WITH endless celebs getting plastic surgery, weight loss injections trending on social media and hairdressers now offering tweakments, it’s little wonder that many women struggle with body image.
Having gone under the knife to get the ‘perfect body’, Ava Louise says she regrets spending $15,000 on a Brazilian Butt Lift and even claims it ‘ruined her life’.
Like many girls in the noughties, the 25-year-old had grown up following influencers on Instagram.
Rather than simply trying to emulate the ‘IT’ girls’ style though, the content creator desperately wanted to get the Kardashians‘ curves – by any means possible.
“I was a teenager in the 2010s when Instagram was new and the ‘It’ girls were Instagram models,” she recalled, adding: “All these girls started getting BBLS.”
Thinking back to her younger self, she said: “I saw Kylie Jenner do it and I was like, I need to do that, and I grew up watching Kim Kardashian‘s butt triple in size every year.”
The young woman became obsessed with the trend and began saving for the surgery over the next decade, as she felt insecure about her body.
She even hoped the procedure would her help win back an ex who she claims told her she ‘needed’ the surgery.
At the end of 2021, having saved $15,000 (£10k), she finally decided to go under the knife and almost instantly regretted it.
In the weeks and months after the op, she rapidly began to gain weight, 30 pounds in total, which took her almost a year to lose.
Clothing also became an issue as Ava struggled to fit into her enhanced frame and says she looked like a ‘cow’ if she covered up.
“Everything that has happened to me has been so embarrassing. I can’t even wear jeans anymore,” she explained on Tiktok, adding: “I had to order XL jeans to even get them over my cheeks but then they’d be massive in the waist. I only fit in leggings.
“I had to dress with no sense of style because the only thing that fit me was stretchy leggings.”
The plastic surgery also impacted how people treated her, with the influencer revealing that she felt unsafe around men – just because of how she looked.
Taking to Tiktok, she told her followers: “My life after my BBL was awful, I got sexualized everywhere I went. I never really felt safe. I could not wear normal regular clothes because if I wore sweats, I would look fat, so I constantly had to wear skintight revealing clothing to look smaller.”
Heartbreakingly, her plastic surgery even affected how other women treated her.
She added: “I got no respect when I would try and shop in nice stores. People stopped calling me pretty. No one noticed anything about me besides my butt.
“The surgery also didn’t fix any of my insecurities and left me permanently mentally scarred.”
At her lowest, the influencer even became stuck in a seat on a flight and had to ask another passenger for help.
“I was forced to fly economy after booking higher in order to make it home and my butt did get stuck in a seat. I had to have the passenger next to me help pull me out once we landed,” the content creator explained.
She added: “I thought they were going to have to call the fire department to cut me out of my seat it was so mortifying.”
Now, the 25-year-old is warning over about the dangers of getting trendy surgery.
She said: “My life was fine before my BBL, I was just very insecure about myself, so I never really felt good enough and thought any problems I faced in life had to do with my body when in reality that was not the case.
“If you think you need plastic surgery, you definetly don’t. You don’t need to get that lip filler, a new butt or new boobs.”
