Photo: Kate Moss last May in New York.
SKEPTICAL OF IMPLANTS
Model Kate Moss, 34, says she’s not opposed to cosmetic surgery on her breasts, if she needs it. But she’s skeptical about breast implants because so many women’s implants look and feel unnatural.
In a face-to-face discussion with Interview magazine, Moss said:
They are awful. So many of my friends have had them, and they’ve gone wrong. One of my friends … had one that sort of moved up to her shoulder. One was normal, and the other was up by her collarbone.
I know only one girl who has good ones. And most of them are so hard you can knock on them like a door. I’m not into them.
I mean, if I got all saggy, like the sacks some women have after they have children, I’d have them done. I’m not against them, but [not] if you have normal ones, just to have them enlarged for the sake of having big ones …
Related links:
- Breast implants are like cell phones – much loved, but a problem
- Elizabeth Hurley likes facial fix-ups in photos, but not yet with a knife
- Many ‘best breasts’ in Top 10 list are fake, but not all
- Tyra Banks’ nose, Charity Hodges’ breasts, Liv Tyler’s lips
- Demand for plastic surgery drops; O.C. stereotype remains strong
- ‘Real Housewife’ typifies breast-implant problems
- Pros and cons of breast implants
- FDA on breast implants
- Beauty and the Breast on implant safety
- Dr. Rob Oliver’s links to studies on implant safety
- Readers have mixed feelings about plastic surgery, surveys show
- Jamie Lee Curtis says plastic surgery “stimulated” drug abuse
For more on celebrities and cosmetic medicine, see links on the right side of this blog.
Did you miss?
Here’s a sampling of intriguing stories out of Orange County of last week:
- Is that a cell phone in your TV? Broadcom hopes so
- Demand to buy O.C. homes doubles in a year
- Doctors propose more work on Hillary Clinton’s 60-year-old face
- Poll: How’s the new 714 phone dialing going?
- SoCal leading indicator slides below 2004 level
- California ranks 2nd in mortgage fraud
We looked into them for reconstructive surgery after a double mastectomy for breast cancer. After many weeks of research, soul-searching, and getting opinions, my wife decided against them. The surgeon had already inserted an expander that then needed to be removed. The expander had already started to cause a “Capsule” of scar tissue to form, which had to be surgically scraped out. It’s this capsule that makes implants harden up, painful, and unsightly.
Thanks to the expander and the metallic injection port, my wife was unable to get needed MRI scans.
But aside from that, many women who had implants shared their stories, sometimes horror stories of infections, mistakes, multiple surgeries, leakages, etc. And they need to be replaced every ten years or so. More surgeries.
One very kind nurse at the hospital even allowed my wife to feel her breasts with implants. They were hard and encapsulated.
So my wife is flat-chested and at peace with herself. And I don’t mind at all. Better that than having her worrying about having foreign objects in her, and always worrying about injuring them and causing a leak.
Stay natural. Don’t get sliced up just to shove a bag of silicon in you that will make you a travesty.