Botched! episode shows woman who injected Sheep fat into her lips seek surgery

July 20, 2016

Ashley had sheep’s fat injection in a bid to plump up her pout 12 years ago
But she says her lips ‘grow every year’ and she’s now unhappy with them
She books in to see surgeons on plastic surgery show Botched!
Dr. Nassif and Dr. Dubrow advise she probably had silicone not sheep fat
Operation removes the silicone from her lips and former smile is restored

Erica Tempesta

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Jo Tweedy For Mailonline

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04:35 EST, 20 July 2016

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06:26 EST, 20 July 2016

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A woman who thought she’d had sheep fat injected into her lips reveals how her enhanced pout began to get bigger every year despite having the procedure done more than 12 years ago.

US mother Ashley says she was desperate to get her lips ‘done’ and was advised that injections of sheep fat were the way to do it best.

However, while her pumped-up lips looked good at first, she says they soon began to look strange and even began to grow larger every year.

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Fright pout: Ashley said that she had hoped injections of what she thought was sheep fat would help her achieve the perfect pout but instead she was left with over-inflated lips

The mother asked plastic surgeons on Botched! to fix her smile…and was delighted with the results

In a bid to restore her former smile, she took part in plastic surgery programme Botched!

The show’s doctors, Dr. Nassif and Dr. Dubrow discuss her story before meeting her, with Dr Nassif asking his co-surgeon how many people come into his office with ‘something foreign put into their lips’.

Dr. Dubrow assumes that he is talking about cement or concrete, but Dr. Nassif reveals that their next patient says she’s had sheep’s fat fillers.

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‘Sheep’s cells?’ Dr. Dubrow asks in disbelief. ‘I don’t believe that.’ However, Dr. Nassif points out that she specifically said ‘sheep’s fat’ – not cells.

The doctors go on to look at photos of Ashley on their iPad, and they agree that her lips are really ‘big’.

‘What country was this done in? In this country? No way,’ Dr. Dubrow says after Dr. Nassif says she’s had her lip injected in the US.

Before they examine Ashley, Dr. Nassif (left) can be seen showing Dr. Dubrow (right) Ashley’s picture, and Dr. Dubrow can’t believe that she had her lips done in the US

Expert opinion: While looking at her photo on their iPad, both the doctors agree that her lips are very ‘big’, but insist that there is no way that they were injected sheep’s fat

Pumped up: The doctors tell Ashley that she doesn’t have sheep fat in her lips; saying that if she did, she would have suffered a strong reaction to it

Show me your bottom lip: Dr. Nassif asks Ashley to stick out her pout as the pair examine her

Surgery involves cutting into Ashley’s lips and scraping out the hardened silicone

A precision slit is made to release the lump of silicone that is in Ashley’s lips

When Ashley comes in to join them, she explains that her sister found a woman that would make house-calls, and she injected her lips with ‘sheep’s fat’.

However, Dr. Dubrow isn’t buying that and he immediately asks what color the syringe was.

After Ashley confirms that the syringe was filled with a clear — not yellow — substance that was a liquid and not a solid, Dr. Dubrow asks if she thought her lips looked ‘good for a while’ after they ‘healed a little bit’.

Ashley says she liked her lips initially, but she notes that they weren’t as large as they are now.

‘It’s been 12 years and they get bigger every year,’ she explains.

Ideally, Ashley agrees with the doctors that she would like her lips to be half the size they are now.

‘The typical patient will come in at most will get 1cc maybe one and a half in their upper and lowers. You probably have 7 or 8ccs in each lip,’ Dr. Dubrow estimates.

Ashley is shocked to find out that non-medical grade non-sterile silicone was the likely substance injected into her pout

The doctors tell Ashley: ‘A typical patient will come in at most will get 1cc maybe one and a half in their upper and lowers. You probably have 7 or 8ccs in each lip’

Overjoyed: Ashley says that she doesn’t want her children to be embarrassed about their mother’s lips

‘But you don’t have big lips because you had necessarily too much put in, your body has had an immunologic reaction to the foreign material that was put in,’ he continues. ‘By the way. if you had sheep fat put in, you would immediately had acute rejection response.’

Dr. Nassif jumps in to agree, explaining that if she had gotten sheep’s fat injected into her lips, an infection would have developed, she would have gotten sick, and she would almost immediately have to go to the emergency room.

‘So what is it that has stayed this long?’ Ashley asks of her engorged lips.

Dr. Nassif goes on to say that she was most likely given injections of ‘non-medical grade non-sterile silicone’.

After undergoing the operation, Ashley’s lips are freed of a long slither of hardened silicone which has been setting in her smile for over a decade.

Botched! airs on Tuesdays at 9pm on E!