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VICE travels to Miami to investigate the underground world of
black market bum enhancements. Watch the film on VICE.com here
VICE presents Buttloads of Pain, an unflinching look at why illegal bum enhancements may be America’s newest epidemic.
In the quest for beauty, what price for the perfect posterior? A cheap cosmetic fix may cost you your looks, your limbs and maybe even your life.
VICE travelled to Miami, America’s clandestine buttock surgery hotspot, to speak with law enforcement officials, cosmetic surgeons and clients of unlicensed practitioners about the illegal toxic butt injections that are happening in hotel rooms and homes across America. Affecting everyone from strippers who enhance their rears to increase their employability to the salon owner who had to have her whole bottom reconstructed, the risks of back-street buttock injections are dangerously real.
Black-market “doctors” are enlarging people’s buttocks and hips with injections of liquids such as industrial silicon, mineral oil and concrete. These dangerous derrière-enhancing operations are directly linked to disfigurement, amputation and even death, however, on the rise.