We hear it all the time, black women are beautiful, we all need to learn to love ourself! Yet body augmentation and grotesque enhancements are growing ever more popular, it’s no longer about slimming a nose and increasing cleavage, these days butts are being ballooned, lips made to look like they are reacting to an allergy and all sorts of seriously f*cked up procedures in the pursuit of that beauty so many seek.

A beauty that for black women, at least in part, may well be traced back to disgusting colonial fixation on the black woman, the hottentot Venus’, in particular Sarah Baartman.

It’s messed up! Black Doctor recently wrote about the dangerous underground world of Pumping Patrties and below is an excerpt of their article:

Claudia Aderotimi flew from London for a butt-enhancement procedure. She went into a hotel near the Philadelphia airport not knowing that she’d meet an untimely death roughly 12 hours later. Padge-Victoria Windslowe, noted as the Philadelphia Black Madam, was sentenced to at least 10 years after the murder of Aderotimi. In court, the Black Madam said she had safely performed thousands of surgeries since the mid-1990s.

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A 20-something-year-old woman who was a “patient” of the Black Madam had the lungs of an 80-year-old because the deadly silicon concoction spread into her lungs. Dr. Paris Butler, MD, MPH, assistant professor in the Division of Plastic Surgery within the Hospitals at the University of Pennsylvania, was puzzled by his patient’s casual revelation that her condition stemmed from participating in a pumping party.

This patient’s chilling story inspired Dr. Butler to spurn a healthy dialogue about safe and legal plastic surgery among Black women. In Philadelphia, the Black Madam’s pumping party goers paid between $1,500-$2,000 twice a year to have an illegal and deadly mixture of silicone and cement injected into various areas of their body. Most would assume affordability forces people to get these procedures done in a hotel room or, in some cases, a back alley.

According to the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, plastic surgery is a $13.5 billion industry with 7.7% of all cosmetic surgeries being consumed by Black patients. The physician fee for a butt lift, for example, averages $4,910.

Read the rest of the article here.