With a BBL will I see a big difference in my waist? I feel like Spongebob! (Photo)

A Brazilian Butt Lift (BBL) can help create a more defined waistline by removing fat from areas like your abdomen, flanks, and back, which can improve the contour of your midsection. This liposuction process not only slims down the waist but also enhances the buttocks and hips, giving you a more hourglass figure. Since you mention carrying weight in your middle, the procedure could effectively address the fat distribution and create more balanced proportions.
While a BBL can help improve the waist and hip area, it may not drastically reduce your waistline on its own, especially if there’s excess skin or laxity. If you're aiming for a more dramatic transformation, combining the BBL with an abdominoplasty (tummy tuck) may be necessary to address any skin laxity and achieve the desired waist definition. A consultation with an experienced plastic surgeon will give you a personalized plan based on your specific body and goals.
Krishna Vyas, MD, PhD, MHSHarvard, Hopkins, & Mayo Clinic Trained Aesthetic Plastic SurgeonNew York, New York

Dear Plucky644627,
based on your photos, you look like a good candidate for a BBL. Liposuction of your abdomen, back and flanks should give you more curves and hourglass shape and fat transfer to buttocks should give you more projection. I would suggest you to consult a board-certified plastic surgeon because only after a thorough examination you will get more information and recommendations.
Daniel Barrett, MDCertified, American Board of Plastic SurgeryMember, American Society of Plastic SurgeryMember, American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery

A BBL should be a nice procedure for you. It will reduce fullness throughout your torso and help volumize your buttock.

There is no doubt that you can expect improvement in the hands of a board certified plastic surgeon with experience in BBL (very important in your case). However, do not expect much change in the waist but moderate improvement in the hips and buttocks. Good luck.

Thank you for posting your question here,I will start by stating that my answer is based on the limited information and pictures provided, for more detailed and bespoke plan please consult with your plastic surgeon in person.
from the images it looks that you are lacking volume in the buttock region , a BBL will likely help with that but in order to get enough fat for a meaningful BBL your surgeon will likely perform liposuction to harvest fat from both your belly and back . This will likely lead to skin laxity in the abdomen , and from the looks of the skin of your abdomen (you have some laxity already and stretch marks), it will unlikely contract enough to give you an aesthetic result even if your surgeon uses an energy device.
So that being said for an optimal result you might need to couple the BBL with an abdominoplasty potentially even an extended one . Again my answer is limited by the limited data , I would recommend that you consult with a plastic surgeon in person.
I hope this helps, Best of luck!

Hi dear. You're not unrealistic in your expectation. The BBL is a viable option to help you regain some of that curve in your waist and buttocks. And we also recommend combining BBL with liposuction in the abdomen area, flanks and lower back can help you reduce that fat and improve the definition of your waist. You can write to us at 829-554-6062 to give you all the recommendations for your surgery.

Hi! Thanks for your question. A Brazilian Butt Lift (BBL) can indeed help create a more defined waistline by removing fat from areas like your abdomen or flanks and transferring it to your hips and buttocks. This can give you a more hourglass shape, especially if you're looking to address the "skinny fat" distribution around your midsection. However, remember that results depend on your body type, skin elasticity, and recovery. A consultation with a qualified surgeon can provide a more personalized assessment based on your goals and current physique.

