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My Breast Reduction 5 Years Later
I had a breast reduction five years ago and this is how I feel about it now.
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The “Right” Reasons To Get a Breast Reduction
As someone who writes a lot about my breast reduction and is a huge advocate for the surgery, I get shitty people posting shitty comments that I always delete (I read and approve all comments on my content) because I don’t need that kind of negativity and no one else does. 100% of these comments are about the “right” reasons to get a breast reduction. This pisses me off to no end. When someone claims that there are “right reasons” to get a breast reduction, they are saying that most reasons are “wrong reasons.” The only wrong reason to choose a breast reduction (or augmentation for that matter) is when…
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My Behavioral and Psychological Changes After My Breast Reduction
Like so many women with large breasts I always felt like people saw them first, and me, if at all, second. I had so much internalized hate towards my breasts because I felt like they prevented me from being me, from being seen as the intelligent and competent person I am, and from feeling respected as a human and not an object.
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Things I Didn’t Ask My Breast Reduction Surgeon That I Should Have, But Didn’t Know To
Ask your surgeon and doctor about the things you care about, and don't let yourself get to a point where you are so desperate anything is good enough for you. Ask questions and if you don't like the answers, it's okay to talk to other surgeons covered by your insurance. You are going to a surgeon for a very important medical service, if they aren't satisfying your needs and concerns, find someone who will. Know as much as you can about your surgery as possible. Knowledge, in this sense, can only hep you in your breast reduction process and give you agency.
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Why I’m Not Afraid of Talking About My Breast Reduction Publicly
As I have said in my many posts about my breast reduction, I think it’s important for me to talk about it. In fact, I think it’s one of the most important things I am doing right now. I have stated in the past that I struggled to find good information and content on breast reductions when I was looking into the surgery, and that’s why I share so much about mine after the fact. This post isn’t very long and I don’t have any photos to share at this time, so bear with me. As a teenager, I wanted to know everything I could about the surgery, but also…
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My First Bra Fitting After My Reduction
After my breast reduction, I wore my stained surgical bras for months pining for the day I could buy new pretty bras. When I was allowed to buy and wear real bras, we went straight to Nordstrom’s. Mom and I wanted to get me something special as my “first bra” and mom actively boycotts Victoria’s Secret after one employee told me their “bras would fit me if I gained weight.” So to Nordstrom’s we went. We browsed all the bras, picked out a few I liked and took me back to get a fitting. At this point, by breasts were healed, but were not pretty. They looked stitched together and…
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My Three Year Breast Reduction Anniversary
Never let someone make you feel bad about a decision you made about your body because it makes you less sexually appealing to them or someone else. Your worth is not determined by your sex appeal, do not let anyone make you think that it is.
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5 Things That Changed After My Breast Reduction
A lot of things change after an invasive surgery. In the case of cosmetic surgery, the change is outwardly noticeable. If this is your first time reading about my breast reduction, I have a post outlining my experience here and a collaboration with a friend discussing the process I went through. There were some changes I experienced that didn’t fall under cosmetic changes and were a completely different ball park. Here are five things that changed for me after my breast reduction. Clothing I think it goes without saying that my bras are
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Breast Reduction: Fear, Excitement, and the Process
My friend Shelby and I collaborated on this blog when it was originally posted on our original blogs. Since this is moved content, it will not contain links to the original blogs. Plastic surgery is either a topic readily embraced or shunned because of the word “plastic” and society’s association with cosmetic procedures with “Botched,” Hollywood fakery, and vanity. We are here to talk about one procedure in particular: the breast reduction. This procedure is one that almost always improves the lives of those who get them and more than not, is medically necessary. Shelby has one scheduled, and I (Brette) had one over two years ago. As Shelby comes…
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My Breast Reduction
This picture was taken the night of my senior prom in 2014. My dress was “put together” with a corset from Frederick’s of Hollywood and mom made the tulle skirt. Shopping for formal wear was pretty much impossible, just like shopping for everything else. A lot has changed since 2014. Lets dive into this: I started my period at nine years old. Around the same time, I was fitted for my first bra- it was a big deal- mom wanted my first bra to be something I could wear for a while because she thought developing so young must be a fluke. Well, the bra we bought was an uncomfortable B…
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