Niecy Nash Jokes She Started the BBL Trend with Prosthetic Butt 3x Bigger Than Her Own onReno 911!

Mar. 15, 2025

Niecy Nash-Betts looks back on days wearing a prosthetic butt on “Reno 911!".Photo:Jeff Snyder/FilmMagic; Kevin Winter/Getty

Jeff Snyder/FilmMagic; Kevin Winter/Getty

Niecy Nash-Bettsis looking back on herReno 911!costume with humor.

The award-winning actress, 54, appeared on anOct. 30 episodeof theNew Heightspodcast withJasonandTravis Kelce, during which she got to talking about the fake booty she wore while playing Deputy Raineesha Williams on the mockumentary-style sitcom, which ran from 2003-2009.

“Can I just ask about Reno 911!? That was Travis and I’s favorite show growing up. You were fantastic. How fun was it working on that show?” Jason asked during a rapid-fire Q&A segment.

“It was a lot of fun, great fun. The worst thing about it and the best thing about it was the booty that I wore in it,” she recalled, referencing the prosthetic rump she wore for the series.

Niecy Nash-Betts on “Reno 911!” in 2007.Everett

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Nash-Betts explained that they took a mold of her real butt and “magnified it three times,” which had its pros and cons. “In the winter when we shot it was great because I was never cold outside. I was always warm. But in the summertime, I felt like I was about to die,” she said.

“So you had the BBL [Brazilian butt lift] inReno 911!,” Jason joked, with Nash-Betts agreeing, “before it was evenpopularright?”

The topic of Raineesha’s rear end came up in conversation when Nash-Betts appeared on theConan O’Brien Needs a Friendpodcastin January. When asked why it was her idea to wear an artificial butt, she said that she wanted her character to look like the women in her own life.

Wanting to get the look as real as possible, Nash-Betts recalled bringing one of her friends in for a fitting. “She had the natural slamma-jamma. I’m like, you see you have to start from the hips and wrap it around. I got the booty right.”

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Nash-Betts returned to theReno-verse with therevival of the series on Quibi in 2020.

Cedric Yarbrough, Carlos Alazraqui, Ian Roberts, Joe Lo Truglio, and Mary Birdsong also made up the returning cast.

“To come back and put on my uniform and get back together with my friends in an unscripted environment was delicious to me. It was like no time passed,” Nash-Betts told PEOPLE at the time.

“I don’t care what you hear on the streets,I single-handedly take credit forRenocoming backbecause for all of these years we’ve been off television, I constantly every couple of months will email the gang, ‘Guys, we should get back together, let’s do it again.’ I think I kept putting it in the universe and it manifested.”

source: people.com