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'Does my butt look large successful this?' was erstwhile nan mobility asked by millions of women pinch assemblage image issues. Now, a bigger backside is each nan rage.
A grounds 28,600 women successful nan US had a cosmetic process to heighten their butts successful 2022, figures show, up 54 percent successful 5 years.
Their popularity is thought to person been driven by Instagram, alongside nan emergence of hip-hop civilization and nan 'Kardashian effect'.
Plastic surgeons told DailyMail.com that while immoderate transformations are much evident — specified arsenic for rappers Nicki Minaj and Cardi B, and Kim Kardashian — a much subtle shape of BBL has emerged successful caller years.
KIM KARDASHIAN: Pictured supra successful 2008 (left) and successful caller years. She has now gone for reductions to her alleged BBL
Larsa Pippen pictured earlier and aft her alleged BBL. She has denied reports that she had room previously, saying her hips was down to 'working retired 7 days a week'
IGGY AZALEA, shown near successful 2013, was 1 of nan surgeons' favourite examples of a BBL. She has antecedently admitted to having nan surgery
They speculated that celebrities including Jennifer Lopez and Latina vocalist Becky G person had 'tweakments' - wherever only a mini magnitude of fat implanted into nan hips to somewhat accentuate earthy curves.
The Brazilian Butt Lift (BBL) — besides known arsenic butt augmentation pinch fat grafting — roseate to fame successful nan mid-2010s.
Costing $8,000 to $10,000 per procedure, it is done by extracting fat from 1 area of nan assemblage — specified arsenic nan waist aliases soul thigh — and implanting it into nan buttocks.
The astir communal method involves making 4 incisions into nan hips and utilizing a cannula — mini tube-like aesculapian instrumentality — to 'plant' fat cells into nan area of nan hips patients want to go much plump.
Women who person BBLs will besides person liposuction to trim nan magnitude of fat successful their waist and accentuate their curves.
Some surgeons besides usage different techniques including silicone butt implants to accentuate nan hips - though this method is notoriously dangerous.
Dr Christopher Costa, a integrative surgeon in Las Vegas, said nan champion BBLs are those that 'get nan curves while maintaining their much earthy look'.
He pointed to Iggy Azalea, 33, arsenic having had 1 of nan champion BBLs successful nan business.
MADONNA pictured successful 2016 (left) and 2022 has besides gone for a BBL, according to nan surgeons. The star, 65, has not antecedently confirmed that she had nan procedure
JAMES CHARLES pictured supra successful 2017 (left) and 2023. He has confirmed he underwent a BBL
CARDI B, shown successful 2 photos from Instagram, has besides admitted to having a BBL. She later sewage her butt reduced aft complaining astir an odor
'One of my favorites of each clip is astir apt Iggy Azalea,' he said.
'She conscionable had nan correct instauration for it, arsenic she was carrying astir of her weight successful nan little portion of her assemblage and had a wider hep size.
'I usage her photos to thief my patients visualize what they whitethorn look like, erstwhile they travel successful and opportunity they want a melodramatic posterior.'
Others nan surgeon pointed to included Nicki Minaj and Cardi B, who he said had some apt undergone aggregate BBLs to execute their ample butts.
Iggy Azalea and Cardi B person some admitted to receiving a BBL, while Nicki Minaj antecedently said she had received forbidden butt injections.
Both Nicki Minaj and Cardi B person antecedently expressed regret complete their ample posteriors, pinch Cardi B saying nan cognition led to her butt not smelling right.
But nan surgeon said location has precocious been a displacement distant from nan larger buttocks, pinch much women now coming guardant seeking only flimsy enhancements to their derrières.
Dr Costa said: 'I still person patients coming successful saying they want to get their butt arsenic large arsenic possible, and bringing successful photos of stars for illustration Nicki Minaj and Iggy Azalea.
'But location is besides a group coming for BBLs but moving distant from nan overmuch larger buttocks.
'They person seen women pinch large BBLs stepping connected nan beach, and thought, "oh gosh, I would ne'er want a BBL you know".
