No, seriously, why?
A mother-of-five has become the first person to die from a Brazilian Bum Lift procedure in the UK.
Alice Webb, 34, passed away on Monday just hours after having the surgery, which is believed to have been performed in the West Country.
Gloucestershire Police are understood to be investigating the death and the surgeon – whose identity MailOnline knows – has been arrested.
A stupid, stupid waste of life. But why do women think their bums need to be bigger? I can recall them complaining about bums being too big. And given the risks involved in this particular procedure, why again. Why? I don’t get it. It isn’t because men want to see women looking like the back end of a bus. See also the obscene trout pout.
There are plenty of fantastic arses at the gym, they come in lots of different sizes but are all good. Of course the gym is the place to go if you want to improve the shape of your behind, a much better bet than having surgery.
But that’s hard work, getting someone else to carve it into shape isn’t.
I do get this in some circumstances – women are brainwashed to obsess over their figures from a very young age which can lead to an unhealthy and sometimes debilitating self awareness and total loss of confidence. Cosmetic procedures are rarely a cure for this, as once you fix one ‘problem’ the next in line simply takes over.
I can see a BBL being especially attractive to a cohort of mums who have gained considerable weight during the early mum years, who then lose it rapidly after a bit of a middle-age health kick. This often means a saggy bum but still retaining unwanted fat in the lower abdomen which is very hard to shift, so a BBL seems like an ideal opportunity to move the fat from where it’s not wanted to where it is.
As with any surgical procedure there are risks and benefits which need to be weighed on a case by case basis. For a bird in her 20’s that just wants to look like Beyonce I’d say hell no. For a mum in her 40’s who is so self conscious that she never leaves the house – maybe – with appropriate psychological support.
Amazing that the police have acted. There must be hundreds of people dying from NHS ‘care’ every day and no-one turns a hair.
Yeah, but NHS (PUBH) obviously.
All medical interventions (and not having them) carry a risk.
Whether that risk is worth the pay off is up to the individual.
She decided that having some butt lift to look “better” was worth the risk of going into the forever box.
Ho hum. Her gamble didn’t pay off.
Assuming the risks were explained, and the quacks didn’t do anything stoopid, it’s a nothing story. Other than maybe highlighting to other womens that actually these procedures may give them a bum, but may also just kill them.
PSA maybe?
I wonder what the statistical risk actually is here. The reporting would suggest it is higher than average, but reports can distort reality. That said, injecting fat where it isn’t supposed to be then wondering why it goes walkabout seems a bit naïve to me.
Prior to 2000 the fashion was for women to have small bums. I don’t understand why the fashion has changed – see Kim Catrall in Police Academy – personally I think that is more attractive
Maybe the fashion has changed because the population has changed. Don’t some ‘cultures’ regard a large behind as a good thing?
Fair point. However, the back end looking like a battleships is decidedly ugly, frankly.
I wonder if that is the reason – it could also be American influence.
Latin Americans (I am married to one) regard the 90’s UK idea that could be obessed that her bottom is too big as a weird as I regard their idea of beauty.
I don’t really understand why tastes in women would be subject to the whims of fashion. Little pert bottoms can be nice but I’ve always preferred the bigger ones although the shape is important too, if it looks like a bag of mud that isn’t good. But then I don’t really like big breasts, I prefer small pointy ones.
When it comes to exercise being hard work, it starts off hard and demoralising because beginners are usually unfit. Fit people tend not to find it hard work at all and find it enjoyable and satisfying. Getting over that initial hill is the hard part.
Exercise wouldn’t not give the desired shape – if anything it would make the bum smaller and less desirable.
If you want to understand the mindset – and I don’t think you should – see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Pursuit_(2015_film)