17 women in Venezuela have died after having illegal buttock injections

There is little data on the trade in the U.S., but there are more and more horror stories about women taking their gluteous to the maximus with fatal results.

Georgia woman Karima Gordon, 23, received injections in Mississippi in 2012.

Gordon died of blood clots in her lungs a few days later. There was so much of a 'silicone-like' substance in her buttocks that it spilled onto the floor and 'all over the place' when a medical examiner cut into her during the autopsy, according to an investigator's testimony from September.

Another woman, April Michelle Brown, 46, now has no arms or legs after a staph infection left her near death.

Doctors say that it could be years before women like Sofia see the ill effects of the injections.

She told ABC that she's worried her left buttock cheek is 'a bit deformed.' She plans to tell Dr Gus and to continue receiving more injections.