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BY LAUREN ZIMA

Hips don’t lie -- but one former stripper lied about her hips. A transgender man in Florida worked as a stripper but posed as a doctor, and his medical practices caused at least one woman a huge pain … in the butt.

Oneal Ron Morris was charging Florida women $700 for injections into their behinds to make their backsides bigger and rounder … like his. Only problem is that Morris’ injection cocktail was made up of mineral oil, cement and and Fix a Flat tire repair gel, and he sealed the wounds with super glue.

Police got wind of Morris’ scam and arrested him after a Florida woman was hospitalized. WPLG has details on what happened to that woman, and caught up with Morris as he was released from jail on Friday.

OFFICER: “A short time later she develops very serious pains in her abdomen, throughout her body. She knows something’s wrong.”
REPORTER: “The woman went to two local hospitals, then finally drove here, to Tampa General, where she was treated for pain, pneumonia and even a mersa infection.”
REPORTER: “Do you have anything to say to her?”
MORRIS: “I have nothing to say to nobody.”

Morris is charged with practicing medicine without a license and causing bodily harm. The Miami New Times points out that, unfortunately, this type of story isn’t that rare.

“This type of back-alley ass-enhancement -- with fatal effects -- isn't novel to South Florida. Two years ago, we wrote a feature piece about the underground silicon-injection scene in Miami and the fatalities that have resulted from bad injections.”

WFOR spoke with a Florida plastic surgeon, who says that in tough economic times, people are looking for cheap alternatives.

DR. RAINER SACHSE: “People are trying to find a shortcut. Sometimes it might work, but more often that not it probably doesn’t work, and then it’s sad that something like that can happen.”

But a writer for American Thinker says these practices are more reflective of a cultural change -- that people like big butts.

“By selling insecure women on the big butt mythology new age con artists have created a need that can be exploited by legitimate plastic surgeons or dangerous criminals.”