Chela Perez, a
Bronx-based veterinary technician turned Instagram model and bartender, resents
girls who buy their booty gains.
“Damn these girls with
their fake butts — it’s so frustrating,” says the au naturel 33-year-old mom of
one, whose juicy butt journey, including a photo shoot and costume fitting
ahead of Brooklyn’s West Indian Day Parade, is chronicled in MTV’s “TrueLife” reboot, airing Wednesdays at 10 p.m.
Perez, who credits her
bottom with her burgeoning career, and two other subjects — an army wife and a
teenage boy — will stop at nothing to attain the perfect hourglass figure, made
famous by the Kardashians and propagated endlessly on social media. The
makeover docuseries, which includes installments on Kardashian fever, looking
like Snapchat filters, and revenge porn, looks at the sacrifices made for taut
tushes: money, time, and in Perez’s case, her relationship.
“It’s been difficult
for my boyfriend to share me with social media,” says Perez of her
three-and-a-half-year relationship, which was eventually cut short on account
of her explicit accounts. Perez’s ex-boyfriend Chris says the attention of her
1.7 million followers of her Instagram account, TheRealChelasWay, “went to her
head.”
“Because I am so
aggressive, and I’m so ambitious, it is going to interfere with my allowing a
man to be a man. I can’t let go of the reins,” says a now-single Perez. As for
her “money maker,” Perez says it’s not all self-love. “I don’t like the fact
that I have pockets of cellulite…it’s hard to wear all those cute, fashionable
outfits that you see on social media.”
Miranda Johnson of
Lucky 8 production company, and the co-executive producer of the “Obsessed With
the Perfect Booty” episode, says the butt craze knows no prejudices. “It really
goes across ethnic barriers, classes, whether you’re wealthy or not,” says
Johnson. “It touches so many people across the spectrum.”
As for the patron
saint of ass, Johnson has learned who’s on top: “Kim Kardashian is the ideal
body type for everyone who wants this type of physique.”
“I want to pump it up
where it looks fake, but it isn’t fake,” Perez instructs her trainer, Kimberly,
at Retro Fitness where she works to sculpt her bottom half, using heavy weights
for two hours, six days a week to maintain the perfect waist-to-hip ratio.
While examining her
ample behind — a 49-inch circumference at its most plump — Perez muses, “It’s a
gift and a curse, I swear.”
Other “True Life”
subjects contemplate more invasive ways of getting the ideal derrière.
“I don’t want a Kim
butt — I don’t want it to be scary,” says 17-year-old Joey, discussing his
upcoming Brazilian butt lift with his parents over breakfast at their
Springfield, Illinois, home.
“But I want a Kylie
butt at least.”
“True Life/Now:Obsessed With the Perfect Booty” airs at 10 p.m. Wednesday,
Jan. 9, on MTV.
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