttock implant incorrectly inserted. Please note graphic nature of the video and comments that follow on the website.
“Major problems” can include death. In Feb. 2011, a 20-year-old British woman died in Philadelphia after getting a bargain-basement buttock enhancement procedure in her hotel room. Just weeks before, 36-year-old Whalesca Castillo was arrested for operating without a license and injecting women’s breasts and buttocks with liquid silicone from her home in the Bronx. She was sentenced to a year in prison after pleading guilty this past June.
In July, Oneal Ron Morris of Miami was charged with manslaughter in the death last March of Shatarka Nuby, 31. Morris was already facing charges of practicing health care and without a license and causing serious bodily injury for allegedly injecting at least two women with a toxic mixture of Fix-a-Flat tire sealant, mineral oil and cement in a backroom attempt at buttock enhancement. Nuby died after receiving injections to enlarge her breasts, allegedly from Oneal.
The American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery has a long list of such incidents. “Disturbing reports of patients being injected with everything from liquid silicone to baby oil and other unapproved products are appearing in the press on a regular basis," the group says on its website. "Make sure your clinician is using only FDA-approved products purchased within the United States. If he or she refuses to give you this information, seek another clinician.”
Gluteal enhancement – known colloquially as “butt implants” -- are among the more unusual cosmetic procedures that people ask for but are becoming more common, according to the American Society for Plastic Surgeons.
Its data shows that in 2011, 1,149 people got buttock implants, compared to 806 in 2010. There are no statistics for earlier years. That compares to 4,546 people who got buttock lifts in 2011, and 301,000 who got breast augmentation. The American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery counted 2,100 buttock augmentation procedures in 2004.
When so many people are trying to lose weight, why the pursuit of a larger derriere? “It really started with J-Lo,” says Youn. Singer Jennifer Lopez is known for her curves – especially her shapely bottom. “Part of it is cultural, I think,” added Youn. “We have a popular culture that puts an emphasis on the size of the buttocks.”
He points to Kate Middleton’s younger sister Pippa, whose profile in a tight dress grabbed attention at Middleton’s 2011 wedding to Britain’s Prince William -- but the phenomenon goes back even farther, to Sir Mix-a-Lot’s 1992 hit “Baby Got Back,” which starts with the line “I like big butts”.
For people who want such enhancements, it’s important to go to a professional with a lot of experience, Youn says. Board certified plastic surgeons are members of the American Society for Plastic Surgeons or the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, or both. “And you want to make sure they do a lot of these every year. It’s not for the novice doctor,” Youn advises.
Youn says he won’t do buttock implants, but will inject fat to enhance various body areas. A lot can go wrong, he said.
“One reason it is fraught with complications is the area where you put the implant, we consider it a dirty area,” Youn said. “Implants, if they get any type of bacteria on them, can get infected very easily.”
And that can cause a complication no one wants. “When implants get infected they can literally extrude. The body can open the incision and try to push it back out,” he said.
Second, the gluteus maximus is the largest muscle in the body, and needs big blood vessels to supply it. If silicone gets into the blood, it can cause embolisms, which are painful and potentially deadly if they end up in the heart or brain.
The operation itself isn’t fun. “It is a painful operation because you have to sit on that area,” Youn said. “You have to literally avoid sitting on your bottom for weeks afterward.”
Or something might happen like the YouTube video shows.
“If the pocket that the implant was put in is too big, then the implant will move around like that,” Youn says. “I have seen it with breast implants. You can literally flip the implant around in your breast.”
Buttock implants are shaped with one rounded side and one flat side, Youn said, “You want to put it in the buttocks like a hand in a glove where it really doesn’t move.”
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That is just beyond awful!!!!
"Does this make my ass look flat?"
Hey Cheetah, glad I wasn't taking a drink when I read that...where's scooter tramp when we need him??? ;D
Concentrated stupidity in the name of vanity
I don't feel sorry for them one bit. If they are that dumb to let someone put something like that in their bodies on the cheap they get what they deserve.
With all that cottage cheese why did she think she needed to make what appears to be already a huge ass even bigger? What a stupid chick.
I'm sorry, I cna't type right.... still laugh'n!
