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the Brazilian butt lift behind the world's most dangerous cosmetic surgery was published in February 2021.

I first came across the BBL as it's known in the trade back in 2020, 2021, and I guess it was pandemic time and everyone was

spending a lot of time online and I just became really aware of this fat I guess for a body shape

and I was intrigued by it because there were

sort of obvious sources for that Kim Kardashian being the main one but it was

sort of gaining attraction you know way beyond that it was becoming something that

people were kind of posting about, women were posting that quite widely, in terms of this sort of idealized body shape of the really pronounced bottom basically.

And simultaneously there were some stories and really tragic stories of women who were going to get this operation where your fat is taken from one part of your body injected into your bottom which is a really dangerous operation if it's done in an invasive way and they were going to Turkey many of them to get this done and so I sort of wanted to follow one of those stories particularly there was a story of the young woman Melissa Carr who did where this had happened her story has become a kind of very influential one really

affecting the attitudes towards the whole surgery now and policy among

plastic surgeons but what they will or won't do. But I think as soon as I find a

subject area like this what really captures my interest is trying to understand in the sort of most intimate way possible the interior motivations of a subject and so why a young woman and often you know these are really young women who are doing this why they want it you know what the sort of motivation is

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