In this episode of Fault Lines, we look into Florida’s cosmetic surgery industry, which has made national headlines for its high incidence of patient death and disfigurement, especially with regard to the extremely popular Brazilian butt lift (BBL) surgeries.
The Florida Board of Medicine has spent years trying to place guardrails on the industry, particularly with regard to BBL surgeries, but our investigation reveals a pattern of surgeons engaging in unsafe practices and lobbying lawmakers to allow them to continue doing so.
Producer: Nicolas Pollock
Correspondent: Natasha Del Toro
Director of Photography: Jeremy Raff
Editor: Warwick Meade
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Production Manager: Anabelle Rojas
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Legal: Mike Abed, Eithar Abu Taha
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We need to redefine the term “beauty” eradicate the colonial concept of beauty
How criminals get away with murder under the heading of doctors.
Great program!! Please do one on dentists here in the United States.
You shouldn’t be a cheapskate when it comes to your body. They don’t even need these surgeries. You can’t fix stupid. Don’t feel sorry for any of these women. No one forced them.
It looks like alot of these women are already considerably overweight before these surgeries. Would that not compromise their experience as well? How good is their health going into this??
I clicked for Micheal jackson
🤣🤣🤣 same
It is fascinating to note the significant surge in popularity of these surgeries between 2010 and 2015, coinciding with the rise of Nicki Minaj and the Kardashians as prominent figures in popular culture. While it is crucial to remember that correlation does not imply causation, it is worth acknowledging the profound impact celebrities have on shaping societal norms and perceptions.
So much insecurity. Social media is all the blame.
I sincerely pray that women will value themselves for their mind and spirit rather than the social approval of their body. There’s no refund? Well death is also no take backs
Those BBL butts hardly ever look good. They look comical and unappealing.
I’ve seen women with bbl’s and it just looks bizarre and unnatural. It doesn’t match the rest of their body. It’s real obvious something has been altered. I don’t understand why people go through with it.
They need to stop eating burito lol
Thank you so much for this documentary! I was considering having my third breast reconstruction after breast cancer. My sweetie told me repeatedly that I’m fine just the way I am. He said he spent a lifetime trying to find me and doesn’t want to lose me. I’ll finally just accept my body just the way it is. It may not be perfect but I’m alive and this body is mine.
Prayerfully people will learn to accept the bodies they have and move forward knowing that they are enough.
Get beautiful tattoos instead
No offense she wants the perfect body but u have to lose weight. She take the fat from her neck and put it in her brain.
Can someone explain why that black lady is grey?
What other things has that mom had done? Something with her skin too? She could have died. I feel for her😢
I worked in a plastic surgery center and our surgeons had to meet their quota if not they would not get priority. We had one doctor literally do a lipo so fast he accidentally perforated the abdominal wall.
It is a money maker business and patient safety doesn’t seem to be priority.
Yeah it’s sad women feel like they have to look perfect. It’s society. What a shame.
Most recent Dr Zach in Miami…. Though on the real dr Miami
Adults suffer from peer pressure as well, it just looks different. It can look like this, voluntarily signing up to be close to death b/c you haven’t ever died before. Pretty does hurt, ain’t that what Beyonce’ said WOAH LAWD.
Yeah, absolutely not.
You are perfect as God made you. No makeup, no Fakeness, be natural.
Wanting the “perfect body” actually stems from a much more deeper root. Our economy needs to survive on effective marketing. With effective marking, then creates a window for people to “want” things and ultimately wanting a piece of the pie in order to feel accepted. So wanting the perfect body, stems from acceptance. This vicious circle is of course extremely addictive. It’s sad.
I wish often I could take my TOO abundant natural … chest 👀 tissue… and give me a booty from that. I wasn’t joking really but, this is scary. 6-10 surgeries for ANY SURGEON is insane. Especially when there are understaffing and burnout issues rampant since the C-Virus. ❤ I can understand the desire to change my body but I guess (rather luckily?) Canada has higher standards and they are just not in my price range. RIP to the entirely beautiful souls lost needlessly. Y’all were always enough. ❤
You pay to look disgusting 😮.
I live in Miami and these doctors are fed up!
The gym is still open, use it
scary..are they doctors or butchers!!!!its a scene from a horror movie
I guess people who are obsessed with their appearance get extremely depressed once they get old.