Well maybe if she didn't have grotesque floppy skin to begin with it wouldn't be able to slide around like an ice cube in a garbage bag. Maybe consider lipo, a normal sized butt instead of ludicrous sized, geez, I don't know...invest in a full-length mirror maybe? There are so many things for women to be happy with about their bodies and their minds instead of striving to look like anime' female villains. What the hell is wrong with people????
Awful? Is that the best word you could think? This is sick, if you have even one inkling of doing this to your body see a psychiatrist, PLEASE!
I wonder what the implant on her forehead looks like?!?
Believe it or not, it looks better than what I had imagined when I read the title "backward butt implant"... also thought it might be something Congress suffered from... a bunch of backward butts for sure.
Ass-backwards people
My momma always said, "Stupid is as stupid does."
What she should have added was, "There's no fixing stupid."
The brainless woman who had the implant done got what was coming. Didn't need it anyway.
I didn't really want to see the video - the still in the frame was enough!
Why the hell would you want more butt when you have so much there in the first place?!
Did she leave her brain at the door in exchange?
Well, this headline absolutely verifies what I have long expected, which is that NBCNews.com writers are the most incompetent on the planet and will skew any headline for the sake of getting clicks. There is nothing backward about the implant. It moves around, but it isn't backward. Do you writers even have a clue?
ChrisWanker: If I were a betting sailor, I'd wager that it was in the shape of an 'L'.....
Want a bigger butt? Try these: twinkies. Guaranteed to work.
Atticus- did you watch the video? The implant can be easily manuevered so that it is backward of its original, intended position. Instead of the front of the implant sticking out, the back is sticking out, thus backward.
I saw stills on another site. The implant was most definitely backward, flat side facing outward, and she moved it back into place. This whole fad of butt implants is just disgusting.
I have a number of different butt prostheses, allowing me to safely change butt size, curvature, and pliability for any occasion. For a wedding, I usually choose the mid-size, softly pliable, gently curved model called The Cooshe, because it subtly accentuates the sleekness of my tight-fitting, short-skirted formal wear. For going out to the club, I like the full-size, non-pliable, sharply curved model called The Rotundra, because a lot of people seem to like bumping into it on the dance floor. Best of all, I can safely take them off at night, which is great, since, from my experience, men who claim to like big butts only like to look at them under clothing, but not in the nude. Or they just don't really like big butts, after all.
Why get a implant? Do it the old fashioned way like my wife. Have children, eat to damn much crap, sit around doing nothing, and avoid all exercise like it caused AIDS.
First risking skin cancer to make their skin darker, now getting risky butt implants. If I didn't know better, it seems more and more that white women really just want to be more like black women.
The Taliban's right! We should all, as a country, kill ourselves.
In the doctor's defense, he needed a hec of a lot of material to fill that one.
They want a big round a s s not a big flabby one. There is a difference.
I'll take a nice small round shapely butt over a woman who looks like she has a couple of beach balls hanging from her waist anyday
lazy assed people!! if she wants shaped to her ass she needs to stop sitting in it all the time and get on the stair master.
Sad story. This CNN report emphasizes the importance of getting a proper physician who knows what he's doing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTeHY6WsGy4
How about about not getting a ridiculously stupid surgery like a buttocks enlargement, instead?
LOL @ Pygar, yes, yes.
You can't get any infections when you pay MORE for hospital/doctor/plastic surgery! Said no doctor EVER. What a moron claiming that paying MORE for plastic surgery guarantees you better results. Looking at Cher, I'd say "NOT" Looking at 99% of the botox celebs I'd say "NOT" and DEFINITELY been proven that most of the MRSA infections are gotten IN HOSPITALS and DOCTOR'S offices.
As for why? well gee, let's forget all the comments people already made about her being "fat." God forbid a person be considered beautiful no matter the shape or the size. THAT'S why, morons. Because YOU already have a judgment on her shape. She wanted to change it because it didn't meet YOUR standards so she thought she had to change it for HER beauty to be recognized. And yes, there are men who like that kind of thing.
These people need brain implants as well
She looks like she had a nice tiny waist thin legs WHY make your butt OVERLY big where it doesnt look proportionate.. I dont get it.
"Thin legs" ? Are you serious ? Look at the thigh ? This body looks deformed.
She obviously has some mental health issues to get such a dumb surgery.
That is a giant ass even without that little implant?
