Am I too skinny for BBL at 5'3, 135lbs, 24 BMI?

Based on your photos, what you will benefit the most is by doing more extensive liposuction, Lipo 360, that will give you the shape that you desire to have. The main areas that you can have major improvement include your entire back and flanks. You are not too skinny to undergo a major body transformation. Body contouring will go a long way for you, because it will create an hour-glass shape for you. The fat transfer to hips will give you more feminine curves. Uneven thighs may be improved with more liposuction, but only if done with a specific technique.

There are a lot of patients who can get nice results from the BBL despite thinking that there is not enough fat. The thinner patient requires an expert at liposuction to remove as much fat as possible while leaving the skin smooth. Fat can be harvested from the abdomen, flanks, thighs, arms, back, etc. and transferred to the hips and buttocks. If the waist was smaller at one time, the waist can likely be reduced with liposuction to those same measurements or smaller provided the muscular and facial integrity has remained the same. You will find that the results are very much surgeon dependent. Recommend that you consult via email or Skype with a board certified PS to determine your fat stores.

Providing that you do not expect significant buttock/hip enlargement, you seem to be good candidate for BBL. Revision, lowering of TT scar and possibly thigh lift, should be considered. Good luck.

Thank you for your question and photos. Based on these photos and BMI, you do have enough fat for reshaping and enhancing the buttocks. I see why you are not happy with your tummy tuck. Currently you have a rectangular shape and lots of fat on your back, waist and hips. There's no feminine definition of the buttocks. If you were my patient, I would do VASER Hi Def Lipo 360 and fat transfer to the buttocks for shaping. Eventually, your very high abdominoplasty scar should be lowered. This was just poor surgical technique. Hopefully, this was not done by your doctor of choice.
See a board certified plastic surgeon experienced in advanced body sculpting techniques for an in person consultation/evaluation. Good luck.
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Dear Thrifty15950,
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, MD
Certified, American Board of Plastic Surgery
Member, American Society of Plastic Surgery
Member, American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery

Hello dear!
Thanks for the question and provided information as well.
Based on your pictures, you are a great candidate for liposuction with BBL, and I think you'll get very good results.
Liposuction allows your plastic surgeon to transform your entire shape. You can improve your abdomen, back and flanks, and of course your buttock, to give you a nice heart shape.
In general, you need to be physically healthy and at a stable weight, have realistic expectations, be a non-smoker and your BMI needs to be 33 or less.
l recommend you to make an appointment with a board certified plastic surgeon to talk about your goals and anything you need to know.
Good luck :)

Hello, thanks for your question and photos. According to the pictures, you are a good candidate for Liposuction and Brazilian Butt Lift. You can get a harmonic contour with a fat injection from the belly, back, or waist, for shaping your buttocks. Consult a board-certified plastic surgeon in your area. Good luck!

Based on your pictures, liposuction of your flanks and love handles may define your buttock better and prove fat for a small BBL. Your thighs may need a little more lipo, possible an upper thigh lift. See example in link below.

The answer to if patients are a candidate for a BBL when they have low body fat is never a black and white yes or no. It’s a great spectrum of how much can be achieved and is that acceptable to justify having the procedure.

There’s fat that can be harvested on your waist, love handles back, under arm arms and to some degree your thighs.

Are you willing to have liposuction of all those areas to have a modest gluteal augmentation?

Correcting previously done liposuction is extremely difficult and you should not expect much improvement from the previous work on your inner thighs.

Liposuction is a permanently and to some degree irreversible procedure.

I cannot emphasize enough the importance of vetting plastic surgeons before committing to having this procedure.

Do this by considering the following recommendations.
1. I recommend patients avoid traveling long distances for elective surgical procedures. There are of course instances where there is a lack of local talent and traveling to some degree is inevitable. If traveling for the procedure patients should be ready to travel to have the consultation, post operative appointments and follow up should there be issues or complications.
Patients sometimes do not appreciate the importance of in person consultations, that complications do happen or the number of people who have issues with their results or need revisions.

2. Schedule multiple consultations with different providers in your area who seem to have a good reputation for the procedure you’re interested in. Starting with at least five consultations seems like a reasonable number to me.

3. Whenever possible schedule in person consultations.
4. During in person consultations ask each plastic surgeon to show all of their before and after pictures for the procedure you’re interested in.

The goal is not to see the best results of their career but to get an idea of what average results look like and get some type of confirmation of how many of these procedures that provider has performed.

Ask to see results that were not as good as the doctor would’ve hoped for and talk about the differences in outcomes.

Honest and experienced providers should have no problems presenting this type of information.

A highly experienced plastic surgeon should have hundreds of before and after pictures for the procedure you’re interested in. At a minimum at least 20+.

5. Read all the reviews on various physician review websites paying close attention and avoiding providers with any significant number of justified negative reviews. Providers with an abundance of reviews often have aggressive marketing campaigns.

The plastic surgeons I respect most all have the single variable of not having justified negative reviews on their online profiles.
In my opinion justified negative reviews are far more telling than an abundance of positive reviews.

6. Avoid scheduling for surgery or making a deposit on the day of the consultation. Give yourself some time to think about the decision and make sure you finished all scheduled consultations before committing to having surgery that will permanently and irreversibly change your body.

When in doubt slow down and schedule more consultations.

Choosing the right plastic surgeon is the single most important variable to having a positive experience.

7. Don’t go chasing after technology or names of certain equipment. Instead focus all your efforts on finding the most experienced and talented board-certified plastic surgeon.

Best,

Mats Hagstrom MD