Kim Kardashian's posterior sparks surgery boom as nearly HALF of women seeking a better bottom request 'The Kim'

She caused a worldwide Twitter meltdown when she posted a pic of her pert post-pregnancy posterior last year and even sparked the 'bacial' - that's a bottom facial - for women seeking to emulate her behind.So it hardly comes as a surprise that Kim Kardashian has been crowned world's best bottom and sparked 45 per cent of the total requests for bottom enhancing procedures over the last 12 months.Almost half of all British women who enquired about improving their bottom with the help of cosmetic surgery cited Kim as their role model for the perfect posterior. What a surprise: Not only has Kim Kardashian been crowned world's best bottom but she's also sparked 45 per cent of the total requests for bottom enhancing procedures over the last 12 months, So popular is the 33-year-old's shapely bottom that during the last year it has become one of the biggest trends in cosmetic surgery and is now referred to simply as ‘The Kim’, according to research.Mrs Kanye West has pushed diminutive pop princess Kylie Minogue into second place in the battle of the bottoms and also pipped Beyonce, who came third in the vote, to the title.