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I want to feel more confident.
I want to feel better.
I want to look better.
I want a cute little swimsuit
the summer.
I want to like myself more, more than I really do,
Because I absolutely love myself, I just want more.
Growing up I felt like I was the ugly duckling.
I grew up in a house where everyone was fit and petite
and almost perfect, and I was fatter.
My mom and dad used to call me a fat cow
and it made me feel horrible.
It made me feel horrible
Because my sisters were very thin and beautiful.
And then I’m just there.
led me to be bulimic, my room,
like closing the windows, you know
turn on the fire, work out until i pass out.
I wanted to be different.
I wanted to be someone else.
I personally have never considered plastic surgery
until I met this older man I was dating.
He told me I could look better
but I started to realize, like looking at other girls
like their behinds look good.
And that’s how I wanted it too.
I just grew up and worked and had money,
I was like, Well, I’m going to get plastic surgery.
Okay, so let’s talk
silicone breast implants.
This is silicone.
So I can pull it and I can squeeze it.
I’m going to bite it and it won’t break.
Want to see what’s inside?
Okay, great.
[Producer] Grab a light.
People tend to dismiss the power of vanity.
When I first started doing cosmetic surgery in 2006,
everyone wanted their butt smaller.
No one wanted it bigger.
What happened was that it started to move
in more curves.
And I remember saying, you know, telling my wife, like,
I think that will be a thing.
[Reporter] There is a popular procedure to help you go
from flat to great.
[Reporter 2] It’s a Brazilian butt lift.
[Reporter 3] Brazilian butt lift.
[Reporter 4] Brazilian Butt Lifts or BBL for short.
[Jennifer] Honestly, like all social media
they are girls with big butts.
[Dr. Schulman] You have people on social media
which show
their bodies and are very open that they had done things.
You know, 10 years ago he was so quiet.
Now it’s right in front of you on your Instagram feed.
Big booty, join the big booty club.
Okay, we’re about to go live on Snapchat.
So if you’re not following, do so now.
There was a study that showed that literally
in 3000 women who undergo this surgery die from it.
As you gain weight that is injected
into a blood vessel and goes to the right
in your heart and lungs and you die that way.
The Brazilian butt lift procedure is the fastest
growing plastic surgery procedure in the world.
There is enough patience to browse.
So, I kind of stopped counting, but I think
at this point I’m probably over 5,000 Brazilian butt lifts.
So Jennifer, interestingly enough, I had liposuction
on her about 10 or 11 years ago
and sometime about a year ago,
had a Brazilian butt lift with another surgeon.
So now she’s coming back to me because she’s unhappy
with the results and I will fix it for her.
[Jennifer] I spent so much money on this process,
right now,
what was it, 15,000 i spent, my folks tell me not to.
Save up for, you know, a down payment on an apartment
or like get a car or like, I want to be perfect.
[Dr. Schulman] Hi how are you?
Good.
[Dr. Schulman] Nice to see you too.
Nice to see you too.
Are you excited? Very excited.
Okay, nervous. I’m beyond nervous.
I’m sweating all over.
Okay, come stand up.
Let me take a look.
ok fine ok
that fat that’s here, shouldn’t be there
so i will clean it up.
We should be able to make your waist appear more
like this.
So when I remove this,
this will make you so thin.
When that’s in, then I’ll take it out.
So it will really limit you.
So we’ll make you look like this.
And then, you know,
I’ll take whatever fat I have, I’ll put it in there.
And like I said, I’ll either run out of fat
or run out of the room.
Okay cool, any questions?
[Jennifer] Honestly, not really.
I am very excited.
Good, good, good.
You will be happier. Okay, yes.
Okay, to the side.
What time do you wake up tomorrow?
Why do we have to get up early?
[Ian] Whenever you want me to get up.
I have to be there at 7:30.
I want to go,
it’s 40 minutes plus some traffic.
I want to go around-What move?
In the morning, it’s a working day, it’s Tuesday.
I guess that’s true.
I think you will really like the car too.
It is very nice and sporty.
Are you excited for me?
Yes, I’m excited for you.
I hope you get over this weird insecurity
for yourself and you are happy with yourself
when you look at yourself in the mirror
[Jennifer] You are funny.
I mean there will be a major physical change
that you are, everyone will look and notice
unless you’re wearing a backless t-shirt
and they don’t see your rolls, which I don’t even see
think someone knew you had them all along.
I knew I had them.
Tomorrow, I get my BBL, tomorrow my dreams come true.
I’m excited for a makeover.
I’m excited to sculpt my body the way I want it.
I love you.
Be well, okay?
I love you.
Pray for me, okay?
Don’t do nobody, okay, I love you, don’t cry.
[Dr. Schulman] Whatever surgery I do,
there is the physical and there is the psychological.
Because we are dealing with someone’s insecurities
you can’t really relate the seriousness
of their physical issue
with the severity of their emotional insecurity.
