British women cast aside the skinny look in quest for a superior posterior

The Sunday Telegraph (UK) ^ | August 29, 2004 | By Jacqui Goddard in Miami and Nicola Davidson

[aculeus]

For years, men have known to bite their lips dutifully and shake their heads convincingly when asked the classic question: "Does my bum look big in this?"

They need lie no more. The answer women now want to hear, it seems, is "Yes".

Buttock augmentation surgery has soared in popularity, as women seek to plump up their rumps and prove that bigger is better. Plastic surgeons attribute the trend partly to the popularity of ample-reared, "bootylicious" pop divas such as Jennifer Lopez and Beyonce Knowles.

"It seems to be this year's 'it' surgery and Jennifer Lopez is the poster-girl," said Dr Leroy Young, director of the American Society for Plastic Surgery's Emerging Trends Taskforce, which has recorded a five-fold increase in buttock augmentation operations in the past 12 months.

The trend has also reached Britain, with a substantial rise in patients anxious to have the surgery. Adrian Richards, a consultant plastic and cosmetic surgeon practising in Harley Street, said that four or five years ago he was never asked to perform the surgery but now increasing numbers of women sought augmentation.

"The reason for the change is that our perception of the ideal body shape is changing," he said. "Patients want a rounder and fuller posterior. Ten years ago it was fashionable to look slim, be small busted and have no bottom, the body ideal now is more rounded and voluptuous."

Dr Young in America agreed. He said: "People like to emulate celebrities and women like that well-endowed look. Clothes these days are cut to show the figure very anatomically and they just don't look right if you don't fill them out. Buttock augmentation has moved from being a fringe procedure into the mainstream, it's reached a tipping point."

Nearly 4,000 Americans underwent underwent buttock augmentation last year, compared with 614 two years ago. The procedure involves implanting bags of silicone, or quantities of fat removed from elsewhere in the body, into the buttocks to make them more pronounced. About 90 per cent were female, some of them 50-year-olds on a mission to turn back time and others as young as 21 and anxious to reach more "bootylicious" proportions.

The implants used are the same as those used for breast implants. State-of-the art buttock implants are made with soft silicone. Recently, there has been an an increase in the use of saline implants, which are made from salt water. These, however, are harder and firmer than natural bodyflesh and can be uncomfortable.

The method of inserting and positioning the implant depends on patient preferences, anatomy and the surgeon's recommendation. The implants are placed into each buttock area through a single incision overlying the tailbone. The buttock muscle (gluteus maximus) is lifted up and a pocket is made just large enough for the implant. Having one's gluteus maximised does not come cheap. Costs typically range between £3,800 to £5,500, similar to a facelift or breast enlargement.

Nor is it the most comfortable of cosmetic procedures; patients are warned that they probably won't be able to sit down for around 10 days after surgery.

Suzanna Drake, 34, from Stanmore, London, had the procedure last year after reading about it on a holiday in America. She never felt comfortable with her bottom and was surprised at how many plastic and cosmetic surgeons in Britain performed the surgery.

Ms Drake is delighted with the results. "I never used to walk around the beach, I would dread the summer. I had no bottom and I felt so unfeminine. Now I can wear jeans and my confidence has soared."

Lynne, a 40-year-old American who had the surgery last year, agreed: "My butt has always just been really flat and oh my goodness, the difference now is unbelievable. It's the shape, the contouring, the slope. It's cut years off my age - I look like I have an 18-year-old's butt. It's firm, it's tight, it looks good."

Surgeons say that the trend for buttock augmentation has been stimulated by television programmes that revolve around cosmetic surgery, such as the drama Nip/Tuck and Fox television's The Swan, in which 17 "ugly ducklings" are given three months to get themselves to beauty queen level assisted by a small army of plastic surgeons.

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[Rome2000]

- Military plastic surgeons REQUIRE work to hone their skills to help wounded soldiers/sailors;

I would have them work on making civilians boobies and butts bigger and have those same civilians PAY FOR IT at a discounted rate.

The very concept that taxpayers should pay to make soldiers breasts bigger is insane.

If Klintoon was still CIC the GOP would be up in arms.

The Feds have really got us by the short ones.

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

Are you sure she qualifies as a female?

[Spyder]

According to the Army, between 2000 and 2003 its doctors performed four hundred and ninety-six breast enlargements and a thousand three hundred and sixty-one liposuction surgeries on soldiers and their dependents.

If you run the numbers, that's about 160 augmentations a year for the entire Army - 3 or so a week, spread out between three huge tertiary care centers and a number of smaller hospital systems, most of which have more than a few plastic surgeons on staff. Is it surprising that a few of these plastic surgeons might like to keep their skills up in all areas of the specialty?

There's no way that's being used as a recruiting tool. There aren't enough being done.

[nmh]

What's your take on this?

Are the fat rumps taking over?

[LibKill]

Sheesh! Covered in #34, and repeated here.

