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29 Aug 04 - 01:01 AM (#1259300) Subject: BS: Big bums are back...... From: Shanghaiceltic Well I hope this applies to men too... or do we have to still go for liposuction? British women cast aside the skinny look in quest for a superior posterior By Jacqui Goddard in Miami and Nicola Davidson (Filed: 29/08/2004) For years, men have known to bite their lips dutifully and shake their heads convincingly when asked the classic question: "Does my bum look big in this?" They need lie no more. The answer women now want to hear, it seems, is "Yes". Buttock augmentation surgery has soared in popularity, as women seek to plump up their rumps and prove that bigger is better. Plastic surgeons attribute the trend partly to the popularity of ample-reared, "bootylicious" pop divas such as Jennifer Lopez and Beyonce Knowles. "It seems to be this year's 'it' surgery and Jennifer Lopez is the poster-girl," said Dr Leroy Young, director of the American Society for Plastic Surgery's Emerging Trends Taskforce, which has recorded a five-fold increase in buttock augmentation operations in the past 12 months. The trend has also reached Britain, with a substantial rise in patients anxious to have the surgery. Adrian Richards, a consultant plastic and cosmetic surgeon practising in Harley Street, said that four or five years ago he was never asked to perform the surgery but now increasing numbers of women sought augmentation. "The reason for the change is that our perception of the ideal body shape is changing," he said. "Patients want a rounder and fuller posterior. Ten years ago it was fashionable to look slim, be small busted and have no bottom, the body ideal now is more rounded and voluptuous." Dr Young in America agreed. He said: "People like to emulate celebrities and women like that well-endowed look. Clothes these days are cut to show the figure very anatomically and they just don't look right if you don't fill them out. Buttock augmentation has moved from being a fringe procedure into the mainstream, it's reached a tipping point." Nearly 4,000 Americans underwent underwent buttock augmentation last year, compared with 614 two years ago. The procedure involves implanting bags of silicone, or quantities of fat removed from elsewhere in the body, into the buttocks to make them more pronounced. About 90 per cent were female, some of them 50-year-olds on a mission to turn back time and others as young as 21 and anxious to reach more "bootylicious" proportions. The implants used are the same as those used for breast implants. State-of-the art buttock implants are made with soft silicone. Recently, there has been an an increase in the use of saline implants, which are made from salt water. These, however, are harder and firmer than natural bodyflesh and can be uncomfortable. The method of inserting and positioning the implant depends on patient preferences, anatomy and the surgeon's recommendation. The implants are placed into each buttock area through a single incision overlying the tailbone. The buttock muscle (gluteus maximus) is lifted up and a pocket is made just large enough for the implant. Having one's gluteus maximised does not come cheap. Costs typically range between £3,800 to £5,500, similar to a facelift or breast enlargement. Nor is it the most comfortable of cosmetic procedures; patients are warned that they probably won't be able to sit down for around 10 days after surgery. Suzanna Drake, 34, from Stanmore, London, had the procedure last year after reading about it on a holiday in America. She never felt comfortable with her bottom and was surprised at how many plastic and cosmetic surgeons in Britain performed the surgery. Ms Drake is delighted with the results. "I never used to walk around the beach, I would dread the summer. I had no bottom and I felt so unfeminine. Now I can wear jeans and my confidence has soared." Lynne, a 40-year-old American who had the surgery last year, agreed: "My butt has always just been really flat and oh my goodness, the difference now is unbelievable. It's the shape, the contouring, the slope. It's cut years off my age - I look like I have an 18-year-old's butt. It's firm, it's tight, it looks good." Surgeons say that the trend for buttock augmentation has been stimulated by television programmes that revolve around cosmetic surgery, such as the drama Nip/Tuck and Fox television's The Swan, in which 17 "ugly ducklings" are given three months to get themselves to beauty queen level assisted by a small army of plastic surgeons. |
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29 Aug 04 - 01:35 AM (#1259317) Subject: RE: BS: Big bums are back...... From: Sorcha Oh good grief. Will 'fannies' be next? Enhanced 'lips'? etc....NOT me. I'm happy just the way I am...boobs, bums, fanny and all. Been under the knife enuf the way it is. |
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29 Aug 04 - 02:47 AM (#1259331) Subject: RE: BS: Big bums are back...... From: katlaughing Well at least it's a move away from the Twiggies and Calistas extreme toothpick images! |