These women who die are young..most of them are 35 and under
Sheila’s skin also looks very unusual like Sammy Sosa. Are we not supposed to address that? Her daughters are beautiful and it seems so was she before the wreckage.
Such an unnecessary surgery. I wish people would learn to love themselves. America is weird.
0:35 It’s funny because every one of those women had work done.
Vote blue to save lives…it’s not a catch line, it’s the truth.
I’m not going under the knife unless it’s saving my life!
@13:23 so incredibly delusional, horrible thing to say when you know you led to the death of a mother of 3 and you have the gull to say you are going for the perfect body when we can CLEARLY see that you are overweight and undoubtedly do not practice healthy lifestyle routines.
Im sorry but this is not on the doctors. The surgery is NOT NECESSARY. The patients have something internally, mentally, or spiritually wrong to request this.
Charles Darwin was never wrong.
oh slim thicc — this is going to age like a fine milk LOL
All I can think is did she know something bad was happening? Did she suffer? 😢
why is sheila that color?
Imagine dying because you wanted a bigger rear end AND you pay for it?! At least they get a discount on their euthanasia.🤦♀️🫠💀
The more this happens and gets more widespread, I appreciate and admire the natural feminine body more and more.
How did she think a surgeon who offers a $4,000 surgery for $126 is trust worthy doctor 🤦🏾♀️
The problem is they looked UNNATURAL, cause big or small or flat the natural curved is more feminine than a bunch of body greased push on inside and makes a woman looked grotesque.
It takes two to tango. For these surgeons it’s about the money. For the patients it’s about vanity. Obsession with either is not good.
I went in for a consult to get a tummy tuck. My surgeon outright told me “I don’t do BBLs in case you were wondering, they are dangerous”. Made me trust him 100%. North Carolina here..
I’ve been off of instagram for four months now. I felt depressed and insecure while on that app. Ladies, for your wellness, chill out on social media! Don’t have these apps make you question your worth. Take care of your mind 🙏🏾
Hmm, when shallow people try to sound wise… Beautiful…
Respect to the grandfather.
i will never understand…the surgery looks terrible & will only continue to look terrible as you age. just hit the gym and change ur diet & lifestyle. It also costs a lot less
Uneducated, stupid, stupid girls!
Why don’t these girls/women spend their time doing something useful and productive?
You get what you pay for – should never go to a discount doctor.
She would do better working on her obvious skin problems.
All plastic surgery practices offer financing. The reporter intimates this place is doing something unethical and/or unusual in this regard.
Doing all that but working out. It’s a sickness
Jesus. Shiela’s hideous, plastic face is what we should be talking about.
Exactly what I was saying she looks like leather face 😭😭
shelia is also adicted to bleaching
She might have vitiligo
I think she has a severe case of vitiligo. Look at her arm at 18:00
13:27 her own friend died a week before her 2nd bbl surgery, and yet she still did it out of “cant refund” thing AND didnt even looked like slightest bit scared or wanting to stop??? crazy.
Mentally challenged people such as Shiela and her daughters should be given protection under the law.
I’m not even against cosmetic surgeries. It’s your body and your life.
But it sure is telling that the majority of such surgeries are unecessary if people just put in the effort to go to the gym and have healthy eating habits.
There should be a mandatory psychological analysis before getting cosmetic surgery. And how is it allowed to perform surgery without having a proper consultation first or did i mishear that? When i met the anaesthesiologist before having surgery (not cosmetic), he replanned the whole thing and i’m glad he did, because i still reacted to going under by throwing up and being dizzy and not coherent for almost 2 days.
When they ax.
When they ax: Translation: When they ask.
We should be using plastic surgery in a responsible manner like reconstructive surgery say after accident, burns etc. Not for fake beauty
funny, its always the women who are age 30 and older, or the fat ones that want BBL’s to make up for their lack of beauty.
Once you are 30 or older as a woman, you are past your prime, Danea also had 3 kids already?! lol women are something else…
If ALL of your friends have BBL, then you are in wrong company 😢
wanna perfect body…??
let me introduce you to a place called, GYM…..
Those women go get fat sucked out to still be fat , I’m lost , your life is worth fitting in ?
Dr. Alvarez is a disgrace to the medical field.
Go to the gym! Diet 😢
He’s correct, those doctors are disgrace to medicine.
