American singer and Real Housewives of Atlanta star, K. Michelle, has opened up after getting a black market Brazilian butt lift that landed her in the hospital.
Back in 2012, the 44-year-old had ‘illegal silicone injections’ and has spent almost a decade undergoing various surgeries to remove the silicone and regain her health.
Michelle, who is currently starring on The Real Housewives of Atlanta, recently had another reconstructive surgery to remove infected tissue from her buttocks, which was caused by one of her prior corrective procedures.
Discussing the ordeal, the singer admitted that her buttocks started leaking shortly before her performance at the 2024 Academy of Country Music Awards.
‘I was standing there in a bathrobe. Everyone was blow-drying me down, just to get me on stage to sing,’ she said.
Overcome with emotion, Michelle broke down in tears, expressing deep regret over her decision to undergo the cosmetic procedure.
‘I just hate that I did this to myself. It’s the worst thing I ever did to myself, and I’ve paid for it for years,’ she cried.
Michelle also explained that her health challenges have been caused specifically by the silicone in her body, which spread down to her legs several years after the initial 2012 procedure.
‘The actual thing that has made me sick isn’t the BBL. It’s the injections I got involving silicone,’ she said.
‘The hardest thing for me was learning that no matter what I do and how many surgeries, I will never get that silicone out of my body. It will be forever in me.’
She added, ‘I will never be fully healed.’
After getting silicone injected into her buttocks in 2012, Michelle then had fat transferred from her stomach to her rear and her hips, in addition to a breast augmentation and rhinoplasty.
‘I wanted to look like a Coke bottle,’ she previously confessed to People magazine.
Michelle admitted that she had the surgery done ‘by a man in Atlanta’ after hearing that her ‘favorite rapper’ had previously used his services.
‘He wasn’t a doctor. It was black market, it was these “hydrogel” injections – that’s what they were being called,’ she said.
Michelle has spent the last decade undergoing multiple surgeries to try and fix the damage that’s been done to her body.
At one point, she became so ill that she needed two blood transfusions.
‘It’s the scariest thing in life, and I’m a tough girl. I had these lumps, and I was very disfigured,’ she said previously.
