May 2013 – My quest for the perfect bottom left me with NO LIMBS’: Mother’s botched black market injections led to quadruple amputation – By Martha DeLacey
A mother-of-two whose quest for the perfect bottom led to a quadruple limb and buttock amputation has warned other women against black market silicone injections.
Hair stylist Apryl Michelle Brown, from LA, spent five years in excruciating pain when an unlicensed practitioner injected her buttocks with bathroom sealant, telling her it was silicone, in order to enhance them.
Doctors had no idea how to treat the botched implants and told her she might have to live with the agony, but when they finally operated the injections became so badly infected she was induced into a coma. Read more…
May 2013 – LA WOMAN GETS BUTT INJECTIONS WITH BATHROOM SEALANT; ENDS UP HAVING TO AMPUTATE ARMS, LEGS AND BUTTOCKS
While many people might ask, “Why would anyone in their right mind do something as dangerous as getting butt injections??” there are many women out here who are putting their lives at risk for a more plump posterior everyday. Just ask Apryl Michelle Brown.
The mother of two used to get teased as a young woman because she had a flatter backside compared to her friends and counterparts, and according to the Daily Mail, she says that she developed many insecurities about herself and her butt. Read more…
I lost my arms and feet after bum boost injections – By Sarah Arnold
A MUM of two told last night how her quest for a bigger bottom left her a quadruple amputee – and 24 hours from death.Apryl Michelle Brown had black-market silicone injections which turned out to be BATHROOM SEALANT.
It left her in agony and led to her losing her hands and feet, as well as her buttocks.The 46-year-old former hairdresser blames “vanity” and wants to warn others of the terrible dangers of such illegal treatments.
Apryl said: “I’ve paid a terrible price for vanity and I’ll pay for the rest of my life. But I blame no one but myself. “I want to share my story to warn others about these so-called ‘quick fix’ surgeries. Read more…
Essence Magazine – November 2012
EXCLUSIVE PHOTO: Illegal Butt Injections Gone Bad – By Amy Elisa Keith

Teased by her family and friends about her flat “pancake” booty, Apryl Michelle Brown had always been insecure about her backside. Once she got enough money, she told herself, she’d buy herself a better one. “I didn’t know if I wanted to look like Janet Jackson or J. Lo,” the Los Angeles cosmetologist, 46, says in an exclusive interview featured in the November issue of ESSENCE magazine. “I just wanted a new, bigger booty.”
Tragically, her quest for curves cost her all her limbs and almost her life.
Other places to find articles about Apryl:
Cosmetic Surgery Malpractice, Woman Lost Her Hands, Legs and Buttocks
This Woman Lost All Four Limbs Because Of Shady “Butt Injections”
Illegal Butt Injections Leaves Woman Limbless
Lawndale woman copes with loss of hands, feet following silicone injections