*Lyfe Jennings dropped a music video late last year that deals with the harsh realities and risks of plastic surgery and body enhancement produces.
His music video for the new single “Till You Gone” touches on a myriad of controversial social issues such as racism, gun violence, and body shaming. The video shows images of women feeling pressured to get Brazilian butt lifts. As reported by Moguldom, one such scene is of a young woman who tells her mother that her boyfriend wants her to get a BBL.
“If you weren’t enough for him before the BBL, you won’t be enough for him after,” her mother replies. The young woman gets the BBL anyway. Her boyfriend disapproves of the results and after he dumps her, she commits suicide.
Watch Lyfe’s new music video via the YouTube player above.
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As reported previously on EUR, patients seeking to enhance their derriere turn to Brazilian butt lift surgery which is a procedure that harvests excess fat from other areas of the body through liposuction and transfers it to the buttocks.
“Fat cells are removed via liposuction from the abdomen, hips, thighs, or lower back,” George Bitar, MD, a board-certified plastic surgeon in Washington, DC, tells SELF. “The extracted fat is then purified and strategically injected into specific parts of the derriere to help patients achieve their desired size and shape.”
Alex Earle, MD, a board-certified plastic surgeon in Miami and president of the World Association of Gluteal Surgeons, said “Contouring the body in this way makes a BBL a very impactful procedure that can transform someone’s shape in ways that simply aren’t possible with butt exercises alone.”
BBLs have become a billion-dollar industry, but they have also been labeled the most dangerous cosmetic procedure due to the wave of recent reports of patient deaths from undergoing BBL. According to 21ninety.com, studies show that major risks of the surgery could manifest years later. Some long-term risks include:
- severe infection
- pain
- lumps under the skin in the areas suctioned or injected
- loss of skin in the treated areas due to deep infection
- fat embolism in the heart or lungs, which can be fatal
Other long-term risks include contour irregularities and if implants are used, they could become dislodged.
Many risks associated with BBLs show up immediately, while others take many years to manifest. In 2018, the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) issued a statement warning about the risks following a slew of deaths linked to BBL surgeries.
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