Arrests made after 33yo dies from bum surgery as doctors issue urgent warning

Police have made arrests and doctors issued urgent warnings after a woman became the first to die from Brazilian Bum Lift surgery in the UK.

The world’s deadliest cosmetic procedure has claimed its first victim on British soil - leading to the arrest of two people on suspicion of manslaughter and urgent warnings from doctors.

Mother-of-five Alice Webb, 33, became the first person to die in the UK from a Brazilian Bum Lift operation after something “went wrong” while she was having the cosmetic treatment at a studio in Gloucester earlier this week, The Sun reports.

Ms Webb, who has five daughters aged between seven and 15, was also involved in the beauty treatment industry as an advanced aesthetic practitioner but has left her family devastated.

Diana Webb, 58, who calls herself Alice’s “second mum” as she helped raise her, had warned Ms Webb before she died after going under the knife.

“We had talked about it a lot before she went to have the procedure,” Diana told The Sun.

“She had told me she was going to have this done and I said she didn’t need it - she already looked beautiful.

“And she was stunning on her own.

“We were on the phone for two hours before she went. Alice said they seemed really professional and put her at ease about the procedure.

“She was not one of these people that would go and just have something done without looking at every little detail first, obviously because she worked in the industry too.

“Alice put her heart into her work. She took every course she could take, including this one, because she wanted to make sure she got everything right.”

Alice Webb passed away shortly after having the BBL surgery.

Gloucester Police confirmed two people had been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter over the horror.

Diana said her family would demand the government ban liquid BBL injections to make sure Alice’s death was “the first and the last” on British shores.

“We want justice now because nobody else should go through what we are going through,” she said.

Police rushed to a house on Monday evening at around 11.30pm local time after the alarm was raised. Ms Webb was taken to the Gloucestershire Royal Infirmary but died shortly after in the early hours of Tuesday morning.

Her devastated partner Dane Knight, 38, posted a tribute online saying: “Want to say a heartfelt thank you to all family and friends that were here for us at our time of need, including all of the kind messages sent to my children and myself.

“There was some very beautiful messages sent by some of your children that formed a start of a smile from the corner of my kids mouth.”

Ms Webb was having the cosmetic surgery at a studio.

A GoFundMe page has been started in her honour.

A GoFundMe page has been for Ms Webb’s family after the tragedy.

“I am hoping to raise as many funds as we can to support Dane, the partner of Alice and their five beautiful children at this very difficult sad time,” the page description reads.

“Alice passed away Monday evening after having the BBL treatment which has gone wrong.

“Alice joined the beauty & Aesthetics industry two years ago and she has been smashing it, doing amazing.

“She cared about her clients, she would always check in to see if they were OK, Alice was a beautiful person inside and out and I feel very lucky to have known her and to have spent time with her in our salon.

“Alice would ask for advice all the time and ask to check if there was anything more she could do to improve her skills but she was just a pure natural and never needed my help but always wanting to be the best at her job and that she was.

“Alice has passed away at a young age of 34. Alice was beautiful inside and out with the biggest heart, her family was her world she is leaving behind her partner Dane & 5 beautiful children.

“As you can imagine this is a very difficult heart breaking time for them all so if we can all help donate or share to help take of some financial stress it would be really appreciated by the family.”

Demi Agoglia left behind three children.

Bonnie Cooper developed sepsis after undergoing a bum lift.

In the past few years at least 28 Brits have died — seven in Turkey — after complications from BBL operations, The Sun reports.

Demi Agoglia was only 26 when she died of unknown causes in January, leaving behind her three young sons.

Family members said she returned to the clinic following the procedure in Istanbul for a check-up but then fell ill.

She had a heart attack while in a taxi on her way to the hospital as her partner, Bradley Jones, gave her CPR in a desperate bid to save her life, according to the Independent.

Elsewhere, Bonnie-Louise Cooper was rushed to hospital while suffering hallucinations and a skyrocketing temperature after having filler injected into her bum in the UK.

Just 36 hours earlier the hair beautician from Swanage had spent $3000 on a 30 minute “lunchtime liquid BBL” before contracting sepsis. She is lucky to have survived.

Bonnie's before and after photos.

Last year a woman in Sydney, Australia, was regretting her Brazilian Bum Lift after she woke up looking like “Shrek” with a “huge a**e” she claims she didn’t ask for.

Tori Dejong went viral on TikTok sharing her cosmetic surgery horror story.

“Me trying to convince my mum getting a BBL was a smart idea and her reply was ‘I told you so’ & correct advice so now I’m stuck with a huge a**e I don’t want anymore,” she wrote over the video.

“Learn from me – a BBL is not the ‘quick fix’ to feeling confident,” Dejong warned in her caption.

“I actually never wanted a huge a**e, just slightly bigger and woke up looking like Shrek.”

The mother of four admitted that she wasn’t in the best mental state at the time of wanting the procedure being four and a half months post-partum and said she “wasn’t even thinking clearly about the whole thing.”

Tori Dejong went viral on TikTok sharing her cosmetic surgery horror story.

Plastic surgery campaign group Save Face has been lobbying the British government to ban the procedures.

“We made it absolutely clear, that without urgent intervention someone would die,” Save Face director Ashton Collins told The Sun.

“It makes me incredibly sad and angry that today, our fear has been confirmed and a family has been shattered

“Liquid BBL procedures are a crisis waiting to happen. They are advertised on social media as ‘risk-free’, ‘cheaper’ alternatives to the surgical counterpart and that could not be further from the truth …

“I am flabbergasted and appalled by the unscrupulous nature of the people who are still offering these treatments even though they know some of their patients have been hospitalised and will no doubt continue to do so after hearing this awful news.

It is outrageous that laypeople feel it is appropriate for them to offer treatments that surgeons will not perform because they are too dangerous.”

BBLs, the infamous procedure popularised by Kim Kardashian, are known as the deadliest aesthetic procedure with recent data suggesting the mortality rate is only getting worse, MedPage Today reported.

- additional reporting by The Sun and New York Post