'My quick fix liquid BBL started rotting - the pain was worse than childbirth'

A regrets her 'vain decision' to get a in her quest for the 'ideal bottom' - as she nearly died when she began 'rotting from the inside out'.

Charlotte Booth says she used to visit the gym seven days a week but opted to fork out nearly £2,500 for a with 100ml of injectable filler in May 2023.

The 36-year-old claims she was given no aftercare instructions and that within 12 days she had such severe abscesses she 'passed out in pain' and took herself to hospital.

But the business owner claims the refused to treat her at first so she returned to the original clinic to have dissolver put in but left the clinician concerned when 'pus and filler rolled down her leg'.

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With wounds that looked like 'burned chicken skin', Charlotte was rushed to hospital for emergency surgery, where she says her notes show she was just hours from death due to , gangrene and necrotic abscesses.

Now the consultant regrets the 'vain decision' that 'ruined' her life and left her with a bum that 'none of us wants' as she claims it looks like a machete wound on one cheek and like she's been shot in the other.

She has even been registered as medically disabled - as she hardly has the energy to walk her three or even get up the stairs as she has 'no buttock muscle left'. Taking to social media, the business woman urges people to sign a petition advocating for the creation of 'Alice's Law' that calls for a ban on liquid BBL procedures from the high street.

This follows the tragic death of mum-of-five, Alice Webb, on 24 September 2024 after having the treatment. Charlotte, who lives in , Greater Manchester said: "The decision to have butt filler completely and utterly ruined my life.

"I was hoping it was going to my quick fix to having the ideal bottom. Unfortunately it turned out to be the very long fix that nearly killed me and left me with a bum that none of us want. I've now got the smallest bum I've ever had that looks absolutely disgusting. I look like I've been hit with a machete on one side and shot on the other. I have the biggest hip dips you've ever seen in your life where I literally have no buttock muscle left. Literally skin and bone. It needs to be banned."

Her injection of 100ml of filler was reportedly performed by a company renting a room in the beauty clinic she'd previously had other procedures in.

Charlotte said: "At the time there was lots of stuff in the news about people going over to Turkey and having implants and liposuction. That's something I'd obviously researched and then not gone ahead with. I'd then looked into liquid BBL and there wasn't a huge amount online.

"There were minimal aftercare instructions. I thought 'oh well, if there's no bad press or news stories that you'd expect to see it must be fine'. If you look at some girls they have up to 1,000 ml of filler put in. I only had 100ml put on each side. Not even a can of coke full.

"I was sent away with no aftercare instructions, no phone number and was just told I'd be sore for a bit and to drink as much water as I can because the filler absorbs water. Because I'd not been given any aftercare instructions I'd gone onto the internet and looked at the aftercare and how long could potentially be in pain for. It said anything up to two weeks.

"After about five days my skin started going really hot, really red and really pink. I thought 'is this because I've drank too much water'. I suffered for a few more days because I thought if it's still sore after two weeks like I'd read online that's when I'll get back in touch with them."

After noticing abscesses on her buttocks and 'passing out' from pain twelve days after her treatment Charlotte took herself to hospital and claimed 'judgemental' doctors turned her away. She then went back to the clinic to have filler dissolver and left with 'pus and filler dripping down her leg'.

The consultant claims she was hours from death when she went in for emergency surgery and discovered she had sepsis, gangrene and necrotic abscesses.

After successful surgery Charlotte was forced to spend nine days 'screaming' in hospital having her dressings changed because the pain was 'worse than childbirth'. She then returned home and revealed district nurses visited her twice daily for five months to change her dressings.

She is still suffering the consequences of the procedure 18 months later and doctors are concerned with how 'skinny' she is. She now urges people 'not to go anywhere near' the procedure and wants it to be banned following the tragic death of Alice Webb.