A Miami-based model has written a book to warn women about the dangers of butt implants and what can happen after she experienced it firsthand after several rounds of illegal butt injections.
It was once 13 years ago that she decided to increase her backside to about 60 inches.
Courtney Barnes, 35, got the illegal injections at a party in 2006 when she was just 22, according to the Daily Mail.
Since that time, Barnes, known as “Ms. Miami,” has become an Instagram star with nearly a million followers, but is now recounting her perils with butt implants as a cautionary tale.
Barnes was shocked when Dr. Terry Dubrow told her in order to fix her backside he would have to amputate.
Stunned, she responds: “Amputate the whole booty? I’m not doing that. No, I’m not doing that. I’m not amputating butts.”
The injections have now caused Barnes’ butt to be discolored and to sag, which has prompted taunts and mean-spirited comments from many of her IG followers.
Barnes, who suffered from body dysmorphic disorder (BDD), is now trying to get the filler removed.
She said she wrote her memoir, I Am Not My Body, But I Wanted a Bigger Butt, to keep young women from experiencing what she has gone through.
Barnes then revealed the reason she got the injections in the first place.
“When I was in college I got a job dancing at a club,” she said, adding, “The first night, after really not making no money on the stage, there was a