Huh? Thin legs? We looking at the same video??
She was already large. She just enhanced it to create the humongous ass look.
The very first problem with the gluteal enhancement in question, was that the patient required a significant cranial enhancement!
She may have previously had brain reduction surgery.
Why the h&// would anyone want a huge ass?
Other than a Kardashian.
I happen to think Kim Kardashian's ass is VERY desirable. Well perhaps not HER ass (it's getting a lot of mileage from many drivers), but one shaped just like hers is beautiful. She really does have a gorgeous body. The question is, why would any sane woman want to sit on 2 blobs of gel all the time?
Kardashian is a fat girl, and some guys like fatties.
I like big butts and I cannot lie.
I do too tfnj....and zheng kardashian is far from fat unless u are comparing her to twiggy.
Hec yeah. I find her curvy
We can only hope that brain implants aren't too far in the future as idiots like this lady are only lowering the IQ gene pool levels and showing it by getting her butt implants in the first place.
Hopefully she'll end up sterile.
Yo Steve, I actually agree with you for once :O
Hey, I might go for a brain implant and lord knows I sure as hell don't need one! :P
Brain implants are already here. They're called bagel-heads and they're all the rage in Japan. Saline is injected into the forehead until it bulges - then squished to form a bagel shape. The saline is absorbed by the body within a day or two and the weird shaped forehead goes away.
Dumb kids think it's a kick. Sooner or later, I'm sure they'll discover the saline has leaking into their eye sockets and destroyed their optic nerves or some gland or whatever...
The moral is that when you ask for stupid and unnatural alterations to your body, you will get bad results in the long run. Remember when kids thought firing off an high-pressure air hose up their rear was a fun thing to do -- until all the reports of people shredding their intestines with too much air!
Desertbro - bagel heads are not brain implants, Einstein. A brain implant implies addition of brain cells to make people smarted, not saline under the skin of the forehead.
"What was the name on the jar you brought me?" "Abby.... Abby Normal" "You brought me an abnormal brrraaaaiiiinnn!!!!!???????!!!!!"
Even if that surgery was done perfectly, that is one horrendous looking butt. You should be sucking stuff out of that rump, not putting anything in to it. It was already too fat and stretched out. What were you thinking? Nice tramp stamp. You got exactly what you deserved...and paid for.
ROFLM "ASS" O!!!!!!! :P
The article reports that Middleton married Prince Harry. Fact check much, MSNBC?
Ladies... WHY? Yes, curvy women are attractive, but there are many people who like their ladies less curvy. And a natural, less curvy woman is more desirable than than a woman who has had a bunch of artificial stuff shoved inside of her. If you're not curvy, just keep your muscles toned and your skin healthy, and just be a wonderful personality. I can understand breast implants if cancer took away what you once had, and you want to feel "whole" again. But silicone shoved inside for the sake of a larger bust or more junk in the trunk, seems silly to me.
Thanks Mike, you make me feel like a natural born 'WOMAN'----NOT SOME FREAKING SIDE SHOW FREAK!!!!! EEKS :O
Bless you, Mike...i don't know one single man (except the shallow, balding, doesn't-care-if-its-fake-or-not-as-long-as-they-look-at-her-instead-of-my-bad-rug guy) who would want to grab a hold of that, but it would be funny as hell to see, if it happened. It's just too bad it took me til I was in my 40's to give up on big boobs (beings that is when they suddenly decided to start growing, along with the inevitable pull of gravity on everything else, sheesh) and be happy with being healthy, outdoorsy and happy in my skin. The first thing that would scare me if I woke up with that butt is "oh my God, how will I fit in my saddle????" Thank God for those of us who can be happy with who we are, and the men who wouldn't have us any other way.
Talk about making an ass of yourself!
Ok, I would like to puke now after seeing that disgusting butt!!
I agree - it is nasty! I am not sure why butts are some type of attraction for men on either sex! They just hide what is used for one of the most disgusting body functions.
Yuk!!
Maggie Fox must be a white person. Never heard a black guy talk about white women's flat asses?
Looks like my ex girl friend.
Did she have a big ole jell-o disk bootie too? And if so what attracted you to her in the 1st place?...nevermind
LMAO!!
