Teased by her family and friends about her flat "pancake" booty, Apryl Michelle Brown had always been insecure about her backside. Once she got enough money, she told herself, she'd buy herself a better one. "I didn't know if I wanted to look like Janet Jackson or J. Lo," the Los Angeles cosmetologist, 46, says in an exclusive interview featured in the November issue of ESSENCE magazine. "I just wanted a new, bigger booty."


Tragically, her quest for curves cost her all her limbs and almost her life.
In 2004, Brown says she paid a "pumper," an unlicensed person, to inject industrial-grade silicone into her buttocks. Brown can't recall how much the woman actually charged — maybe $500, maybe $1,000 — but over time, she says, the area became intensely irritated and painful, and the skin blackened. By early 2006 she says the silicone had hardened, causing severe pain and infection, ultimately requiring her to have lifesaving amputation of her limbs last year.


Now adjusting to her new life with prosthetics, Brown shares her story — and her warning for others tempted to check out "pumping parties" — with writer Amy Elisa Keith in ESSENCE. "I was left here for a purpose," she says. "I have to get the word out so that nobody else makes this choice."

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Watin you dey find?

I wish she went to a professional,she would have been a celebrity now with the best body shape ever! But God almighty used her to teach the world a good lesson. Now compare buttless and 'handless n legless' woman... The Lord God is mighty in His Holy deeds.

I give her half of the blame..and the other half is for those pornstars,strippers,and co that make almost every man nowadays to want a big ass

Now insecurity is gone

SlyIg: I wish she went to a professional,she would have been a celebrity now with the best body shape ever! But God almighty used her to teach the world a good lesson. Now compare buttless and 'handless n handless' woman... The Lord God is mighty in His Holy deeds.

Please point out the holy deeds here.

She messed up her life firstly by allowing peer pressure to dictate her pace,secondly by patronising a quack.
Wishing her all the best in her new life,though.

Hmm! What a great lesson there!

Her loved one's had better keep an eye on her;a woman that can be driven by what people say to rush to a quack in order to feel good may become suicidal.
If she can feel"not cool" about a buttock that's not protruding,imagine how she will feel about been armless and limbless.
#fact#

so who dey change her pads wen she dey see her monthly flower and who dey wipe her ass wen she go toilet na? talk more of changing her cloths. i wonder o

birdman:

Please point out the holy deeds here.

I want to see it too.

Ah, that's sad!!

but God is wonderful. and she still has the zeal to live when millions of people kill themselves (suicide) because of one flimsy reason or the other

mikron: but God is wonderful. and she still has the zeal to live when millions of people kill themselves (suicide) because of one flimsy reason or the other

Must you turn everything into religion? Haba!

SlyIg: I wish she went to a professional,she would have been a celebrity now with the best body shape ever! But God almighty used her to teach the world a good lesson. Now compare buttless and 'handless n handless' woman... The Lord God is mighty in His Holy deeds.

Personally, I don't see what your god has to do with this thread. Religious fanatism...smh.

Moral lesson: leave your butt the way God made it, its like that for a reason. Even if she had gone to a pro, it might still not be successful(somebody with all the money went for tummy tuck and never came back)
What a sad story!

NA WA O

woman no try for herself at all buttless life would have more bearable and worth living with than this.

SlyIg: I wish she went to a professional, she would have been a celebrity now with the best body shape ever! But God almighty used her to teach the world a good lesson. Now compare buttless and 'handless n handless' woman... The Lord God is mighty in His Holy deeds.

Just wish she didn't do it at all M. Jackson was misdiagnosed by a professional though he was fortunate only his nose fell.

She has to be greatful where is Stella Obasanjo?

The thing wey you dey find oo.. You go see am o *in Sunny Neji's voice*

Sometimes this women get on my nerves, @ 46 abei what does she want She has a child $ a biz pls I only pity her as human but I think she brought the pains to herself.
Meanwhl flat butt babes are the most sort after abei guys no be so Wetin man wan carry heady load go do for house??

I just laugh when i see pple taking this vain life very seriously, what is it, why are we not contempted with d way God created created us, why do we lay too much emphasis on physical beauty and fail to do so spiritually. Anyway, she is still lucky at least to still be alive to share her ordeal, what abt Stella Obj, this is a lesson and unfortunately, majority of pple will just read and still determine to do some silly thing. O.k o, as 4 me, i prefer to grow more spiritually than physical beauty.

Them dey chop nyash?

Buttless VS Limbless which is better now?

Good ways of teaching a lesson.

And dis really insinuates dat GOD definitely knws d BEST for all of us

james1: She messed up her life firstly by allowing peer pressure to dictate her pace,secondly by patronising a quack.
Wishing her all the best in her new life,though.

You are right. People just change who they are because of what others will say. Even here on NL, you will see posts like I don't like Omotola, stella damasus because they are fat! They don't like Miss Z because she is too thin! Some will judge people based on what type of arsenal or manchester(sorry o, can't use the normal words on this forum) they possess. So long as people look 'perfect', they are ready to throw away all the other essential qualities of a human being. You then wonder why many marriages don't work. I believe that people should be comfortable with who they are. If by chance you want to change anything about the way you look, make it your personal decision and not what people will say. The conseQuences of your decision(whether good or bad) becomes you full responsibility.

AWWWCCHHHH!

She still dey cross leg like madam.

Na joke I dey joke oo!

Tragically, her quest for curves cost her all her limbs and almost her life.
In 2004, Brown says she paid a "pumper," an unlicensed person, to inject industrial-grade silicone into her buttocks. Brown can't recall how much the woman actually charged — maybe $500, maybe $1,000 — but over time, she says, the area became intensely irritated and painful, and the skin blackened. By early 2006 she says the silicone had hardened, causing severe pain and infection, ultimately requiring her to have lifesaving amputation of her limbs last year.

Foolish woman.

Women, ladies. If you are unhappy because you have a small booty, there is a very simple, safe, easy way to fix it.

a) Squat rack and
b) dead lifts!

Go visit a gym and build a sexy behind that way rather than dodgy injections/surgery.

ItsModella: Advice: Save more money and go to a professional. Better still, don't let your vanity control you.

best words ever. I love it