How to Get a Jennifer Lopez Butt

The shape is credited to muscle built by years of dancing and work in the gym. The muscles named for that look are an enlarged gluteus medius and gluteus maximus. Dance and training can enlarge those muscles. They do not move fat from the waist to the buttock. When the muscle is already there and the outline is still not the one someone wants, the missing piece is fat and where it sits, which is a different problem from a weak glute.

Fat sits on top of that muscle. A graft adds to the fat layer. It does not enlarge the gluteus maximus, and it does not replace the years of dance that built the muscle under the shape being copied. Squats and stage work change the muscle. Liposuction and fat grafting change the fat around it. Mixing those two up is how a gym plan gets offered as a substitute for a graft, or a graft gets offered as a substitute for muscle the person never trained.

The Miami BBL is an overly generous buttock. Maximum fullness runs over the upper buttock, the middle, and the lower buttock. Patients who ask for it tend to have fuller hips and more generous medial and lateral thighs. The California BBL keeps the maximum fullness conservative and isolates it to the middle pole. Patients who ask for that tend to be more athletic and to have leaner legs. The described outline, mid-butt width at the lateral hips and projection at the mid-upper buttock, is the California side of that split. Patients who ask for a Jennifer Lopez butt are asking for that pattern, not the Miami one.

Filling the upper, middle, and lower buttock when the request was a middle pole makes a Miami result on a California request. Stopping at the middle pole when the request was fullness from top to bottom does the reverse. The lateral hips and the thighs are part of the choice. Fuller hips and fuller thighs travel with the Miami request. Leaner legs travel with the California request. The waist is narrowed by the liposuction that harvests the fat, and that narrowing changes how wide the buttock looks, but the pole that gets the graft is still chosen on purpose.

The pelvis drawing shows the bones the muscles attach to, the ilium, the sacrum, and the femur. It is not a before-and-after. The later images sit with the same topic and are not given a separate operative caption. None of them records a thigh measurement, a hip width, or which pole received fat. A result photo can show projection and a narrower waist after liposuction. It cannot show that the muscle grew, because a graft does not grow the gluteus maximus. The three muscles stay the ones that move the hip. The fat on top of them is the layer the BBL changes.

Gluteus minimus is the deepest of the three. Gluteus medius sits along the side of the hip and is the one tied, with maximus, to the enlarged muscle in this description. Gluteus maximus is the large muscle of the buttock. All three can be trained. Training changes how the hip extends, abducts, and rotates, and how steady the pelvis feels. It does not choose a middle pole versus a full upper-to-lower fill. That choice is the graft. Someone with leaner legs who wants conservative mid-butt fullness is not given the generous fill just because a fuller shape is more famous. Someone with fuller thighs who wants fullness at every level is not reduced to a middle pole just because an athletic outline is the one associated with this name.

Dance and gym work are how the muscle under this famous outline got larger. That history does not include a set of exercises, a number of days, or a promise that the same work produces the same buttock on someone else. If the gluteus medius and maximus are already trained and the mid-butt is still flat, more of the same training does not place fat at the middle pole. The graft does that. If the muscle is small and the fat is already full, a graft on a small muscle is not the dance career that built the shape people recognize. A Jennifer Lopez butt, when it is built in surgery, is still that choice of pole and of leg shape. It is not a copied stage costume, and it is not a workout printed beside the operation.

The fee follows the liposuction and the grafting that are actually planned, including whether the fullness is the generous Miami pattern or the conservative middle pole. The exam is standing, at the offices where these lifts are done, so the lateral hips, the thighs, and the projection can be seen together. Athletic legs with a request for mid-butt fullness are read as the California pattern. Fuller hips and fuller thighs with a request for fullness from top to bottom are read as the Miami pattern. The American Society of Plastic Surgeons describes buttock augmentation with fat grafting as a change in size and shape. On this plan that change is one of those two patterns, chosen from the body in front of the surgeon rather than from a stage photograph.

Kim Kardashian is named on the same topic only as another public figure associated with a curvy buttock. She is not the pattern being measured here. The pattern being measured is mid-butt width, mid-upper projection, and the California versus Miami choice of poles. A curvier public figure is not a reason to fill the upper, middle, and lower buttock when the request was the conservative middle. The assessment asks which of those two the person wants, on the body she has, including how full the hips and the thighs already are.