In a theoretical sense only. I'd pay a year's income to avoid touching her.

[LibKill]

Sir Mix-A-Lot
Baby Got Back

(valley-girl voice)
Oh my god, Becky, look at her butt
It is so big
She looks like one of those rap guys girlfriends
Who understands those rap guys
They only talk to her because she looks like a total prostitute, ok?
I mean her butt
It's just so big
I can't believe it's so round
It's just out there
I mean, it's gross
Look, she's just so..... black!
(end valley-girl voice)


I like big butts and I can not lie
You other brothers can't deny
That when a girl walks in with an itty bitty waste
And a round thing in your face
You get sprung
Wanna pull up front
Cuz you notice that butt was stuffed
Deep in the jeans she's wearing
I'm hooked and I can't stop staring
Oh, baby I wanna get with ya
And take your picture
My homeboys tried to warn me
But with that butt you got
Me so horny
Ooh, rub all of that smooth skin
You say you wanna get in my Benz
Well use me, use me cuz you ain't that average groupy

I've seen them dancin'
The hell with romancin'
She sweat, wet, got it goin' like a turbo 'Vette

I'm tired of magazines
saying flat butt's the only thing
Take the average black man and ask him that
She gotta pack much back, so

Fellas (yeah), fellas (yeah)
Has your girlfriend got the butt (hell yeah)
Well shake it, shake it, shake it, shake it, shake that healthy butt
Baby got back

(LA face with Oakland booty)

I like'em round and big
And when I'm throwin' a gig
I just can't help myself
I'm actin like an animal
Now here's my scandal

I wanna get you home
And ugh, double ugh, ugh
I ain't talkin' bout Playboy
Cuz silicone parts were made for toys
I wannem real thick and juicy
So find that juicy double
Mixalot's in trouble
Beggin' for a piece of that bubble
So I'm lookin' at rock videos
Watchin' these bimbos walkin' like hoes
You can have them bimbos
I'll keep my women like Flo Jo
A word to the thick soul sistas
I wanna get with ya
I won't cus or hit ya
But I gotta be straight when I say I wanna fuck
Til the break of dawn
Baby, I got it goin on
A lot of pimps won't like this song
Cuz them punks like to hit it and quit it
But I'd rather stay and play
Cuz I'm long and I'm strong
And I'm down to get the friction on

So ladies (yeah), ladies (yeah)
If you wanna role in my Mercedes (yeah)
Then turn around
Stick it out
Even white boys got to shout
Baby got back

(LA face with the Oakland booty)

Yeah baby
When it comes to females
Cosmo and got nothin to do with my selection
36-24-36
Only if she's 5'3"

So your girlfriend rolls a Honda
Playin' workout tapes by Fonda
But Fonda ain't got a motor in the back of her Honda
My anaconda don't want none unless you've got buns hon
You can do side bends or sit-ups, but please don't lose that butt
Some brothers wanna play that hard role
and tell you that the butt need to go
So they toss it and leave it
And I pull up quick to retrieve it
So Cosmo says you're fat
Well I ain't down with that
Cuz your waste is small and your curves are kickin'
And I'm thinkin' bout stickin'
To the beanpole dames in the magazines
You ain't it Miss Thang
Give me a sista I can't resist her
Red beans and rice didn't miss her
Some knucklehead tried to dis
Cuz his girls were on my list
He had game but he chose to hit 'em
And pulled up quick to get with 'em
So ladies if the butt is round
And you wanna triple X throw down
Dial 1-900-mixalot and kick them nasty thoughts
Baby got back

[Iberian]

Rice and beans rule!! Cuban Black beans and rice with ropa vieja... Plantin bananas and set to go.

[LibKill]

Baby Got Back. In Latin.

De clunibus magnis amandis oratio
Mixaloti equitis

mehercle!
(By Hercules!)
Rebecca, ecce! tantae clunes isti sunt!
(Rebecca, behold! Such large buttocks she has!)

amica esse videtur istorum hominum rhythmicorum.
(She appears to be a girlfriend of one of those rhythmic-oration people.)
sed, ut scis,
(But, as you know)
quis homines huiusmodi intellegere potest?
(Who can understand persons of this sort?)
colloquuntur equidem cum ista eo tantum, quod scortum perfectum esse videtur.
(Verily, they converse with her for this reason only, namely, that she appears to be a complete whore.)
clunes, aio, maiores esse!
(Her buttocks, I say, are rather large!)
nec possum credere quam rotondae sint.
(Nor am I able to believe how round they are.)
en! quam exstant! nonne piget te earum?
(Lo! How they stand forth! Do they not disgust you?)
ecce mulier Aethiops!
(Behold the black woman!)

