I Got My Boobs Done 4 Times. Here's What I Wish I'd Known
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I Got My Boobs Done 4 Times. Here's What I Wish I'd Known

B2Upper-intermediateJune 16, 202625 min

I've had four boob jobs in 27 years, two rounds of capsular contracture, a $30,000 lesson, and a little pig holding one of them together. And I'd do it all again. Four breast augmentations. Two rounds of capsular contracture, the complication they make sound rarer than it is. A thirty-thousand-dollar mistake I made because I thought I knew better than my surgeon, a boob job recovery nobody prepares you for, and an honest, no-shame conversation about breast implant illness (BII). This is everything I wish someone had told me before my first breast implants: the receipts, the r...

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the $30,000 mistake, yes, really,

and where I finally ended up once it was all said and done.

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I'm 48 and I've had my titties done four times. That's right, four boob jobs and I would do it all over again. In today's episode, I'm giving you the whole story in 10 chapters, why I did it, the complication

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that I got hit with twice, even on the safest setup, the $30,000 mistake, yes, really, where I land on breast implant illness and where I finally ended up once it was all said and done.

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So if you have implants, you've ever thought about getting them, or you've got a set right now and you're wondering whether or not you should take them out.

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