'But they are still coming successful for nan operations to get assemblage contouring, aliases curves — to execute that cleanable hip-to-waist ratio.'
Among celebrities, surgeons suggested that Jennifer Lopez whitethorn beryllium among those who has gone for nan much subtle enhancements.
The 54-year-old prima is celebrated for her pert bottom, but physicians opportunity that arsenic she sewage older they would person expected it to shrink — which hasn't been nan case.
NICKI MINAJ pictured supra successful 2001 (left) and 2015. Plastic surgeons said she apt had 2 aliases 3 operations to execute her larger posterior
BECKY G (pictured supra successful 2015, left, and 2016) whitethorn beryllium an illustration of personification who sewage a much earthy BBL, surgeons said, which only somewhat accentuated her figure. Becky G has not said she antecedently had a BBL
La La Anthony pictured successful 2004 (left) and 2021, she is alleged to person received a BBL
Dr Daniel Barrett, a integrative surgeon successful Beverly Hills, said: 'She moreover commented herself connected losing her bully butt that she is known for.
'I deliberation that is why it is imaginable that immoderate benignant of attraction process was carried retired — to thief her get backmost to nan aforesaid look.'
He added: 'Often, pinch patients complete nan 50s who travel successful for a tummy tuck aliases liposuction, I opportunity that we mightiness arsenic good do a fat transportation process to their butts because later successful life they are going to regret not doing that.'
But those who get BBLs into their 60s and beyond consequence their rear looking unnatural, according to Dr Barrett.
As an illustration of this, nan surgeons pointed to Madonna, 65.
Dr Costa said: 'If you look astatine her results, she sewage a batch of disapproval that it didn't look very good, that it looked a spot overseas and retired of proportion.
'[That has] a batch to do pinch her age. Anyone who is successful their 60s, they are not going to person nan thickest tegument and nan champion ligaments to clasp up nan insubstantial that has been transplanted.
'And so, if you inject a batch of fat, past it is difficult to get a really good-looking and earthy result.'
BBLs are besides asked for by immoderate men successful nan cheery and trans community, some nan surgeons said.
YouTube prima James Charles is an illustration of this, and he has now admitted to a BBL to get a larger derrier.
Dr Costa said: 'I person decidedly done a batch of antheral BBLs. This inclination has ever been location though.
'It's beautiful communal that astir of nan men that are doing it are from South America and Colombia, and it leans much towards nan LGBT community.
'They want to make nan butt look much sculpted and much muscular. However, location is simply a group excessively looking to make nan butt look much feminized.'
KYLIE JENNER, pictured successful 2013 (left) and 2019, is besides alleged to person had a BBL. Kylie Jenner has not confirmed whether she received a BBL
Jennifer Lopez, 54, whitethorn besides person had a BBL according to surgeons. They said that this was apt to support her buttocks, because they shrink arsenic a personification ages. Jennifer Lopez has not confirmed whether she had a BBL
Another personage successful nan smaller, much subtle BBL nine whitethorn beryllium Latina vocalist Becky G, according to Dr Costa.
He said: 'I do now person group coming successful saying I don't want these large crazy butts, I conscionable want to effort and get these curves... much for illustration Becky G.
'It's a very earthy looking booty, and I deliberation she whitethorn good beryllium a bully illustration of personification who had a subtle BBL.'
Becky G has besides ne'er confirmed rumors that she had a BBL.
One of nan astir worrying complications from BBLs is fat embolism, which is erstwhile fat cells get into nan humor watercourse and recreation to a captious organ for illustration nan bosom aliases lungs wherever they whitethorn trigger soul bleeding and tin beryllium fatal.
Other complications from nan room see fat necrosis, aliases insubstantial death, and fluid retention — wherever fluids build up successful definite areas and request further room to beryllium removed.
Earlier this year, nan CDC warned complete butt lifts successful nan Dominican Republic — saying a full of 93 Americans had died their since 2008 aft heading to nan state successful pursuit of a cut-price BBL.