I live in a third world country and this is so unheard of for us. I don’t even personally know anyone who has had anything done to their body. I think it’s important to learn to go back to the basics and truly learn to love yourself. Change what you can through diet and exercise but leave everything else alone
Women should start loving themselves and go healthy way to have your dream body…… any short cuts is high risk and it’s never along term solutions…..
our grandparents lived long life because of eating healthy foods, been active throughout… let’s hit the gym
Huny your gambling with your life 😢 13:33
mental illness.
God created us perfect .
The amount of insecurity on those women’s who’s willing to go thru surgeries and bleaching their skin for appearance is just beyond me.
The doctor called 911, seems like a red flag to me. Yes I’m commenting as a layman. There’s no emergency medical staff where surgery is taking place??? What fuckery is this.
Surgeons for Safetly – using the same excuse every drug dealer on the streets do: “If we don’t do it, someone else will.”
Why are people doing this to themselves? 🙁
Luv my African figure,the world want to look like African women
Beauty lies in the eyes of beholder..
What’s that on her lips?
Just as they wonna hold rappers responsible for drug & drug violence…when will y’all start holding these rappers both female & male responsible for these false sexy acceptable body images…when will the terror of misogyny end for us men telling us what bra to wear shoes underwear makeup out birth control or right to choose…I’m ranting now…but self love more healthy food crops more safe water supply & air quality…more exercise over modern convince (let’s walk bike) dance in the street more…more love at family gatherings all these shootings…One Love People One Love
Did you guys see that kim got hers sucked out behind its not as popular as it used to be
These gym comments are SUPER annoying… a lot of your favorite fitness gurus have had plastic surgery… almost ALL of your favorite celebrities have had plastic surgery… exercise and diet DOES NOT change the SHAPE of your body… you will have the same SHAPE in a smaller body… so if you were shaped like a rectangle, you will be a smaller rectangle… shaped like a circle, you will be a smaller circle… shaped like an hourglass, you will be a smaller hourglass… people get BBLs because they want an hourglass shape… regardless of their exercise and dietary habits
I hope this stupid trend dies down within the years to come. I’ve been seeing huge pushback against BBL and now celebs are reversing them. What a stupid, stupid trend we fell into this era.
Instant gratification at its worse.
More warnings are needed for this
I love my flabby arms,I love my fupa, I love my hip dips,I love me❤❤❤❤
Social media killing us. Exercise, eat right, sleep well, Geeze!
I just wanna be me
Seriously! Isnt it time that people go back to really finding themselves and fully loving ourselves? This is sad. Especially for younger women 😢
So many women died getting BBL now Kim Kardashian is on ozempic and skinny is in…Just eat healthy and exercise your body is not a fad. Unless you are a billionaire or millionaire or have lots of money saved up and can afford to get plastic surgery upkeep and revisions if something goes wrong and also to afford the best doctors best to just not do it imo
As a man i don’t even find these types of bodies or butts attractive if I’m being honest. Hopefully more women realize that they don’t need them
I think the scariest part is it’s already flipping. The Kardashian cult is going skinny again, the heroin chic style is coming back, and this procedure is gonna be all done until the style changes again. And “for nothing” is gonna take on a whole new meaning 😢
Jacky Oh was a beautiful woman-a wife and a mother trying to get a “mommy makeover” and died in the process..it all comes down to your self esteem and whether or not its worth risking your life to look a certain way for complete strangers. Love yourselves ladies you are so worth it❤❤❤
It comes from self hate
All her frds have BBL? Maybe you need new friends. You become like what you hang with.
Is there some fat dissolve injection they can do before the surgery just in case the fat gets into the lungs?
Those poor girls. The only positive I can see is maybe them seeing their mom willing to die in front of them for a dress will make them realize how pointless that is.
20:23 wild, they are appealing to conservatives to get their chop shops back in business. Party of the people…. The dead people.
22:50
No offense but this sounds like the people that go in for cheap tattoos and are surprised they don’t come out great. Like yeah, duh, don’t pay 1/4 of the price for something permanent, let alone literally deadly
While I do put the blame on the Dr and the clinic, we have to stop normalizing plastic surgery. Stop the vanity and narcissism taking over the mentality. Character, integrity, honesty is gone, replaced by appearance. Its sickening.
Everyone don’t want to put in the hard work but want instant gratification. No sympathy.
Y’all deserve the fat in ya veins