In the news today is this, the story of a British woman who travelled to America to get a silicone injection into her butt. That's liquid silicone (unlike in, say, a breast augmentation where you have bags of silicone). She got off the plane and travelled to a hotel (!), where the procedure took place. Sadly, she died as a result, proving once again that plastic surgery can be seriously dangerous if you don't do it right. Further Googling told me that she's not the only woman who's died from having liquid silicone injected into her butt either.
But what really caught my interest was the mention of "pump-up parties" in the sidebar. Apparently these parties held by women "and members of the transgender community" (so... more women who happen to be transgender, in other words - you kind of fail, BBC News) where they all inject liquid silicone into each other and have a great time. Can that actually be a real thing? I wondered.
So I Googled that too. Actually, all that came up was similar news reports on this very incident, all whispering conspiratorially about these terrible parties. I couldn't find anything on actual parties themselves. To be honest, this sounds like a silly urban myth to me. If the BBC wants to provide actual proof of these parties ever really happening outside some silly reporter's imagination, then I'll link to that proof and apologize.
I won't hold my breath.
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