by JEREMY LAURANCE
Under the skin of a fatal attraction to buttock enhancement surgery
British women were always more interested in their bust than their bottom until Latino curves, as seen on Jennifer Lopez and the supermodel Gisele Bundchen, burst on to the scene in the 1990s.
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This week the trend claimed its first British victim when Claudia Aderotimi, a 20-year-old Londoner, flew to Philadelphia for a cut-rate bottom enhancement in a hotel near the airport.
On Sunday she had a silicone injection into her buttocks as a top-up to a procedure carried out last November. The treatment was arranged over the internet and carried out by a practitioner believed to be unqualified. Ms Aderotimi paid a reported $2,000 (£1,200).
On Monday she developed chest pains and was taken to hospital where she died on Tuesday from a suspected pulmonary embolism – a blood clot in the lung possibly caused by the silicone entering her bloodstream.
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Dr Toledo said the Brazilian fascination with the female behind dated from colonial times. “In the days of slavery, the Africans brought to Brazil came from a region where they had very small waists and big bottoms. The Portuguese colonisers were completely crazy about them and many had children with them – 30 per cent of Brazilians are mixed race.”
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