New York Plastic Surgeon is catching heat for using fat from dead bodies for BBLs.
Just when you thought BBL culture could not get any wilder, the internet said, “Hold my lip gloss.” A New York plastic surgeon is getting absolutely dragged online after reports claimed she is using fat taken from dead bodies for Brazilian Butt Lifts. Yes, dead bodies.
Social media wasted no time. Twitter turned into a crime scene. Instagram detectives clocked in early and TikTok doctors suddenly had ten years of medical experience. Everyone had jokes, everyone had questions, and everyone agreed on one thing, this was not the glow-up anyone asked for.
Across the country, a growing number of patients are turning to injectable fillers made from the dearly departed’s donated fat in order to lift, plump and sculpt their bodies — including for hot-ticket procedures like Brazilian butt lifts (BBL) and breast enhancements.
“Many of us in New York City are very excited about this, particularly because our patients are sometimes very thin or maybe have already had liposuction,” Dr. Melissa Doft, a board-certified plastic surgeon in Manhattan, said in an Instagram video.
For procedures like BBL, fat is usually extracted from the patient via liposuction and then reinjected into the desired area — so for those who don’t have enough to suck out, Doft said, “It’s off-the-shelf-fat.”
The filler, called AlloClae, hit the US market last year — but it still isn’t widely available.
“I’d say less than probably 5% of board certified plastic surgeons have it,” Dr. Sachin M. Shridharani, who began offering the procedure at his Manhattan clinic, Luxurgery, in early 2025 as part of a small clinical trial measuring its outcomes in fixing “hip dips,” told The Post.
“With the ones that do have it across the country, there’s tremendous amount of demand,” he added, noting he’s done more than 50 procedures in the past year. “There have been multiple times that we’ve actually run out of product.”
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AlloClae is made from sterile fat harvested from cadavers and can be administered through minimally invasive, in-office injections by a qualified provider, without the need for general anesthesia.
Before it’s injected, the donor fat undergoes a multi-step cleansing, sterilization and purification process that removes cellular debris, DNA and other elements that could trigger a negative immune response in the body.
“We ensure all our tissue is consented to for aesthetic use,” Caro Van Hove, president of Tiger Aesthetics, the company behind AlloClae, said in an interview with The Cut, meaning the people giving their bodies didn’t think they were donating them to medical or scientific discovery.
“The donor material is meticulously screened in accordance with regulated and high-quality tissue practices,” Van Hove added.
“It actually helps the patient’s own collagen to grow in as well,” Dr. Stephen T. Greenberg, a New York plastic surgeon, said in a YouTube video while performing the procedure.
“This is great for somebody who doesn’t want to use their own fat or doesn’t have enough of their own fat in order to do a Brazilian butt lift or a buttock augmentation,” he continued.
Shridharani said the procedures typically start at $10,000, with costs increase depending on the scope of treatment.
“If you want a full breast augmentation, hip dip and some buttock treatment and you have to use hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of cc’s of AlloClae, well, that’s going to cost tens of thousands of dollars,” he said.
In the end, this story is a reminder. Do your research, ask questions and read reviews. And then maybe ask where the fat is coming from, because in 2026, apparently, you really have to ask.
Stay snatched, but stay alive and make sure everyone involved is too.
