Six New Jersey women checked themselves into the hospital last week for skin infections and abscesses on their bottoms after receiving butt injections administered by unlicensed providers.
The women underwent surgery and were given antibiotics. No arrests have been made.
Different from medical-grade silicone, the substance used in the botched procedures was believed to be a diluted version of nonmedical-grade silicone, similar to the material contractors use to caulk bathtubs.
It’s not the first time a group of women ended up in the hospital with a mysterious substance injected into their behinds.
“Usually it’s industrial silicone, it’s the stuff that you buy at Home Depot,” said Dr. Renato Saltz, president of the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery.
“What a tragedy,” said Gregory Borah, president of the New Jersey Society of Plastic Surgeons.
Using over-the-counter silicone can cause abscesses that he said resemble “a big zit.”
Instances of botched procedures, says Borah, underscore the need for patients who seek augmentation to have it administered by a licensed professional in a sterile setting.
At the Academy Awards after party this past Sunday, two awards for best cleavage definitely should have been given to Christina Hendricks and Katy Perry.
Ladies, we applaud you.
Some other ladies not shy about showing off their ample assets on the red carpet included Mariah Carey, Hilary Swank, Vanessa Hudgens, Stacey Dash, and Amber Rose.
Who was your favorite breast dressed celebrity of the evening?
Daniel Angerer, owner of the New York City restaurant Klee Brasserie is making headlines with the newest addition to his menu: “Mommy’s Milk” cheese, made from his wife’s excess breast milk.
The chef began experimenting with human milk in the kitchen eight weeks ago after his wife gave birth and she began freezing her excess milk. The idea has delighted some, and disgusted others, but is not the first attempt to promote human milk for general consumption.
A while back a Swiss restaurant named Storchen introduced a menu featuring human breast-milk edibles, which inspired PETA to ask ice-cream giant Ben & Jerry’s to switch from unhealthy bovine juice from tormented calves (aka cow milk) to healthier, humane human breast milk.
Though Ben & Jerry’s wasn’t so keen on the idea, Daniel Angerer’s supporters are now urging him to consider making breast milk ice cream as well. The chef invites anyone who’s interested to try his titillating creation, and even offers a recipe for the cheese on his blog should you ever actually want to try it at home.
Interesting idea for the purposes of sustainable eating, but I think I’ll have to take a pass on this one.
For the second time in about a week, Colorado has gotten upset over an ad featuring boobs. The first time was over an ad that revealed puppet boobs belonging to Lucy of Avenue Q. This week, the boob outrage was over a banner advertising the Perky Cups coffee shop, where the waitresses serve coffee and burritos, while wearing bikinis.
The city council of Aurora, CO deemed the ad legal after people complained, but then the coffee shop’s landlord took it down anyway on Wednesday for the sake of being a good neighbor. The decline of business due to the removal of the banner has yet to be determined.
No, this is not about the sister of the 3-boobed prostitute from Total Recall. 47-year-old Mary Alaimo is suing her plastic surgeon for $5 million over a botched breast augmentation that went so poorly that she “came out of that operation with essentially four breasts.”
According to Alaimo’s suit filing, her breasts now “appear flattened on the bottom with severe swells the size of a softball on top,” and that she suffers from “pain… disability, loss of self-esteem, humiliation and embarrassment.”
Even after undergoing two corrective procedures -the first with the original doctor- Alaimo purportedly suffered more scarring and “implants that slid downward, making her breasts appear even further deformed.”
In terms of a defense, the doctor’s lawyer said that Alaimo should have been more aware of the risks of plastic surgery before going under the knife.”Plastic surgery is trivialized,” He said. “But the reality is that plastic surgery is just that—surgery. There are no guarantees.”
Yes, there will always be risks associated with surgery. But four boobs even after two corrective surgeries? I don’t think he’s going to win this one.
For the 5,200 people that gathered yesterday to be photographed in front of the Sydney Opera House, it must have been a very cold day in Australia.
For the sake of art and diversity, photographer/nude-ographer Spencer Tunick gathered an army of naked bodies to deliver the strong message to the world that Australians embrace a free and equal society.
When Lydia Carranza fell victim to an office gunman last summer, salvation may have come from her size-D breast implant.
Beverly Hills plastic surgeon Dr. Ashkan Ghavami believes that without the implant to obstruct the blow from the bullet, Carranza would have died.
Carranza was working at a Simi Valley dental office July 1st when the disgruntled husband of one of her co-workers stormed in with a semiautomatic assault rifle, killing his wife and shooting Carranza in the chest.
“She’s just one lucky woman,” Dr. Ghavami told the LA Times. “I saw the CT scan. The bullet fragments were millimeters from her heart and her vital organs. Had she not had the implant, she might not be alive today.”
Dr. Ghavami will be performing Carranza’s breast reconstruction surgery at a reduced cost, but is hoping that implant companies will donate supplies.
Kris Carraway, spokeswoman for the hospital at which Carranza was treated, has said that Carranza’s emergency physician “was not aware of the breast implant having any impact of whether or not it saved her life.”
But Scott Reitz, an LAPD firearms instructor told The Times that it was entirely possibly that the implant interrupted the velocity of the bullet.
“I don’t want to say a boob job is the equivalent of a bulletproof vest,” Reitz said. “So don’t go getting breast enhancements as a means to deflect a possible incoming bullet.”
Jaime Paredes, the alleged gunman, is awaiting trial without bail on charges for murder and premeditated attempted murder.
Former Playboy magazine model Kendra Wilkinson wants a breast reduction, but is worried ex-boyfriend Hugh Hefner would be “mad.”
Kendra got breast implants in her teens to help her career as a topless model, but since having her first child, Hank, her boobs have grown even larger.
Even though ‘Hef’ will be disappointed, Kendra vows to go under the knife if her boobs don’t deflate to their regular size after the baby weight is gone.
“If my boobs don’t shrink, I would consider a breast reduction. Hef would be kind of mad, but it’s time for a change,” she told the US edition of OK! magazine.
Kendra has lost some weight in the eight weeks since she gave birth, and is planning on losing more. But even if her boobs do get back to their normal state, with much sadness, Kendra will never be gracing the pages of Playboy again.
Apple has been making some major changes to its App Store policies regarding sexual content that could render many developers’ applications worthless.
Jon Atherton, the creator of Wobble iBoobs, told TechCrunch that he received an email from Apple informing him that his application was being removed from the App Store due to a new policy change. After receiving complaints from customers, Apple has decided “to remove any overtly sexual content from the App Store.”
Though applications such as “Sexy Girls Uncovered,” and “Sex Strip” have yet to be deemed “overtly” sexual, poor Wobble iBoobs has been kicked to the curb.
For all of the deplorable details, read the entire TechCrunch article here.
Recent research into Britain’s breasts has shown that the nation’s largest boobs are to be found in Liverpool.
A recent survey of 4,000 men and women has found that an estimated 1 in 10 women in the Merseyside city have an E-cup or larger, with 46 percent of Liverpool ladies having at least a D-cup.
The national average is 36D – two cup sizes up from the 1985 B-cup average.
The survey found that men in Newcastle are the most breast-fixated, a majority claiming they can tell real boobs from implants.
It was also found that most Brit women are more likely to be staring at boobs than men, with a whopping 90 percent admitting to checking out rival assets seven times a day.
Nationally, 63 percent said they wanted bigger breasts, and men and women both agree that a C-cup is the ideal size.
“This research is a real insight into out attitude to breasts,” said Pat Dunion of Transform, the cosmetic surgery group who conducted the survey.
“Our fascination with breasts – whether male of female – seems to be getting bigger each year.”
