She was obsessed with having perfect buttocks and she was prepared to
do anything for that.
But former hairstylist Apryl Michelle Brown's dream backfired.
The 46-year-old mother of two from Los Angeles had to undergo a quadruple
limb and buttock amputation. She has now come forward to warn other women
against black market silicone injections.
Speaking to British TV channel ITV's This Morning programme from Los
Angeles, Ms Brown recounted how she spent five years in excruciating pain when
an unlicensed practitioner injected her buttocks with bathroom sealant, telling
her it was silicone, in order to enhance them.
Doctors had no idea how to treat the botched implants and told her she
might have to live with the agony.
But when they finally operated, they found so much damage that she was
put into an induced coma.
It was only when she woke up two months later that she discovered what
medical workers had done to keep her alive.
She said her life changed after a woman visited her hair salon a few
years ago, saying that she had silicone injections.
Said Ms Brown: "I hadn't done any other research, so I didn't know
all the horror stories.
"I went to someone's home - she wasn't licensed, but I didn't know
that then - and lay on her daughter's bed, wearing special panties.
"She told me I'd need four sets of injections, and when she
started to do them, it was very painful. I could feel it going into my nerves
and muscles."
The pain did subside and she returned for a second lot of injections.
It was when she left the house the second time that she had "an
epiphany".
"I thought, what are you doing? And that was a sign to stop,"
Ms Brown said.
Soon, things began to go dramatically wrong. The area around the
injections became incredibly painful. She described it as "like a
toothache, labour pain and a migraine".
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