Apryl Brown wants to warn women tempted of giving “pumping parties” a try

May 14, 2012 17:41 GMT  ·  By
Apryl Brown had all her limps amputated after she was injected with industrial grade silicone at “pumping party”
   Apryl Brown had all her limps amputated after she was injected with industrial grade silicone at “pumping party”

“Pumping parties” are becoming more popular these days, despite the many warnings issued by professionals. If their words are not enough, Apryl Brown is willing to show the world what the effects of getting a back-alley procedure are.

These parties are meetings in hotel room or apartments, where women desperate to alter their appearance but not willing to pay the thousands of dollars needed to contract a licensed surgeon, allow fake doctors to inject them with unknown substances.

They're told they're fillers or silicone but they can even contain cement or tire sealant that can leave them disfigured for life (in the “best” case scenario), or maim or even kill them (in the worst).

Apryl Brown sure knows how badly these things can go, having experienced it all on her own 8 years ago, when she decided to get her derrière done.

Instead of going to a licensed surgeon, she went to one of those pumping parties, she explains in an interview with NBC4.

Five years later, after several hospitalizations and living in terrible pain 24/7, she had to accept the harsh reality: she could either live as a multiple amputee for the rest of her life, or die a very painful death.

“I got the [backside] implants eight years ago. For five years, I lived in pain. Excruciating pain,” the mother of two, who once worked as a fashion designer and cosmetologist says.

“They call it [backside] injections. These things are done at pumping parties. They call it medical grade silicone but a lot of it is industrial grade silicone,” she explains.

Apryl doesn't want to name the practitioner who did this to her, who maimed her for life, because she believes she's partly responsible as well: she had low self-esteem and she put herself at risk by taking this decision.

Last year, after spending a lot of time in hospitals fighting infections, Apryl's limbs were amputated. She's now thinking of starting a new career as a motivational speaker, and uses her own example to show women all over the world what can – and will – happen if you choose the shortcut instead of the right road.

She believes her family and friends literally saved her life.

“We don't validate each other. We really don't know how our friends feel about us, unless we have very expressive friends,” she says of her support circle.