Oh dear…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??
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.”
Has society and the media made women that insecure? I hope Apryl’s story is a warning that’s taken seriously. Has society and the media made women that insecure?
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