BBL stands for Brazilian butt lift.
It is primarily a gluteal augmentation procedure.
In order to fat transfer liposuction is required and most commonly fat is harvested from the torso.
Fat can be harvested from any area so BBL by itself does not mean that you’re going to have abdominal liposuction.
It is often the case, though.
What you are really asking for your candidacy for Liposuction not for BBL?
Let’s start with the front of your abdomen, then work our way towards your waist.
The two are sometimes somewhat related.
In regards to the front of your abdomen there are four tissue variables that determine what it looks like.
Two of these are pregnancy related.
Those are abdominal skin laxity and abdominal muscle separation.
Skin laxity is often perceived as being fat.
If you grab a bunch of loose skin, the fat feels much thicker than it actually is.
To determine how thick your subcutaneous fat layer is pull your skin tight first.
That gives you a much more accurate assessment regarding how thick your subcutaneous fat layer is.
The other two variables are the thickness of subcutaneous, fat and potential visceral fat.
From your pictures, you have classic pregnancy related changes, which is primarily skin laxity and muscle separation.
The correct treatment for this is a full tummy tuck not liposuction.
Pregnancies do not change your fat distribution.
Pregnancies only change skill, laxity, and muscle separation.
Skin Laxity is the number one reason patient failed to be good candidates for Liposuction.
That doesn’t mean you can’t have Liposuction. It just means it’s not going to give you the best result in comparison to what a tummy tuck would or what Liposuction could do on the person who is young and doesn’t have pregnancy related skin laxity.
The perfect candidate for Liposuction is usually young, has tight skin and is pudgy with thick layers of subcutaneous fat.
These are the patients who are going to get the best liposuction results.
The opposite is also true.
With age, we lose skin elasticity, and this in conjunction with other variables that are not subcutaneous fat related the chance of quality liposuction results is reduced.
Generally, speaking older patients are lesser candidates for Liposuction compared to young people.
There’s no absolute for this. It is an ongoing continuum.
Do you understand the impact of Lipo succulent, simply assess how thick your subcutaneous fat layer is.
Do this by pulling the skin slightly snug, then gently pressing down against your skin with one finger until you feel the underlying muscle wall.
It requires a very light touch to do this.
You can practice over your rib cage and get a general sense of how thick your subcutaneous fat areas.
The thickness of your subcutaneous fat layer is probably similar in your waist.
It Tends to be a little thicker Around the belly button and slightly thin along the sides of the abdomen were oblique muscles are.
You can anticipate that Liposuction will remove 75% of the subcutaneous fat.
In other words, if your subcutaneous fat layer is 1 inch thick then you were waist can come in by 3/4 of an inch.
If you have skin laxity (you do) , then you may see less of result because skin laxity can contribute significantly to contour.
Do you understand what the procedure can or cannot accomplish look for before and after pictures of previous patients who look just like you in the before pictures
Have pictures of yourself whenever you reviewing before and after pictures to make sure you’re looking at people who had the same candidacy for the procedure this is especially true in person consultations.
Always bring pictures of yourself to use as reference and do not rely on memory of what your body looks like when reviewing before and after pictures.
To get a quality assessment and help find the right provider. I suggest scheduling multiple in person consultations with plastic surgeons in your community.
During each consultation, ask each provider to open up their portfolio and show you their entire collection before and after pictures of previous patient who had similar body characteristics to your own,
Highly experienced plastic surgeons should have access to hundreds of before, and after pictures to choose from and finding images of patients who had similar bodies, should not be too difficult.
Failure to demonstrate an impressive collection of before, and after pictures is probably the number one reason to not go with any certain provider.
Finally, the ability to deliver Deliver consistent quality Liposuction results is more difficult than most people realize.
The number of plastic surgeons who approach mastery of Liposuction is in reality quite small.
Being talented at Liposuction includes the ability to make an accurate assessment and predict outcomes correctly.
Plastic surgeons are really good at suction will understand exactly what your results will look like and there will be no guessing game.
Finding the right plastic surgeon is inherently, difficult and more difficult than most people realize. Most patients do a terrible job at selecting a provider.
I don’t mean to cynical patient I only had one consultation before scheduling surgery.
Having only one consultation before scheduling surgery more or less eliminates the ability to choose a better provider.
Exceptional results only come from exceptional providers.
The great majority of plastic servants are merely average.
Average plastic surgery results don’t typically look that great.
The results you see online or displayed on providers websites almost exclusively represent the top 5% of results or less.
Nobody is going to show their dirty laundry.
Because patient candidacy is critically important to getting good outcomes. If you don’t understand your own candidacy for the procedure, you can never really understand what your potential outcome is going to look like.
In the end, patient candidacy and provider selection of to most important variables and then the end they are probably equally as important.
Because you can’t do much about your candidacy for plastic surgery the only very bullet you really have controlled over is provider selection so if you want to maximize the chance of long-term satisfaction, you should put all your efforts in provider selection.
Skill regarding fat transfer is also similar to Liposuction.
The number of plastic surgeons who approach mastery of fat transfer is also small.
If these procedures are not done, well, patients can be left permanently disfigured with all kinds of complications that need revision surgery, and even with that results are never going to be great if it wasn’t done correctly, the first time.
You only get one shot of these procedures.
There’s no correct number of consultations to schedule to find the right provider.
Most patients simply aren’t good at the process so having more consultations will make you a more qualified consumer understanding the variables involved, and what to look for.
You’ll start to begin to understand Which providers are detail oriented, and which ones are going to convey all the important variables that need to be discussed during thorough in person consultation.
In reality there’s a lot to review.
More than anything else is the providers ability to show an impressive collection of before and after pictures and that they don’t simply show you their best results but show your average results of people who look just like you.
If you want a good looking midsection than a tummy tuck is by far a better procedure for you than Liposuction.
Nobody wants to have a tummy tuck.
I understand that, and all plastic surgeons do.
Women are willing to have a full tummy tuck because it is the only procedure that will properly address, skin laxity, and muscle separation and restore a pre-pregnancy body as much as possible.
Almost all women with pregnancy related changes are apprehensive about having a full tummy tuck and look for easier softer solutions which often lead to disappointment at a high cost.
You have a BBL, but you should recognize that the procedure is more likely to be oriented, especially if you’re not a great candidate for Liposuction.
If you want the best outcome with gluteal enhancement, then a tummy tuck with a BBL is probably the way to go.
These might be better done as separate procedures and this is something each provider will have their own view on
As I mentioned that there is a lot of information to go over.
Good luck,
Mats Hagstrom MD