More and more Irish women going in search of Kim and J-Lo style curves!
Full Frontal, presented by Angela Scanlon, explores how the cosmetic procedure is being carried out in this country thanks to the vogue for super-sized rears sported by stars such as Beyonce and Nicki Minaj.
Lopez was the original poster girl for the fuller figure, but the posterior of Kardashian has become its own source of fascination.
Buttock augmentation surgery has been popular for years in places such as Miami and Brazil.
Dr Ahmed Salman, from Auralia Cosmetic Enhancement in Dublin, told the RTÉ documentary that Irish women are looking for gluteal implants or a buttock augmentation to achieve the perfect posterior.
“The whole objective is to give [women] the inverted heart shape bum. You have to have a desire and want a bigger bum, and secondly you have to be suitable for surgery and your expected results have to be realistic.”
He said most patients tend to get some liposuction along with the implants during the butt augmentation procedure. “It is all to enhance the inverted heart-shaped bum. You always augment a butt augmentation with a tiny bit of liposuction.”
He said one of the most popular procedures for Irish men is the correction of the condition commonly known as “man boobs”. Dr Salman said: “It is quite common. More and more people are aware there are surgical corrections for it.”
The programme also examines the rising number of women opting to have breast enlargement procedures. “There are three main reasons for women to get breast augmentation. One is ‘I have none’. They say ‘I feel like a boy, can we do something about it’,” Dr Salman said.
“That is one group of people. The other group of people said, ‘Look I had great breasts but I had three children and I breast-fed a couple of them. I have done my bit for the family can I do something for myself?’
“Then you get the other people who are just not happy with their breasts for one reason or another. They are a little bit droopy. They want more fullness, their clothes don’t sit properly, it is disproportionate to them.”
Cork woman Edelle Notte told the documentary how having surgery on her breasts helped give her the confidence to become a glamour model.
She said: “It was kind of something I naturally progressed into. After the [operation] I threw myself into modelling because I became more confident in myself and started doing bikini modelling and represented Cork in the Miss Bikini Ireland final and did some lingerie modelling and went from there.
“Being confident in yourself is very important. I know people automatically think if you get your boobs done you’re incredibly vain. It is just not the case. It is such a new thing in Ireland getting surgery but in England and America it is like getting a tooth pulled.”
Angela Scanlon said making the documentary had failed to persuade her of the merits of cosmetic surgery. “It’s never been so easy to fake your appearance and it would be naive to believe that it is not going to become even easier in the future.
“I can live with fake lashes, I love a fake nail and I can live with fake hair but if it means going under the knife I think I would prefer to live with a deficient arse,” she joked.
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