Now that I have given you some information about where the idea of women of color wanting to get a big butt comes from and some music that promotes and lusts the idea of a large buttocks, I would like to share a story with you about a woman who actually went and got silicone injections, but ended up not gaining the large buttocks she desired.
Meet Apryl Michelle Brown
Brown had spent five years in unbearable pain when an unlicensed surgeon injected her buttocks with bathroom sealant, telling her it was silicone, so that she could enhance the size of her buttocks.
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Brown was teased by her friends and family for having a "pancake" booty. Most women of color are usually
born with a natural buttocks behind them, so Brown developed insecurities about lacking a buttocks. She decided to get silicone injections on the Black Market. The Black Market is a very common solution for most women who choose to get injections, but also a dangerous route. Receiving injections on the Black Market means going to an unlicensed surgeon, and paying half the price to receive silicone injections. This usually happens in the home of the unlicensed surgeon, or in a hotel room.
Apryl shares that at first she thought receiving injections was a blessing. She said I hadn't done any other research so I didn't know all of the horror stories ( that came with receiving this surgery). She ( the surgeon) told me that I'd need four sets of injections, and when she started to do them it was very painful, I could feel it going into my nerves and muscles.
After the pain eventually went away, Apryl decided to return for a 2nd round of injections. As soon as she left the house the she said she had an epiphany.
She thought to herself "what am I doing" and says that it was a sign from God himself.
After that, things took a turn for the worst.
The area around the injections began to discolor, then became itchy, and then become incredibly painful.
Apyrl described the pain as "having a toothache, labor pain and a migraine in one".
She visited the doctor to receive medical advice and the doctors examined her and said they had no idea what to do. Most of them gave her the advice that she may have to live with the pain, because they felt that the chemical could not be removed.
Eventually, the doctors performed surgery and removed the silicone along with her butt cheeks. Her buttocks had become infected and they gave her 24 hours to live.
The doctors induced Apryl into a coma and performed 27 operations. This included a buttock amputation and a quadruple lower arm and leg amputation.
" I didn't know this until I came around" says Apryl. " When I woke up I didn't have a butt and I wasn't in pain anymore".
After realizing what had happened to her, and now learning how to adjust to a new lifestyle without limbs Apryl has decided to share her story with the world to warn others about the dangers of this type of surgery.
She said " I don't think God gives you the opportunity to live again with out using it to stop others. I want to teach people that she must not ever look for something outside ourselves to validate ourselves. We're already born whole and perfect and complete, and nothing we do on the outside will make us change inside".
I love how Apryl was able to come back strong from such a hard experience, and use it to share with others and bring awareness towards this growing popularity of women of color receiving this type of surgery. Women of color must understand and realize that no one is perfect and that we should appreciate what God has given us. We shouldn't allow the stereotypes that require an African American woman to be truly authentic if she has a large buttocks shape us, and make us desire that image. We need to realize that there is so much more to us then just having a large buttocks, and we need to show society how beautiful, smart and successful we really are, or have the potential to be.
We need to uplift one another and not tease and bring down one another. You never know what your mean words could push someone to do, and in this case it pushed Apryl to seek out injections to fit in and not be teased anymore by her own family.
To read more about Apyrl and her story, you can visit her website http://aprylmichellebrown.com/
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