Americas Big Butt Obsession
It’s no secret that the accepted image of beauty has changed throughout the years. From the plump and curvaceous women in the art depicted by Renaissance painters to the wafer thin models of the 80’s and 90’s, beauty is definitely in the eye of the beholder.
But if the recent statistics from the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery are correct, America is becoming obsessed with big buttocks. Even though there were only 4,996 buttock augmentation procedures performed in 2009; compared to the 311,957 breast augmentation procedures performed, that’s still a 37.3% increase of butt augmentation surgeries performed in 2008 with virtually none being performed in 1997.
That, plus a simple Google search for phrases like “bigger buttocks exercises“, “butt implants” or “butt augmentation” brings up between 543,000 and 1,310,000 results, it’s clear to see Americans like bigger butts.
What’s Behind This Big Buttocks Trend?
Models like Vida Guerra and celebrities such as Kim Kardashian definitely have something to do with making bigger bottoms popular again. You would be hard pressed to find a fashion or tabloid magazine that doesn’t mention or show pictures of the buttocks of one of these lovely ladies.
Everyone wants to know what butt exercises do they do? How can I get my butt to look this good? Sadly, the majority of the answers come down to simple genetics. Those of us not lucky enough to inherit such luck from our parents still have hope and its called plastic surgery.
The Popularity of Brazilian Butt Augmentation and Implants
All this obsession with wanting the perfect rear end has led to a new plastic surgery procedure known as Brazilian Butt Augmentation or Brazilian Butt Implants. Named so after the “famous” round buttocks of the women of Brazil, women are lining up to enhance the size and shape of their butt.
This procedure was first introduced a few years ago by a small hand full of surgeons but can now be found being performed at almost every plastic surgery center from the east to the west coast. Plastic surgeon’s like Constantino Mendieta M.D. have trained for years in Brazil to learn the specifics of this technique and has even developed his own adaption to it with the use of Fat Transfer using your own fat to help give you that rounder bottom.
Safe to say the popularity of bigger butts’ in America and the butt augmentation trend itself will continue to grow , until the next idea of beauty changes once again.
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