Photos: Meet Tatiana Williams, a transgender woman who spent £60,000 to sculpture her body & get a 60-inch a$$

A transgender woman has had more than 100 black-market injections to achieve her 60-inch bum - despite her friends dying due to similar operations.

Tatiana Williams, 42, has spent £60,000 sculpting her body over the past 20 years - including injections that have filled each bum cheek with a incredible 8lb of silicone.

She said that similar high-risk illegal operations have maimed and killed a number of her friends, but that she has no regrets over her extensive plastic surgery.

Ms Williams, who lives in Miami, Florida, has had breast enhancements, chin implants, facial fillers and laser surgery - all without visiting a licensed surgeon.

She said: 'Going to the black market is a big risk. People can die from these injections.'

'I've seen people eaten up by the silicone. I've seen them turn black-and-blue and not being able to walk anymore. 

'I've seen people have their whole breast taken off. I've seen everything.

'It's cheaper on the black market and people are willing to take the risks to achieve the beauty.

'I'm one of the lucky ones and I knock on wood everyday thanking God that he brought me through.' 

Illegal silicone injections often use non-surgical silicone - sometimes bought from hardware stores - that can lead to severe infections that result in deformations, amputations and even death.

But Ms Williams said that many people take the risk to follow in the footsteps of curvy celebrities.

She said: 'I love Kim Kardashian's body - it's beautiful. She's exactly what a woman should be.

'When it comes to me and celebrities, a lot of people compare me to Nicki Minaj.

'It makes me laugh because I'm thinking, 'I had a** before I even knew of Nicki or before she was even around'.

'Maybe Nicki's actually got an a** like me.'

Ms Williams, who was born Cory Williams, said she has always lived an unorthodox lifestyle but that her family have been supportive from the beginning.

She knew she was attracted to men from a young age before deciding to start living as a woman in her late teens. 

She said: 'My childhood was loving and respectful and so I was able to grow up into a positive and productive individual.

'I didn't have the same hang-ups as some of the people in the transgender community who were ostracised by family members.