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29 Aug 04 - 03:28 AM (#1259337) Subject: RE: BS: Big bums are back...... From: rich-joy Last night on Oz telly, there was an episode on "Sunshine" in a programme that does some very amusing looking back at "The Way We Were" in Australia. I was slightly surprised at the 1960s and 70s beach scenes - which included both bikini'd young women and "free beach" nudity - coz they mainly looked quite solid (NOT fat though!) - AND healthy with it!! The same scene on our beaches in our post-"Heroin-Chic" times, would be full of far more slender (many almost anorexic) bodies held up as The Norm!! I'd almost forgotten that, not so very long ago, it used to be QUITE preferable, NOT to be dead-skinny!!! Bring It On Again!! Cheers! R-J |
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29 Aug 04 - 03:33 AM (#1259338) Subject: RE: BS: Big bums are back...... From: Amergin I like girls with meat on their bones... |
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29 Aug 04 - 03:59 AM (#1259341) Subject: RE: BS: Big bums are back...... From: John MacKenzie I too saw this article in my on-line Telegraph, I found it amusing, and wonder if Arabella Weir has read it. Myself [as if you cared] I like my women petite, and slim, but then when I look in the mirror at my brewers goitre, I think, "who are you to ask a woman to be slim, you fat bastard?" Giok |
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29 Aug 04 - 04:21 AM (#1259347) Subject: RE: BS: Big bums are back...... From: Strollin' Johnny Giok, we must be brothers! (ROFL!!) SJ :0) |
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29 Aug 04 - 05:06 AM (#1259357) Subject: RE: BS: Big bums are back...... From: fat B****rd You called, Giok ???? |
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29 Aug 04 - 07:05 AM (#1259389) Subject: RE: BS: Big bums are back...... From: jacqui.c Well, all I can say is it's nice to be back in fashion! |
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29 Aug 04 - 07:07 AM (#1259391) Subject: RE: BS: Big bums are back...... From: McGrath of Harlow The answer women now want to hear, it seems, is "Yes". I don't advise trying this at home. Or elsewhere. (Even when it is fortunately true. Especially when it is fortunately true.) |
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29 Aug 04 - 08:55 AM (#1259421) Subject: RE: BS: Big bums are back...... From: wysiwyg Big bums never went out of style in the black community. "The bigger the cushion the better the pushin'." "My baby got 'back'." ~S~ |
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29 Aug 04 - 09:25 AM (#1259430) Subject: RE: BS: Big bums are back...... From: Bee-dubya-ell Big bums never went out of style down here in Bubbaland either. It seems to be part of the marriage contract. "Okay, honey, you're married now. You don't have to be cute anymore. You can let your ass grow." Wide butts are a primary factor in the rate at which WalMart seems to be building their Super WalMart stores in the southeast. It's not that they really need more room to display merchandise. They need more room to provide wider lanes so more than one collard-fed ass at a time can walk down the cereal aisle. |
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29 Aug 04 - 09:39 AM (#1259435) Subject: RE: BS: Big bums are back...... From: McGrath of Harlow "Child-bearing hips" don't look too good on men though... |
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29 Aug 04 - 09:52 AM (#1259441) Subject: RE: BS: Big bums are back...... From: Bill D save money |
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29 Aug 04 - 10:52 AM (#1259473) Subject: RE: BS: Big bums are back...... From: Rapparee Heck, I thought this was about politics. Close enough. |
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29 Aug 04 - 11:09 AM (#1259480) Subject: RE: BS: Big bums are back...... From: CarolC LOL, Bill D. I bet they're constantly riding up, making weird "panty lines" halfway up the butt cheek. |
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29 Aug 04 - 04:58 PM (#1259540) Subject: RE: BS: Big bums are back...... From: Megan L Drat i never kent i wis oot o fashion |
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29 Aug 04 - 06:04 PM (#1259553) Subject: RE: BS: Big bums are back...... From: Little Hawk Ask me if I care. :-) You say they're back? They never left this town! |
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29 Aug 04 - 06:50 PM (#1259564) Subject: RE: BS: Big bums are back...... From: LilyFestre I have a favorite t-shirt that reads: If this were the 1800's, I'd be a goddess! *smirk* Michelle |
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29 Aug 04 - 07:10 PM (#1259571) Subject: RE: BS: Big bums are back...... From: jimmyt I thought this was about the "Dream Team" American basketball players returning to America. |
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29 Aug 04 - 07:28 PM (#1259581) Subject: RE: BS: Big bums are back...... From: Cluin Here's to "Bovine Betty and her unpretentious country-wide ass"*. * line stolen from Comedian Ron James |
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30 Aug 04 - 05:29 AM (#1259696) Subject: RE: BS: Big bums are back...... From: John MacKenzie Does this mean that tunes which go Bum Titty Bum Titty Bum will now be bigger songs, and we will have to add another Bum at the end. Or will it be Prosthesis Silicon, Prosthesis Silicon, Prosthesis from now on? Giok |
