Stacey was at the top of her game in poshness and pizzazz. But when it came to cutting a curvy hourglass figure, the svelte NYC siren came in dead last.
Until she spent nearly $45,000 getting her hips and rear pumped full of a dead person’s donor fat, that is.
“It can sound jarring at first,” Stacey, 34, a married financial specialist, told The Post. “But when you look at it scientifically, cadaver donor tissue [the process of removing bone, skin, and tendons from a deceased donor] has been used in medicine for decades.”
The Manhattanite, who asked that her last name be withheld, used the harvested human remains for a mini-Brazilian Butt Lift (BBL). She also relied on the borrowed goods to fill her hip dips — and to revise a botched liposuction job on her inner left thigh.
“It’s highly regulated and ethically sourced,” she raved of the donations from the dearly departed. “It’s like we’re recycling.”
Sure, it’s not turning empty soda cans into airplane parts. But giving new life to the fallen fat is how AlloClae — a glamorous, albeit ghoulish, new advancement in non-surgical cosmetic enhancements — is helping slim centerfolds in NYC and beyond achieve the BBLs and boob jobs of their wildest dreams.
And it’s different from all the other nonsurgical enlargements on the market because, well, it’s reliant on people who’ve kicked the bucket.
If you’re suddenly worried that ticking the organ donor box on your driver’s license could mean you wind up on someone else’s behind in the afterlife, it’s not that simple — the fat can come from full body donations, which are handled in the Empire State by the Associated Medical Schools of New York, which requires a separate, no limitations sign-up.
Donors must be over the age of 18 and devoid of specific medical conditions such as transmittable disease and having undergone an autopsy.
Darren Smith, the board-certified plastic surgeon who performed Stacey’s procedures with AlloClae, explained that the injectable “functions as an off-the-shelf-fat graft.”
“It’s a tremendous asset for patients who are pretty lean, fit and don’t have a lot of fat of their own,” Smith told The Post, adding that the shot comes as a minimally invasive alternative to going under the knife.
“I get a lot of liposuction revision requests from people who underwent the surgery at other practices,” said the doc, president of the New York Regional Society of Plastic Surgeons. “AlloClae is awesome for those too, because the last thing those patients want is more liposuction to harvest fat to fix an area with divots.”
But the product isn’t only useful to naturally thin women and butchered bombshells.
It’s also in demand among folks who’ve recently shed tons of weight from using popular weight loss supplements like Ozempic and Mounjaro, Smith explained.
“A lot of the patients coming in for the breast augmentations and mini BBLs with AlloClae are people that lost a lot of the fatty volume — maybe in places they didn’t want to lose it — from Ozempic and related medications,” said the pro.
AlloClae, from Tiger Aesthetics, a tissue engineering company, is the “first structural adipose tissue designed for aesthetic body procedures, providing cushioning, volume and support,” according to its website.
Sterilized and stripped of the donor’s DNA, the filler “retains the innate 3D honeycomb structure of the adipocytes (cells that store energy as fat) to provide immediate volume at the application site.”
The company does not specify where exactly the fat they use comes from. Representatives for Tiger Aesthetics did not immediately respond to The Post’s inquiries about the production, cadaver screening process or the rising popularity of AlloClae, which hit the market in 2025.
Now everyone, from the upper echelon of the Upper East Side to reality TV VIPs like “Secret Lives of Mormon Wives” star Taylor Frankie Paul, is scrambling to get a jab of the specialized flab.
Stacey got her first hit of the stuff in June, when she rushed to Smith’s Midtown Manhattan office, seeking help with a “shark bite”-sized hole in her thigh caused by a lipo-gone-wrong operation done by another doctor in September 2019.
At the time, she’d opted to have the excess fat from her leg transferred into her face for added volume.
But the bungled extraction ended up being a great big pain in the neck.
“I was left with this giant dent in my inner thigh, and I spent the next six years and [roughly $80,000] trying to fix it with more liposuction,” she groaned. “Nothing could fix it. It turned me into a recluse. I wouldn’t wear shorts, go swimming anymore or workout.”
“AlloClae was my very, very last resort,” said Stacey, who was admittedly “skeptical” of the viability of substance at first. “It is remarkable.”
After the product worked its macabre magic on her leg and hips last summer, the millennial returned to Smith for a mini BBL in October. It’s considered a “mini” op due to the small amount of filler added to the butt. Smith applied just 50 CCs of AlloClae to each side of her bum. (For traditional BBLs, doctors typically add between 300 to 500 CCs of fat to the area, per the Cleveland Clinic).
And Stacey plans to add a few more pumps of AlloClae to her rump next month.
“I used to get bullied for not having any butt whatsoever,” she said. “Now, I’m getting checked out like crazy.”
“My husband’s like, ‘Whoa, you can’t go anywhere without me now!,’” giggled the head-turner.
Katrina Daphne, a married mother of two, is, too, keeping heads on a swivel nowadays.
She recently ditched her “barely-there” 32A cups for 32B-cup bazooms, getting a pair of Motiva breast implants and several CCs of AlloClae in November.
Wanting a natural and supple finish, the Pilates instructor entrusted Dr. Anna Steve, of Neinstein Plastic Surgery, to round out her new embellishments with the liquid gold that’s derived from the dead.
It’s a grim detail Daphne often reminds herself to forget.
“I have chosen not to think about it,” the 38-year-old chuckled, referring to the “creepiness” of using fat from an anonymous cadaver source.
“Dr. Anna explained that AlloClae would give me the best results. And she was so right,” added Daphne, gushing over the “unparalleled confidence” she’s gained since boosting her bust.
But the surge in self-esteem didn’t come cheap.
“It’s like having a Birkin bag on my chest,” Daphne joked, likening the cost of her augmentation with AlloClae to that of those haute couture carryalls — with price tags exceeding $35,000.
“It’s a similar investment,” she said.
But Steve said the payoff is worth the pretty penny.
“We like to call AlloClae ‘fat-with-benefits,’ the board-certified insider told The Post. “It’s different than your own body fat because it comes with different structural components — your own body’s fat, doesn’t have much structure.”
“So the product is an awesome option for [breast augmentation] patients who don’t necessarily want implants, but do want some structure there.”
Once administered, AlloClae functions similarly to natural body fat. Thus, if a patient gains or loses weight over time, the results from the injectable will change. But, the doctor said, “Patients can have it done multiple times. If you like the effects, you can always add more.”
And recovery time “is minimal like it is with botox or filler,” said Steve, noting that most patients are cleared to resume everyday activities — except for strenuous exercise — the same day.
“Even combined with minimally invasive breast enhancement techniques, recovery time is rapid,” she continued.
“With [traditional] below-muscle breast augmentations, surgeons often encourage six weeks of downtime, noting that it will take around six months to a year for the breasts to take their final shape,” Steve explained. “AlloClae expands our ability to use implants over the muscle and create really nice, natural-looking results.”
Daphne is in complete agreement.
“AlloClae really made a big difference in softening the lines [around the implants m], and just giving me that fullness without that fake look,” she said of the outré ooze.
“The results outweigh any creepiness.”
