Episode Details

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 regrets I don't have, and what I'd actually do if I were you, from booking a breast augmentation to deciding whether to take your implants out.

In this episode:

• Why I got my first set almost 30 years ago, and what the itty bitty titty committee had to do with it
• The capsular contracture that hit me twice, on the lowest-risk setup there is
• The $30,000 lesson, and the pig that finally fixed it
• How I picked my plastic surgeon, and the five consults that saved my result
• The truth about cup size nobody tells you before you book
• The boob job recovery reality the glossy before-and-afters leave out
• Where I land on breast implant illness and breast implant removal, without the fear-mongering or the dismissing
• The one time my gut said no, and six months later the FDA agreed
• If you've got breast implants, you're researching a breast augmentation, or you've got a set and you're weighing breast implant removal, this one's for you.

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