- Social networks are giving rise to new trends that encourage cosmetic surgery operations.
- Among them, “Zombie filler”, a practice banned in France.
- It consists of injecting human corpse fat, as Sandra Marconi explains to us on LCI.
Influencers, social networks, search for the “ideal” physique. New trends sometimes encourage the use of cosmetic surgery to get closer to beauty standards. Although certain operations are prohibited in France, they can still be very popular, particularly in the United States.
Among them, the “Zombie filler”. It’s all in the name. “The concept is to inject the patient with human cadaver fat. It’s a real fashion in terms of cosmetic surgery. We offer fat from a dead donor, purchased, treated and purified”
describes Sandra Marconi, LCI journalist. It is done very legally in the United States and is used for breast augmentations or
BBL, operations to make your buttocks bigger
.”
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But wasn’t there a way to find fat elsewhere? Surgeons use this fat taken from deceased organ and tissue donors “for patients who are very thin and do not have enough”
says the journalist.
Dr Haideh Hirmand, plastic surgeon in New York, confided in the columns of The Guardian
that she thought that this practice “was going to put everyone off”
. More “finally, it doesn’t bother too much”
.
More information in the video at the top of this article.
