It hit rottenness-bottom.
A UK gym bunny’s ‘futile’ search for a dream girl nearly killed her after her bottom started ‘rotting from the inside out’ after a botched Brazilian butt lift.
“The decision to have a buttock filler completely ruined my life,” Charlotte Booth, 36, told Kennedy News about the botched operation, which took place in May 2023.
“I was hoping it would quickly allow me to have the ideal bottom,” he explained. “Unfortunately it turned out to be the very big fix that nearly killed me and left me with a bum none of us want.”
Accompanying photos show huge, gangrenous abscesses on Booth’s back, which he said looked like she had been “stabbed on one side and shot on the other.”
Like many people these days, the Manchester native – who worked out religiously – yearned for a more toned rear.
Booth explained that she had seen her stories about cosmetic-obsessed people going to Turkey for liposuction, implants and other procedures — a trend that led to separate surgical horror stories.
However, the curmudgeonly-obsessed Brit eventually decided surgery wasn’t for her, instead looking into liquid Brazilian butt lifts, a procedure that involves injecting filler into one’s rear to increase size, curve and contour .
This back-amplification process looked promising given the lack of negative press at the time.
She decided to go ahead with the patootie-plumping procedure, choosing a company that rented a room in a beauty clinic where she had previously undergone other procedures.
They injected 100ml into each cheek which felt modest considering some butt lifters like to squirt 10x that amount.
The gym enthusiast was then discharged without “aftercare instructions” or a phone number and said she was “going to be in pain for a while”.
The esthetician told her to drink as much water as she can because the filler absorbs water.
Booth found these sketchy instructions suspicious and decided to do her own research.
“I had gone online and looked into aftercare and how long I could potentially be in pain,” Booth said. He would say anything up to two weeks.”
On the fifth day, her bum started getting “really hot, really red and really pink.”
At first thinking she “drank too much water,” Booth decided to wait the recommended two-week window before seeking medical attention.
That’s when her butt issues started to spiral out of control. Just 12 days later, Booth reportedly developed the aforementioned craters on her bottom and had a heart rate of 160 beats along with a high temperature.
“By the time we got to day 12, I had passed out at home in pain,” she said.
But when she reported to hospital, the distraught girl said “judgmental” doctors turned her away, claiming there was nothing they could do despite her obvious symptoms.
With no other choice, Booth returned to the clinic where she received the nightmare procedure.
She was reportedly pumped full of solvent, given some antibiotics and taken out – but her condition only went down from there.
“I had to leave the solvent clinic with only my knives because my pants were full of pus,” he said. “I literally had pus and filler run down my leg.”
Booth returned to the emergency room, where doctors reported she had sepsis, gangrene and necrotizing abscesses — serious, life-threatening complications that left her medical consultant “horrified” that his colleagues had sent her away a week earlier.
“Before the operation, where this hole was in my left buttock, it was all black and crunchy,” she recalls. It looked like burnt chicken skin. The consultant said he had never seen anything like it. He said I was “foaming off both buttocks”.
He added: “I was literally cleaning from the inside out.”
Fearing that Booth wouldn’t make it until morning if they didn’t operate that night, the surgeons put her under the knife, eventually removing a large chunk of her left buttock as it had completely rotted away.
Fortunately the operation was successful. However, Booth spent the next nine days in recovery “screaming” in hospital because the pain was “worse than childbirth”.
“I have never, ever experienced such pain in my life,” lamented the patient. “I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy.”
Now, 18 months later, Booth says she is far from “fully recovered”. The BBL survivor said she still has trouble walking upstairs, can’t sit in certain chairs and lost tons of weight with profuse vomiting because her body put energy into recovery instead of keeping food down.
In light of the traumatic history, the Brit urges people to avoid the procedure.
“Don’t do it. Don’t take the risk,” Booth said. “From what I found out now BBL fluids are actually more dangerous than going to Turkey and getting the implants.”
Instead, he urges people to shape their booty naturally through squats and other glute strengthening exercises.
He added that the so-called quick fix should be banned.
“They need to stop this before more people like me suffer or more people die,” added the survivor, referring to the tragic case of Alice Webb, a mother of five who died in September after undergoing the procedure.
Booth is not alone in speaking out against the potentially lethal injection. After Webb’s death, London surgeon Dr Qasim Usmani, 32, said the death was inevitable as injections are not well regulated in the UK.
“I would never touch that process with a barge pole,” he declared. “It is devastating that a mother of five lost her life because of this dangerous procedure.”
