The $5,000 butt

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🗓️ 18 October 2021

⏱️ 16 minutes

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The Brazilian butt lift isn’t just a cosmetic surgery; it’s a lifestyle. Vox’s Rebecca Jennings explains how influencers gave a decades-old procedure new life. Listen to the rest of the episode here: https://megaphone.link/VMP8712712453 This episode of Today, Explained was produced by Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and hosted by Haleema Shah. Additional production by: Recode Daily host: Adam Clark Estes (@adamclarkestes) Producer: Alan Rodriguez Espinoza (@ardzes) Engineer: Melissa Pons Support Recode Daily by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.0	It's Rico Daley. I'm Adam Clark Estes.
0:37.0	And today we want to tell you about the meteoric rise on social media of a trend that's all about.
0:43.0	Oh my god Becky, look at her butt.
0:47.0	Ali Masha, a reporter with today explained, is going to take it from here.
0:51.0	Big round butts have always existed.
1:01.0	And black and Latinx artists have long celebrated them in music and pop culture.
1:07.0	Yeah, he loved his fat ass.
1:11.0	But it wasn't until recently that white America embraced the Pete emoji behind.
1:18.0	And it wasn't until really recently that a lot of people were willing to get surgery to make sure they had it.
1:32.0	A Brazilian butt lift.
1:34.0	Check it out.
1:35.0	It's the fastest growing cosmetic surgery in the world.
1:38.0	And you can thank the internet for that.
1:44.0	My name is Helly Larson.
1:46.0	I'm a podcaster, a tick tocker.
1:49.0	I wouldn't necessarily consider myself an influencer myself.
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