JACKSON, Miss. -- Women across the U.S. are risking their lives for black market procedures to make their buttocks bigger, often involving home-improvement materials such as silicone injected by ...

Buttock augmentation injections are filled with volumizing substances, such as silicone. They’re injected directly into the buttocks and are intended to be cheaper alternatives to surgical procedures.

Rich Fury/Getty Cardi B A plastic surgeon is speaking out about the "devastating" risks of butt injections — and how complicated it is to remove them. "Most of these illegal injections are made with ...

Brazilian butt lifts (or BBLs) have gained popularity over the last few years, but the procedure can be quite dangerous. Alternatives to the surgery, such as butt-augmentation injections, have ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Buttock augmentation procedures, including BBLs and injections, are more popular than ever as experts and celebrities warn about ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. A Riverside County woman who for years administered risky and potentially dangerous silicone butt injections was ...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A former madam who bragged of doing black-market “body sculpting” on thousands of women was convicted of murder in the death of a dancer whose heart stopped after nearly half a ...

Within an hour of receiving black market buttock injections in a Kenner motel room on an October evening in 2015, 42-year-old Juliet Capps began experiencing excruciating pain, according to ...

Dr. Michael K. Obeng, a board certified plastic surgeon and a member of PEOPLE's Health Squad, warns against getting illegal silicone injections Anna Lazarus Caplan is a writer-reporter for PEOPLE.