magnae clunes mihi placent, nec possum de hac re mentiri.
(Large buttocks are pleasing to me, nor am I able to lie concerning this matter.)
quis enim, consortes mei, non fateatur,
(For who, colleagues, would not admit,)
cum puella incedit minore medio corpore
(Whenever a girl comes by with a rather small middle part of the body)
sub quo manifestus globus, inflammare animos
(Beneath which is an obvious spherical mass, that it inflames the spirits)
virtute praestare ut velitis, notantes bracas eius
(So that you want to be conspicuous for manly virtue, noticing her breeches)
clunibus profunde fartas esse
(Have been deeply stuffed with buttock?)
a! captus sum, nec desinere intueri possum.
(Alas! I am captured, nor am I able to desist from gazing.)
o dominola mea, volo tecum congredi
(My dear lady, I want to come together with you)
pingereque picturam tui.
(And make a picture of you.)
familiares mei me monebant
(My companions were trying to warn me)
sed clunes istae libidinem in me concitant.
(But those buttocks of yours arouse lust in me.)
o! cutis rugosa glabraque!
(O skin wrinkled and smooth!)
dixistine te in meum vehiculum intrare velle?
(Did you say you wish to enter my vehicle?)
in arbitrio tuo totus veni
(I am entirely at your disposal)
quia non es mediocris adsecula.
(Because you are not an average hanger-on.)
vidi illam saltantem.
(I have seen her dancing.)
obliviscere igitur blanditiarum!
(Forget, therefore, about blandishments!)
tantus sudor! tantus umor!
(Such sweat! Such moisture!)
vehor quasi in curru quadrigarum!
(I am borne along as if by a four-horse chariot!)
taedet me in diurnis legendi
(I am tired of reading in the gazettes)
planas clunes gratiores iudicari.
(That flat buttocks are judged more pleasing.)
rogate quoslibet Aethiopes: responsum erit
(Ask any black men you wish: the answer will be)
se libentius expletiores anteponere.
(Rather that they prefer fuller ones.)
o consortes (quid est?) o consortes (quid est?)
(O colleagues [What is it?] O colleagues [What is it?])
habent amicae vestrae magnas clunes? (certe habent!)
(Do your girlfriends have large buttocks? [They certainly have!])
hortamini igitur ut eas quatiant (ut quatiant!)
(Encourage them therefore to shake them! [To shake them!])
ut quatiant! (ut quatiant!)
(To shake them! [To shake them!])
ut quatiant illas clunes sanas!
(To shake those healthy buttocks!)
domina mea exstat a tergo!
(My mistress stands out behind!)

[BIGLOOK]

YES!

[Wolverine]

As a tax payer...I have no complaint for the expenses incurred for such surgery. Dems tried to make a point of this benefit on ABC GMA... AND WERE SHOT DOWN.

This type of surgery maintains Military Surgeon skills and directly benefits wounded who require body reconstruction.

You would be surprised how many soldiers are getting LASIC Surgery before going to dusty theaters of operations.

[Erasmus]

[...] which has recorded a five-fold increase in buttock augmentation operations [...]

Now that's a graphic way of putting it.

[VOA]

bump

[Terabitten]

If you run the numbers, that's about 160 augmentations a year for the entire Army - 3 or so a week, spread out between three huge tertiary care centers and a number of smaller hospital systems, most of which have more than a few plastic surgeons on staff. Is it surprising that a few of these plastic surgeons might like to keep their skills up in all areas of the specialty?

Does anyone have any data to show if this is done on servicemembers or for their spouses? I don't see a big deal either way - I'm just curious. If some E5 wants a set of bolt-ons, I don't see it as a problem.

[Denver Ditdat]

No pictures? I'm bummed!

Here ya go...

[numberonepal]

Pre or post Living Color Fly Girls?

Both!

[Libertina]

That's hideous.

[Chemist_Geek]

* "If the Army is doing breast augmentations, it's doing it to practice breast augmentations, period."

Welllll... not really. Surgical skills are transferable to an extent. The maneuvers a surgeon makes while doing a breast augmentation also come into play in other plastic and reconstructive surgeries.

I highlighted reconstructive for a reason. We, and our veterans, need the services' and the VA's surgeons to restore our maimed veterans as close to original as possible... We owe it to them.

[ItsForTheChildren]

Where'd you go to college for that??

[Spyder]

Does anyone have any data to show if this is done on servicemembers or for their spouses? I don't see a big deal either way - I'm just curious. If some E5 wants a set of bolt-ons, I don't see it as a problem.

My guess (purely guesswork) is it probably done for those "in the know" - nurses, lab techs, docs' wives, etc., who discover that one of the plastics guys on staff likes to keep his skills up and is looking for practice. Considering the extremely low number being done, it's definitely not something that most active duty folk have a clue is available.

Hubby's an Army dentist and does a certain amount of cosmetic dentistry (only on active duty troops) on folk who seem interested and motivated to take care of it. Also, only when he's not swamped processing reservists with grunge mouths just called back to duty.

[Marie Antoinette]

Hey look! I'm back in style!