The $5,000 butt

Today, Explained

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4.3 • 10.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2021

⏱️ 31 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. Today’s show was produced by Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and hosted by Haleema Shah. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained. Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:46.7	It's today explained I'm Halima Shah and
0:50.0	oh my god Becky look at her bed.
0:53.7	No one says that anymore.
0:55.4	It's more like
1:04.8	big round butts have always existed.
1:07.7	And black and Latinx artists have long celebrated them in music and pop culture.
1:12.5	Yeah, he loved his fettest.
1:18.6	But it wasn't until recently that white America embraced the peach emoji behind.
1:31.2	And it wasn't until really recently that a lot of people were willing to get
1:34.9	surgery to make sure they had it.
1:36.9	A Brazilian butt lift.
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