Well, hello, hello, guys. You're listening to Beauty Bites with Dr. K, Secrets of a Plastic Surgeon, and it's time for a podcast.

I'm going to talk to you all about the butt. That's right, BBL's Brazilian butt lifts,

what's trending, what's not trending. Let's talk about the basics. So the BBL phenomenon,

or Brazilian buttlift phenomenon has really revolutionized

a lot of what we see in plastic and aesthetic surgery over the last 10 years. And thank you to the

Kardashians for bringing this amazing procedure to the forefront of what we're doing with body

contouring. And once again, the Kardashians are

also in the public eye as we see that Kim, Chloe, Kylie, and all of them are gradually trimming down

their butts. And I don't think it's imaginary. I think the media has very clearly documented that their bodies look

smaller. Their booties look smaller. And they're getting modifications done to become a little bit more

normal. So BBL is the process of harvesting fat, which is liposuctioned and transferred from

abdomen, thighs, other areas in the body into the buttocks

where the fat transfer will hopefully take root and grow. It's a procedure that requires

anesthesia and does have risk of mortality and morbidity and death rate of 1 and 3,000 patients.

And so it's a significant process to go through.

Many people go through a BBL when they do a mommy makeover, tightening and toning their

abs, trimming their waists, getting some of that excess abdominal fat, back fat, and body fat,

and transferring it to their booties. But remember, 50 to 70% of the injected

fat cells survive after the BBL. The rest maybe doesn't take root. It can take three to six

months for fat cells to stabilize. We have to avoid sitting on the delicate fat and crushing it,

using a special pillow, sleeping on our tummies for long periods of time,

and also just the general risk of the procedure, the risk of pulmonary embolism, fat embolism,

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