Cardi B has an important PSA for any of her fans who might be thinking about getting plastic surgery on their buttocks.
In a recent Instagram Live video, the rapper got candid about her decision to remove the majority of her buttocks injections, and she cautioned her fans that the procedure can be dangerous.
“In August, I got surgery, and I removed 95% of my biopolymers. … If you don’t know what it is, it’s a– shots,” the 30-year-old said in the video, as reported by People.
In 2018, the rapper discussed the procedure with GQ and revealed she had silicone illegally injected into her buttocks in a basement apartment in New York City for $800. She also explained that the woman who performed the procedure ended up going to jail when a customer “died on her table.”
In her Instagram Live video, which is no longer viewable, Cardi B told her followers to think twice before considering the procedure.
“All I’m going to say is that if you’re young, if you’re 19, 20, 21, and sometimes you’re too skinny, and you be like, ‘OMG I don’t have enough fat to put in my a–,’ so you result to a– shots, DON’T!” she said.
The procedure — which “increases the size and shape of your butt,” according to the Cleveland Clinic, and is often referred to as a Brazilian butt lift (BBL) — has increased in popularity over the years.
The safest way to perform a BBL is by injecting fat into the buttocks that’s from another area of the body, not by injecting silicone or another substance, Dr. Josef Hadeed, a board-certified plastic surgeon in Beverly Hills, California, and member of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, tells TODAY.com.
Cardi B called the removal process that she underwent “really crazy.” Explaining what it may have entailed, Hadeed says: “Depending on the severity of it and how much needs to be removed, sometimes it can be removed with ultrasonic liposuction. But in more moderate to severe cases, tissue may actually need to be excised or cut out and removed from the bottom.”
The rapper went on to recommend that her fans research everything that goes into a BBL before making any rash decisions.
“When it comes to BBLs, if y’all want advice from me, before you get your BBL done, you have to make sure your bl**d levels are all right,” she said. “If a doctor says your bl00d levels are too low or you have diabetes or whatever, don’t do it.”
Cardi B also explained her motivation for sharing her story, saying that “a lot of people thought as soon as I gave birth (to son Wave), I got my body done.”