Ruth didn’t want to pay a plastic surgeon to give her the body of her dreams. She wanted to do it herself. Rather than forking over nearly $100,000 on traditional liposuction, under the supervision of a medical expert, the 55-year-old instead purchased a $95 kit of Korean fat-dissolving fluids online, pumped the potion into a syringe and shot it into her lower belly, thighs and double chin. She’d already lost 45 pounds with GLP-1 meds that she was self-administering at home. So why not, she thought, dissolve those additional “pockets of fat” that she still couldn’t erase herself — no matter the safety risks. Ruth, a married mom of two, who chose to withhold her last name for privacy, is just one of a rising number of women choosing to bypass the safety of an operating room to, instead, per