Oh
Lawd…why can’t we be happy with what our Mama’s gave us? How many women out
there do you think have considered getting injections so they could be dubbed
‘Ms. Fat Booty’ too?? According to Essence: Teased by her family and friends
about her flat “pancake” booty, Apryl Michelle Brown had always been insecure
about her backside. Once she got enough money, she told herself, she’d buy
herself a better one.
“I didn’t know if I wanted to look like Janet Jackson or
J. Lo,” the Los Angeles cosmetologist, 46, says in an exclusive interview
featured in the November issue of ESSENCE magazine. “I just wanted a new,
bigger booty.” Tragically, her quest for curves cost her all her limbs and
almost her life. In 2004, Brown says she paid a “pumper,” an unlicensed person,
to inject industrial-grade silicone into her buttocks.
Brown can’t recall how much the woman actually charged — maybe $500, maybe
$1,000 — but over time, she says, the area became intensely irritated and
painful, and the skin blackened. By early 2006 she says the silicone had
hardened, causing severe pain and infection, ultimately requiring her to have
lifesaving amputation of her limbs last year. Now adjusting to her new life
with prosthetics, Brown shares her story — and her warning for others tempted
to check out “pumping parties” — with writer Amy Elisa Keith in ESSENCE. “I was
left here for a purpose,” she says. “I have to get the word out so that nobody
else makes this choice.” We hope Apryl’s story is a warning that’s taken
seriously. Has society and the media made women that insecure? Images via
Essence/Kawai Matthews
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