14 DAY TRIAL // Some women will do (or have done already) the stupidest things in the name of beauty, in their hope of attaining physical “perfection,” perhaps unaware that such a thing exists only in their mind. Former Las Vegas entertainer Renee Talley, 45, is one of these women and, today, she’s learning to live with the consequences of her choices.
The name Talley might not ring a bell, but you probably recall a viral video from 2012 that emerged on YouTube, showing a woman completely flipping her backside implants on camera, until her buttocks had this weird, very unnatural shape.
This was Talley’s claim to international fame and, though she did post the video online because she wanted to show how backside implants could go wrong, she says she never expected to become such a huge star.
Talley and her botched implants were included in the latest episode of E!’s new reality series, Botched, in which she explains how she came to have the implants that got her international media attention in 2012.
Video is available at the link above.
The 45-year-old woman explains that, thinking she could benefit from a rounder, bigger backside, she got silicone injections. The intervention didn’t have the results she was hoping for because, within 6 months of it, she had started to feel sick.
“I was having a lot of fatigue, I had a lot of pain and sensitivity in my [backside]. I was having stomach issues and bathroom problems and it progressively got worse,” she says on the show. She eventually went to a doctor, who gave her an MRI and established that the silicone had migrated towards her back and into her legs, fixing itself to organs and giving her an autoimmune disease.
The only option was, of course, to have it all removed, but Talley admits that she was afraid she might be left with “some deformity” where the doctor removed tissue along with the silicone. So, in a move that she’s probably come to regret, she told him to put implants in, to fill in the space left in her backside by the silicone.
She should have waited at least another half year for that, but she decided she “couldn’t.” Before she got help for the botched implants on Botched, she could practically put her fingers under them and flip them under the skin. Video of it is available on YouTube, but it’s not the kind of thing you want to willingly submit yourself to.
“This whole procedure has affected my life in so many different ways. I don't really look in the mirror at myself anymore because I'm not happy with the way my [backside] looks,” Talley says. “It's something I did to myself so I'm going to have to learn to live with it. I'm probably never going to be able to fix the imperfection. If you ruin it, you can't go back and fix it.”
You can say that again.