Exclusive | Meet the women performing at-home liposuction on themselves with shady $95 kitsto shed weight

Ruth didn’t want to pay a plastic surgeon to give her the body of her dreams.She wanted to do it herself. Rather than forking over nearly $100,000 on traditional liposuction, under the supervision of a medical expert, the 55-year-old instead purchased a $95 kit of Korean fat-dissolving fluids online, pumped the potion into a syringe and shot it into her lower belly, thighs and double chin. She’d already lost 45 pounds with GLP-1 meds that she was self-administering at home.

So why not, she thought, dissolve those additional “pockets of fat” that she still couldn’t erase herself — no matter the safety risks.Ruth, a married mom of two, who chose to withhold her last name for privacy, is just one of a rising number of women choosing to bypass the safety of an operating room to, instead, perform a makeshift, shady version of liposuction on themselves, at home, as trailblazers of the “DIY Lipo” trend. It’s a controversial cosmetic movement that touts do-it-yourself injectables as a nonsurgical answer to the prayers of folks fighting the battle of the bulge. But, unlike Kybella, a popular FDA-approved, yet disputable jab administered by medical professionals to permanently destroy fat cells in targeted areas, which can cost roughly $500 to $1,500 per treatment in NYC, these black-market DIY dupes are unregulated and pose significant safety risks, such as permanent scarring, serious infections, skin deformities, cysts and painful knots.As precarious self-administered GLP-1s have opened the door to even more dangerous at-home cosmetic procedures such as this one, despite the shocking risks, hundreds of women, like Ruth, are doing whatever it takes to get snatched without breaking the bank — and are encouraging others online to follow suit.“I will never stop using this product.I love it. I want it on subscription,” Ruth told The Post of her cherished Dr.

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