If I change the way Jennifer looks
and she feels better about herself
and then when she feels better about herself she changes her life.
Exceptional.
This is so weird.
[Surgeon] You will lie in bed.
You will be on your back.
Your head will go up to Dr. Novel.
[Surgeon 2] The pillow will be here.
My armpits are sweating.
[Surgeon] You are nervous. We are nervous.
Have a great sleep.
Ready to move on.
[Surgeon] Agree. Agree.
[Surgeon 3] Agree. Agreed.
I took out 4.2 liters of fat, two large bottles of soda.
So now here’s where the fun happens.
So now we put the fat.
Fat will come out, so he tells you
that you come to the point of filling up or filling up.
Okay, are you ready?
[Surgeon] Ready.
Wow. [clapping]
Nice, I will be very happy with the results.
You are in the recovery room.
Ok, everything went smoothly.
Hello, sleepy head.
Are you ok?
You hurt a lot; [whimpering]
I’m sorry baby, at least it’s over.
They are tiny.
They’re tiny, I know.
that’s why I bought you triple Keynes.
[gagging]
[Ian] Yes.
Are you going to work?
No, don’t go.
Okay, come here.
My feet are swollen.
Everything hurts.
I can’t even see my butt.
Hello, welcome, come Mrs. Prego.
I really didn’t get into a car accident yesterday.
[Sister] You serious?
Yes.
[Sister] What happened to you;
So I was planning to do a review
from the surgery I had in Florida.
Remember, I did it yesterday.
I just didn’t want to tell anyone
Because I didn’t want anyone to worry
or being scared or talking shit
why are you spending so much money on it?
Yeah, but you like to lie about a car accident
somewhat serious.
[Jennifer] I just wanted you to come.
You could have just said, come on.
[Jennifer] You wouldn’t come
if i told you
So what did you do?
You grew your butt.
[Jennifer] Not that I got it bigger.
I grew it a little, got it fuller.
[Ian] He reformed it.
[Jennifer] Yes, there you go, I reformatted it.
I took the risk surgery.
I took the risk, but I’m alive, it wasn’t my time yet.
It wasn’t my time. I am still here.
My last operation.
This is fat.
[Producer] This is fat.
It looks like a strawberry shake.
Wow.
Wow, it really comes in.
Oh, that happened to me yesterday?
Can you restore it? Can you restore it?
Like, do I love myself or hate myself?
I can’t tell what it is.
[Ian] Definitely both.
Fuck you. Never again.
Never do it again.
That’s it.
Are you sure? I am very sure.
So why didn’t you tell mom and dad?
[Jennifer] Because they don’t care.
Yes, but they are, they care.
[Jennifer] This is my third plastic surgery.
I know this is the last one.
This is the last time I will put myself through this.
I feel it in my heart.
I know it in my soul.
This is.
[Dr. Schulman] Hi how are you?
[Jennifer] Good. How are you;
[Dr. Schulman] I am glad to see you.
You are doing fine;
[Jennifer] Yes.
[Dr. Schulman] Well, that was you before,
remember that;
[Dr. Schulman] Yes. Yes.
It looks much better.
I feel that I have gained, not a new life
but I just see myself differently.
Just seeing how much I’ve grown
and seeing my body look different.
It feels really good.
[Ian] Would you like the pillow for your butt?
[Jennifer] Yes please.
Yes, I have to sit up like this.
I’m sick and tired
to carry my pillow wherever I go.
[Ian] You don’t carry your pillow everywhere.
I carry it for you.
[Jennifer] I know, but I hate using it at work.
Everyone is like you have the pillow for your butt?
I’m like, Yeah, I got the pillow for my butt.
OK, what’s the difference?
You’re the only one there with a booty that pops.
All others are flat
Like a surfboard.
What other procedure do you think I would do
Breast lift, face lift.
I don’t want a facelift, my face is perfect.
You are growing your breasts.
I don’t know, probably more lipo.
Where, I need more lipo.
Like I said you needed more lipo,
since i just said-
You suggest I need more lipo.
No, that’s what I’m saying
what i think you would think
that you think you need certain things
in your body modified because they are not perfect enough.
I would like you to look at yourself in the mirror
and to see the beauty and not see things that need to be changed.
That’s all I want for you.
I feel that way.
I’m about 95% there.
Yes I know. No, I’m 90% there.
No, I just want some
maybe a little lifter and a little chubby.
For whom? Fuller.
For myself. But why?
You’re perfect, no need
do a body modification to look better for yourself.
But I have to get the tits to match my butt.
You do not do this.
I think you have a perfect pair of tits.
I want you to be perfect
be as natural as possible.
This is natural, this is my own fat.
You know what I mean?
You are done?
When my fiance compliments me,
I closed it and it gets angry
to me and I’m like, oh you’re such a liar
stop saying that.
So why can’t you see yourself the way I see you?
Because I can not.
True beauty is designed to be unattainable.
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