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30 Aug 04 - 12:44 PM (#1259919) Subject: RE: BS: Big bums are back...... From: Herga Kitty Surely "big bums are back" is a tautology? (When were they front?) Kitty |
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30 Aug 04 - 08:11 PM (#1260224) Subject: RE: BS: Big bums are back...... From: michaelr So glad to hear it. I never cared for big breasts, but I've always liked round butts. "I'm gonna see you get the Golden Globe Award For those golden globes of yours; they're so fine" Anyone know that song? Cheers, Michael |
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31 Aug 04 - 04:07 AM (#1260475) Subject: RE: BS: Big bums are back...... From: GUEST,Giok I believe a certain gentleman in San Diego with a biblical handle may know those words. I like tits size doesn't matter! Giok |
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31 Aug 04 - 11:29 PM (#1261289) Subject: RE: BS: Big bums are back...... From: Paul from Hull Well, hooray! *G* |
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01 Sep 04 - 06:39 AM (#1261461) Subject: RE: BS: Big bums are back...... From: Liz the Squeak So, annonymous Guest of offensive thread fame - I have a fat arse and I'm FASHIONABLE!!! SO thsssssssssssssssssssssssppppst!!!! LTS |
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01 Sep 04 - 07:49 AM (#1261507) Subject: RE: BS: Big bums are back...... From: GUEST I think big bums look strange on women with no hips. |
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01 Sep 04 - 08:51 AM (#1261538) Subject: RE: BS: Big bums are back...... From: Bill D The "Golden Globes" song is by John Hartford....I have a tape of it somewhere. It goes with his other opus, "Have Mercy On My Poor Old Prurient Interest" |
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01 Sep 04 - 11:02 AM (#1261647) Subject: RE: BS: Big bums are back...... From: Kim C There's this thing called exercise, when properly done, that will give a person a nice rounded backside. Cheaper than surgery, too. |
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01 Sep 04 - 05:31 PM (#1261972) Subject: RE: BS: Big bums are back...... From: lady penelope Guest, if a woman has no hips, from what does her butt hang from? Yours (no, actually I take that back) Puzzled of Walthamstow Lady P. |
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02 Sep 04 - 01:25 AM (#1262253) Subject: RE: BS: Big bums are back...... From: Shanghaiceltic Larger ladies are NOT fat, they are Rubenesque. |
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02 Sep 04 - 04:18 AM (#1262305) Subject: RE: BS: Big bums are back...... From: Liz the Squeak "I like that Boticelli bloke, he painted fat birds" - heard in the National Gallery! LTS |
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02 Sep 04 - 10:02 AM (#1262498) Subject: RE: BS: Big bums are back...... From: The DeanMeister Fat bottomed girls, they make the rockin' world go round....! |
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02 Sep 04 - 10:11 AM (#1262506) Subject: RE: BS: Big bums are back...... From: Bill D collect 'em all |
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02 Sep 04 - 12:42 PM (#1262672) Subject: RE: BS: Big bums are back...... From: Steve-o Woo-hooo....callipygian!! |
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03 Sep 04 - 11:30 AM (#1263494) Subject: RE: BS: Big bums are back...... From: Dave Bryant Linda's bum has never been away - well except for her recent holiday in Spain. Mind you in bed at night it's usually in front of me - I like it there. |
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15 Oct 04 - 01:28 PM (#1298004) Subject: RE: BS: Big bums are back...... From: GUEST I'd love to have a big bum,i think they are great and it would make me feel completly feminine. |
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15 Oct 04 - 04:49 PM (#1298138) Subject: RE: BS: Big bums are back...... From: Tannywheeler 'Course the airlines don't believe in "Rubenesque". Nor theatre-seat designers. LilyF, where can one get one of those t-shirts? one who is Largely "Rubenesque", Tw |
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15 Oct 04 - 05:28 PM (#1298166) Subject: RE: BS: Big bums are back...... From: Peace Thought there was gonna be a fourth debate. Sorry. |
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15 Oct 04 - 06:08 PM (#1298191) Subject: RE: BS: Big bums are back...... From: Bernard A woman wanted a boob enhancement job, but her husband wasn't prepared to pay for it. "Rub them with toilet tissue" he said. "It worked on your bum..." |
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15 Oct 04 - 07:01 PM (#1298227) Subject: RE: BS: Big bums are back...... From: Liz the Squeak I agree about those people who make seats for planes and buses... they may be able to get more seats in the bus, but how many people can actually sit in the seats without a) overflowing it and b) getting a cheap thrill from the edge?! LTS |
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15 Oct 04 - 07:05 PM (#1298231) Subject: RE: BS: Big bums are back...... From: Peace It's a thrill, but it ain't cheap! |