Lauryn Bostick describes the psychological shock of breast implant removal, going from double-D to C-cup. She says $100 million wouldn't make her re-implant. Dr. Robert Whitfield discusses how explant surgery disrupts the personal narrative patients build around their bodies.
you had paid me $100 million, I still would not put those implants back in.
We just want our patients and all the patients who can benefit from that to understand that.
One thing that I think is important to talk about is it's— it is a mindfuck, at least for me, to have double D boobs, and then you go under the knife and then you have C's when you get out.
It is, from a mental perspective, like you said, and you've told me this, it's a mindfuck. It's very hard from an image perspective right off the bat.
But here's the weird thing, and I mean this wholeheartedly, if you had paid me $100 million, I still would not put those implants back in. Like, that's, that's the mindfuck of it, is that I was like, ew, get these implants away from me, I don't want them. And when they were out and you go from a double D to a C and it's weird, I still don't want them back in. So the feeling is very like, um, it's like you can't grab the feeling because you don't know what the feeling is to Does that make sense?
It's like, you know, you're not— the balance is gone, right? So you had this for a long period of time, it was part of you.
It's like a narrative and an identity.
And then when you take it away, there's no— it's not this, it's not balanced anymore. And you have to balance out, you know, the system, if you will, uh, and obviously that's a little bit deeper and it's hard for people to get to that point.
