A totally insane story has been making the rounds lately, and it centers around exploding butt implants. (You read that right.)
According to a report from NewsWatch 33, a 27-year-old woman in Boston is in a coma after her butt implants popped while she was at the gym doing squats. The woman had reportedly gone to an unlicensed clinic to get them and lost a lot of blood when they exploded. The news site reports that she’ll need extensive medical procedures to repair the damage.
These are the images of the implants that NewsWatch 33 posted along with its article:
Sound too crazy to be true? It is. While shady butt implant surgeries happen, it turns out this story is a hoax and NewsWatch33 is an up-and-coming fake news site.
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Real butt implants don’t pop, says New York City plastic surgeon and butt augmentation specialist Matthew Schulman, M.D.
Here’s why: FDA-approved butt implants that are used in the U.S. are made from a soft rubber silicone and can’t leak or break. “FDA-approved buttock implants should by all means never explode,†he says.
Of course, there are complications that can happen after a person gets butt implants. Those include infection, shifting, or all-out rejection from a person’s body. “It is still a foreign body,†points out Schulman.
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Schulman prefers to do a procedure called the Brazilian Butt Lift, in which fat is removed through liposuction and then re-injected into the butt and hips. “Since this is someone’s own tissue and not a foreign or artificial material, there is no risk of rejection,†he says, adding that this method is safer than implants.
Butt implants have been on the rise over the last five years, and Schulman says there was a whopping 98 percent increase in butt implant surgery from 2013 to 2014. “I like to call it the ‘Kardashian Effect,’†he says. “Women with fuller butts and curves are constantly seen on television and in the magazines, and this has become the new normal.â€
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Interested in giving your booty a boost? While this particular story was a hoax, other women have been hospitalized after getting shoddy surgery. So visit a board-certified plastic surgeon that’s trained in this kind of work. They’ll only use materials and implants that are FDA-approved, lowering your risk of complications.