"For 22 years, I ran around with small bags of saline water on my chest a fact I shared with only a handful of close friends. I felt ashamed of having chosen artificial enhancement. I'm an outdoorsy mountain runner. At 56, I want to model ageing naturally, but having breast implants ran counter to that. Now they are gone, thanks to explant surgery implant removal without replacement."
"Like other women I spoke with who later had their breast implants removed, I originally got mine to fit a nearly impossible beauty standard: a thin body with round, fuller breasts. Does wearing a bra make breasts more or less perky? My little A-cups had risen to the occasion to nurse my two babies from 1998 through 2002. They literally vanished after weaning, as if my body absorbed every cell of breast tissue."
She lived with saline breast implants for 22 years and concealed them from most people, feeling ashamed of choosing artificial enhancement. She is an outdoorsy mountain runner who wants to model natural ageing at age 56, so she underwent explant surgery to remove implants without replacement. She speaks openly about going flat-chested to encourage other women facing implant removal or mastectomy to consider staying flat. She originally got implants to meet a beauty standard favoring thin bodies with round, fuller breasts. Early family and cultural messages reinforced the value of well-shaped breasts, and motherhood dramatically altered her chest size and self-image.
Read at www.theguardian.com
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