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“#KylieJennerChallenge Causes Big Trouble” - Dr. Charles Andrew Salzberg

Reality television star and Kardashian sibling Kylie Jenner is known for her pillow-lipped look, and now for a rash of injuries that are sending teens to emergency rooms across the country.

  • CBS News
  • New York, NY
  • (April 21, 2015)

Reality television star and Kardashian sibling Kylie Jenner is known for her pillow-lipped look, and now for a rash of injuries that are sending teens to emergency rooms across the country. On Monday, the hashtag #KylieJennerChallenge began trending on Twitter, a result of teen and tween fans attempting to emulate the star's plump pout by suctioning their lips with a bottle or jar. "The practice of trying to engorge your lips by suctioning can be dangerous," Andrew Salzberg, MD, an associate professor of plastic surgery at the Icahn School of Medicine of Mount Sinai, told CBS News. "It's a traumatic injury when you're suctioning anything." Learn more