Big Booty injections leaves woman limbless with no big booty afterall.

Limbless - Apryl Michelle Brown

PHOTO: QUEST FOR CURVES - Illegal Booty Injections Leave Woman Limbless… This picture you see before you is Apryl Michelle Brown, who lost all four of her limbs from infections caused by unlicensed butt injections she received from a “pumper.”  ”Pumpers” — who sometimes claim to be doctors — take advantage of often times low-income women who are looking for cheaper plastic surgery by pumping their posteriors with materials which they claim are similar to what you’d get in a plastic surgeon’s office for a fraction of the price. In reality, “pumpers” use Krazy Glue, sealant and cement and have sent numerous customers to the hospitals.  How many women out there are still thinking of  getting injections so they could be dubbed ‘Ms. big  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”.    Has society and the media made some women that insecure? Hope Brown’s story is a warning that’s taken seriously.