Buttock augmentation injections are filled with volumizing substances, such as silicone. However, the lower fees come at a much higher cost. The fillers used in the shots can travel to other parts of the body, with potentially fatal side effects. Unfortunately, disreputable providers may still offer these injections to make a profit, albeit illegally. There have been news reports of these illegal injections causing death. Read on to learn more about dangerous buttock augmentation injections and what you can do instead.
Everything You Need to Know About Butt Injections (And Every Other Booty-Booster)
Deaths from Illegal Butt Injections Increasingly Ruled Homicide
A year-old woman named Kelly Mayhew died on Saturday in a basement in Queens because of complications from a black market butt injection performed by an unlicensed quack, who is still on the lam. As peculiar as this might have sounded a decade ago, it's becoming all too familiar in our era of unrealistic ass. While there are no reliable stats on exactly how many American women have died from black market booty enhancements, with cases like Mayhew's popping up in the news constantly it's safe to assume the problem is on the uptick. I've seen the unfortunate growth of this black market firsthand. In , I traveled down to Miami, Florida, the epicenter of ass enhancements legal and otherwise , to learn about the underground cosmetic surgery rings that are proliferating throughout the US. I was brought there by the notorious case of Oneal Ron Morris.
Woman Accused in Fatal Silicone Butt Injection Case Returns to US to Stand Trial
When Leslie Ayala traveled to New York from Philadelphia on June 17 for another round of black-market injections to enhance her buttocks, she expected to leave with more curves, not go into cardiac arrest. In June of , two Dallas women pled guilty to murder in relation to the death of Wykesha Reid , who went into cardiac arrest following an unlicensed procedure. In , a Queens, N. And yet, neither the risks attendant to black market procedures nor the risk of conviction for performing them seems to have stemmed interest in illegal enhancements.
How much would you suffer for a bigger booty? Hopefully not as much as Cardi B. Cardi was 21 at the time and working as a stripper, and she said she was hoping the injections would help her make more money on the job. Hence, the injectable fillers. I felt like I was gonna pass out.