Women are dying for bigger butts: 33 patients have died on US surgical tables in just 5 years, top plastic surgeons reveal - as they call to change how Brazilian butt lifts are performed

One in every 3,000 people who have Brazilian butt lifts die after the surgery

That is twice as many as any other cosmetic procedure In the last eight years, at least 10 women died from butt lifts in Florida 

Experts across the world are warning patients that an fat injection made too deep could prove deadly

Women from across the globe are dying from complications of Brazilian butt lift operations, prompting an international task force of plastic surgeons to warn against the procedure.
Driven to fame (or infamy) by the likes ofKim Kardashian and Kylie Jenner, plastic surgeons performed 18,487 such 'butt lifts' in 2015. 

But the procedures comes with serious risks. 

For 30-year-old Lattia Baumeister, a butt lift was deadly. She died on the operating table in Florida, leaving her six children in Illinois motherless. 

She was one of least 33 people have died in the last five years in the US because fat transferred to their butts caused deadly embolisms, and a special task force is now warning surgeons that the way they learned to do the operation may be deadly.

A normal butt lift reduces the size of the butt. It is commonly used for formerly overweight people who lost weight.

However, a BBL increases the size of the butt, by adding grafted or injected fat.

It was created by Ivo Pitanguy, a pioneering Brazilian plastic surgeon, who died in August 2016 aged 90 after carrying the Olympic flame in Rio. 

HOW IT WORKS:

Liposuction to remove fat from abdomen/hips/thighsFat is 'processed'Fat is injected into buttocks

BBL STYLES:

Upside-down heart, or 'A-shape': Much smaller waist and larger buttocks towards the bottom

Round: emphasis on increasing the size of the butt, not pulling in the waist or thighs  

HOW TO PREPARE:

Don't smoke (increases infection risk and blood clot risk)Don't gain weight (when you lose it again, your butt will change)

RISK OF DEATH:

Higher than most operations - 20 in 100,000 compared with 1 in 100,000.

There are two major risk factors that can make a BBL fatal:

Blood clots travel to lungsAccidental injection of fat to blood vessel

RECOVERY:

Don't work for 10 days

Don't sit for 6 weeks

Sleep on stomach

Final shape will take months or a year to form