BOTTOMS UP!
Surgically enhanced waitresses all the rage
MAKE mine a Hiney.
Cocktail waitresses sporting soupedup, caricature-sized curves are all the rage at Washington Heights nightclubs, where deep-pocketed testorone-filled patrons have helped spark burgeoning interest in servers with balloon-sized booties and boobs.
The leading ladies of desire include “The Dream Team,” a cadre of five busty beauties with a penchant for going under the knife.
“Everyone is asking me for my doctor’s info,” said Dream Team member Jennifer Echeverry, 26, who said she easily earns up to $2,000 a night selling vessels of vodka, tequila and rum for around $200 a pop at Upper Manhattan hotspots such as Negro Claro.
“I got my first surgery at 17 — lipo, breast augmentation and a fat transfer,” Echeverry sa id, adding that she got yet another, a butt i mplant, last year because “my a-- wasn’t big enough. I had to touch it up.”
Echeverry and her crew count thousands of lusty followers on Twitter. The e-attention entices club owners to put the posse on display for hours at a time, guaranteeing record bar tabs.
“At first I didn’t want to do it, it was too sexual. But they sell so much (alcohol), it’s amazing,” said Negro Claro owner Rud Morales, who ponys up 12% of the sales to the women. “They are incredible! When they are here, I sell a hundred bottles. When they are not here, I sell 50 or 60 bottles.”
Their serving shtick includes the distribution of sparklers to the mostly male crowd each time a bottle of booze is bought — tactics devised by Dream Team’s founder Rusty (Rus Rus) Pena.
Pena, who is Dominican, said he was promoting hip-hop parties uptown when he noticed a dearth of the sex-kitten cocktail waitresses usually found in clubs in l ower Manhattan.
“The thicker, the better,” Pena said. “That’s what men l i ke ; it’s a lways been about bigbooty girls.”
A nother propr iet or, Victor Mayovanez, pumped up his own group of ni ne cur v y “Opus Dolls” to pour it on thick at Opus Lounge in Inwood.
“They look good,” said Mayovanez, who eschews the hip-hop crowd, saying he targets “classy people” and won’t permit patrons to wear hoodies or baggy jeans. “When you see something that looks good, you want to come look at them.”
Women interviewed by the Daily News said surgical procedures are nothing unusual back home in Colombia, the Dominican Republic and Spain.
“If you enhance something to make yourself feel better. By all means,” said Glorys Feliz, 23, who paid about $7,000 to a doctor in Spain for breast implants — growing her body parts from a 32A to a 36C.
Feliz, a Dominican i mmigrant, spends her days at a Dyckman St. lingerie shop selling full-length spandex bodysuits ($92) that squeeze women’s bodies into a smooth, hourglass ideal.
Still, the fixation with surgically enhanced curves has its detractors.
Khari Nixon, Source Magazine’s online editor, criticized the rap world’s normalization of augmented, oversized body parts and those who obtain them. “They are walking billboards for getting implants,” Nixon said. “Light skin, wavy hair girls in Harlem and Washington Heights are like the Mona Lisas . . . there is a history in hip-hop of idealizing these women.”