{"id":1824,"date":"2018-09-04T00:28:27","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T00:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/is-brazilian-butt-lift-surgery-a-risk-worth-taking\/"},"modified":"2018-09-04T00:28:27","modified_gmt":"2018-09-04T00:28:27","slug":"is-brazilian-butt-lift-surgery-a-risk-worth-taking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/is-brazilian-butt-lift-surgery-a-risk-worth-taking\/","title":{"rendered":"Is ‘Brazilian butt lift’ surgery a risk worth taking?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A mother of three has died after reportedly travelling to Turkey for a type of cosmetic surgery known as the “Brazilian butt lift” (BBL). Why is this procedure increasingly popular and is it more dangerous to have the operation abroad?<\/p>\n

Leah Cambridge, from Leeds, had three heart attacks while under anaesthetic at a clinic in the city of Izmir, her partner Scott Franks told The Sun<\/a>. <\/p>\n

She is understood to have had a BBL procedure, where fat from the stomach is injected into the buttocks.<\/p>\n

The 29-year-old beautician opted for surgery abroad – which is often cheaper than in the UK – after growing paranoid about excess stomach fat after having children, Mr Franks said.<\/p>\n

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Her neighbours have described her as “absolutely stunning”, adding that they believed she had gone to have the treatment last month against her partner’s wishes.<\/p>\n

And Ms Cambridge is not the first British woman whose quest for the perfect behind ended in tragedy abroad.<\/p>\n

Joy Williams underwent buttock augmentation surgery in Bangkok<\/a>, Thailand, in October 2014. Her wounds became infected, and the 24-year-old, from London, died under anaesthetic.<\/p>\n

Three years previously, 20-year-old Claudia Aderotimi, from Hackney, east London, died as a result of a botched “buttock enhancement” procedure at a US hotel<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The BBL procedure is not considered to be any more dangerous than many other types of cosmetic surgery, according to consultant plastic surgeon Bryan Mayou.<\/p>\n

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“The danger is the surgery being performed by unqualified surgeons outside a clinical setting without appropriate aftercare,” says Mr Mayou, a member of the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons.<\/p>\n

“If fat is injected deep into muscle tissue and lower down on the buttocks, there is a risk of incorrectly injecting fat into large veins.<\/p>\n

“The fat, now an embolus, can pass around the bloodstream, into the lungs and cause death.”<\/p>\n

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Mr Franks, 31, told The Sun: “Leah was under anaesthetic and complications happened due to fat getting deposited in her bloodstream and her oxygen levels fell.<\/p>\n

“She was brought back to stable but had three heart attacks and there was nothing they could do.”<\/p>\n

Plastic surgeons from international societies have set up a taskforce to monitor and report on the BBL procedure, says Mr Mayou.<\/p>\n

The death rate following the procedure was found to be 1 in 3,000<\/a> and all the fatal cases investigated featured fat emboli being found in the buttock muscle, he says.<\/p>\n

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The surgeon says he has noticed a rise in the number of bottom-boosting operations at his Cadogan Clinic in Chelsea, west London, in the past four years.<\/p>\n

“It’s a current fad,” he explains. “Years ago everyone wanted to be smaller and they would be saying ‘can we have liposuction to make [my bottom] smaller?'”<\/p>\n

And that is the technique that would be used if the “bubble butt” goes out of fashion and BBL patients want the procedure reversed, he says.<\/p>\n

So why the obsession with having a bigger behind? For Mr Mayou, it’s down to popular culture celebrating curvier physiques.<\/p>\n

“We live in an ethnically diverse world and there is an appreciation of different body shapes from our own, and then these techniques become available that make these shapes achievable.”<\/p>\n

Celebrities like Kim Kardashian, Kylie Jenner and Cardi B have huge followings on social media where they regularly post photographs flaunting their rounded posteriors. <\/p>\n

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Jenner posted a video<\/a> on her blog in which she attributed her curves to weight gain: “[I haven’t had] ass implants. You know, I used to be 120 [lbs]. I was really skinny. Now I’m pushing like 136. But it’s alright, I like the chunkiness.”<\/p>\n

However, Cardi B has revealed that before she broke on to the music scene she had filler injected into her buttocks in a basement in New York – and the silicone leaked for five days afterwards.<\/p>\n

In an interview with GQ,<\/a> she said she paid $800 (\u00a3564) for the procedure after seeing her stripper colleagues with bigger bottoms earning more than her.<\/p>\n

Chloe Simms, a star of reality soap The Only Way Is Essex, has been open about the bum-boosting cosmetic surgery she’s had, having complained on the show that she had “the flattest bum in Essex”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This Instagram post from 2013 shows her slim silhouette. <\/p>\n

While she appears much more curvaceous in this swimwear shot from July 2018.<\/p>\n

And as Mr Mayou points out, BBL surgery can be a particularly attractive idea for some women as it’s seen as being able to solve two body hang-ups in one go.<\/p>\n

“For a lot of people you are really getting two benefits from one operation – removing fat from somewhere they don’t want it and putting it somewhere they do,” he says.<\/p>\n

In terms of cost, cosmetic surgery is cheaper in countries like Turkey than in the UK, Mr Mayou says. <\/p>\n

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