I can't help but think of all the women who struggle, exercise, and diet to lose weight to have a smaller derriere and then someone thinks that a bigger one will make her more attractive?
File this under totally asinine ... ;) (sorry, couldn't resist)
I hear ya Abby! ;D
You know Abby, I have a friend who had gastric bypass surgery a few years before I knew her and she went from being very large to very small quite quickly. After a few years she put on a bit of weight and now she's considered chubby or thick. She said that more people (mostly those she knew) thought she looked great when she was thin, but she said she didn't feel great, more like a deflated balloon. She said that as she gained more weight back she realized that being thin didn't make her happy, but being happy with herself for who she was, was what made her realize that her self worth didn't lie in being thin, but rather being who she was inside and not outside
Lots of men like big butts actually. I certainly see more women with big butts accompanied by men or getting checked by men, than women who have flat butts. Latin men especially like big butts like JLo's or Kim K's, whereas Anglo men normally go for big chests instead.
Hotinmiami
It's not size of the butt. Most men don't like flat butts, they want them to have some roundness to it. And for me the rounder the better cause those are the ones that accentuate the shape of the waist and butt cheeks.
I did not watch the video. I find enough ugliness in day to day life.
But regardless of the slipshod methods, who the heck gets a butt implant? Boobs, I can understand, but who the heck needs a bigger butt?
As the wicked witch said, "What a world! What a world!".
Oh man, dman....They get butt implants, boobs (obviously) cheek implants which usually turn out skeletal- looking, lip puffing, botox brows, chin and jaw implants to make a square face, fake hair, fake nails, and even fake EYELASHES that are spliced and glued onto your real ones which usually make these young girls look like a Goth Phyllis Diller (apologies to Goth people and Phyllis, God rest her funny soul). What the hell happened to parents yelling at their daughters for wearing earrings that were too big????
Adela, the parents were shocked into silence when they saw what was barely there below those too large earrings.
they got penis too. just wanted to throw that in there.
dman
the same types who get lip implants or botox.
Why on Earth would anyone want an a%% that big. How could she stand upright.
LMAO!!!! What a moroon! Looked more like suction cups on her ass in the beginning.
She can pretty much make any sculpture out of her butt. Great for the holidays
The lesson should be, be happy with what God gave you, this is disgusting.
I'm not even religious and I'm saying AMEN!!!!!!! :D
Why would anyone want a bigger a$$? It's just a fad, and then when flat butts are in fashion what happens? I feel for these people but, come on, fly-by-night plastic surgery and you expect good results? Just another desperate attempt to be something you are not! Sad....and Hollywood and the runway probably have the biggest influence. If my best girlfriend came to me and said she wanted plastic surgery I would slap her really hard (just kidding, but you get the idea)
I'm sorry but flat butts will never be in fashion.
I must be crazy or sumthin, BUTT, I would not be cought dead on video moving that crap around for all to see. I'd be in the PS's office screaming "FIX IT, FIX IT NOW"!!!!!!! Actually, I would never have been so damn stupid in the 1st place.
What brain disorder is causing people to pay for surgery to make them look fatter than they already are?
Doc, I want my nose to be twice as large as normal, then I can become a model.
YES, my sentiments exactly!
The woman from Miami looked worse than her. It was so abnormal looking.
this is THE most enjoyable Vine I have been on in a long, LONG time!!
That is one disgusting looking ass with or without the @!$%#ed up implant.
I'll have to show my kids this one as I've been the "BUTT" of their jokes for some time now. Even the Dr. and xray tech chuckled and all my nurse co-workers who signed my get well card. I'm the one who needs plastic surgery on my ass...I have two butt holes as my smart ass kids say! I was chasing my youngest son and stepped on a deer antler (our golden retriever's chew toy). Anyhow, I wound up with a deep puncture wound to the right gluteus max. I was literally off work 20 days and still very weak when i returned against Drs orders. I've been the butt of everybodys jokes since.
You could also do a good "Forrest Gump Meets President Johnson" impression, too. : ) Hope you are healing well, but do not expect anyone to "kiss it" to make it better, unless you are the boss!
The crazy thing is this obviously chunky girl thought she needed a butt implant.
Me think she was attempting to iron out the stretch creases, or cottage cheese if you will.
JLo aint got nothin on NICKY Minaj.
they really do need to make a big butt barbie.