Plastic Surgery in High School? Black Market Butt Injections

Co-Ed Controversy

Susan Patton, a mother of two and Princeton University alum, created buzz on and off campus when she wrote an open letter in 2013 to The Daily Princetonian advising female students to secure a spouse before graduation. She has since authored a book called Marry Smart: Advice for Finding THE ONE, which includes passages encouraging teen girls to undergo pre-college plastic surgery to help land a husband and young women to have babies before pursuing their careers.

“Our young women, especially our well-educated young women, have taken their eye off the ball, in terms of planning for their personal happiness,” Susan says. “My book is not for everybody. It’s specifically for young women who know they do want to have children. They do want to be in a traditional marriage.”

Susan and The Doctors debate her divisive opinions on what women should be focusing on in their college years.
 

Dangers of Black Market Butt Enhancements
An increasing number of women in the U.S. are turning to black market butt injections to enhance the shape and size of their backside on a budget. The illegal injections are often performed by unlicensed practitioners with little or no medical training, and in some cases, the results are disfiguring — and even deadly.

Apryl, 47, was teased about having a flat butt since she was 7 years old. In 2004, she met a woman at her hair salon, who told her that she performed buttock injections. “I felt like it was a blessing. Honestly, I really did,” Apryl says.

A week later, Apryl allowed the woman to inject her buttocks with what she believed to be silicone. “I didn’t do any research on the silicone that was injected in my body, nor did I do any research on this woman,” she says.

Over the next two years, Apryl developed hardening, discoloration, itchiness and extreme pain in the areas where the injections were administered. As her symptoms progressively worsened, she met with numerous doctors and specialists about having the silicone removed. Apryl was told time and again that there was no way to remove all of the silicone without removing her buttocks in the process.

In 2009, Apryl was admitted to the hospital for her excruciating pain. A topical cream, meant to reduce the inflammation, was applied to the affected area; however, it ended up triggering an adverse reaction that left Apryl with a gaping wound on her right buttock that eventually led to a severe staph infection. She was rushed to the emergency room, and doctors speculated she had only 24 hours to live.

Apryl was placed in a medically induced coma, and was given a medication to increase her blood pressure. Surgeons then excised the infected tissue and the hardened material from her buttocks, which turned out to be bathroom sealant.

When Apryl awoke from her coma, she discovered that the blood pressure medication that helped save her life had caused gangrene in her extremities. During her six-month hospitalization, Apryl underwent 27 surgeries, including the amputation of her buttocks, hands and feet.

“My hands and my feet … they will never come back. That’s over for me,” April says. “But at least I can use this to help share with someone else, so that they will never have to experience anything like this.”