Germany had to, because they’re surrounded by the countries they tried to take over and the people they tried to kill. Germany also desperately needed money from the U.S. to rebuild after WWII ended. Japan has never really had to reckon with its past and has pretty systematically refused to do so.

According to the surgeons I visited, most women don’t get MRIs because they get their implants redone before they start experiencing leaks, or they notice something is up without an MRI because the shape/texture of the implant changes (often older implants need to be replaced because of capsular contracture, which 1.…

It’s not included in the surgery, and most women I know who have implants do not get regular MRIs. Insurance also won’t cover it, AFAIK.

I spent way more than 5 hours researching augmentation, spend a year visiting surgeons, and waited another nine months to make sure I was really sure I wanted to go through with it. Any surgery can go wrong. Any surgery can have complications. Websites like RealSelf are very helpful; saying people should have to watch…

Right? I thought about making this analogy and didn’t, but it’s the same philosophy - someone out there is doing something to their body that I personally have a problem with, ergo I will try to make it as onerous as I possibly can for them to do the thing I disapprove of! Not that different when you think about it.…

People think of implants and think of gross porn star boobs because that’s where you see the most fake/bad fake implants. Most don’t look like that! It’s not like women with implants walk around advertising that they’ve gotten them, and they’re by far the most popular plastic surgery in the U.S., so chances are you…

I got implants and a nose job (well, the nose job was more complicated and I needed it to not have my sinuses literally rotting inside my head because they didn’t drain) because your entire life is a long damn time to feel bad about yourself. I felt self-conscious about the hump in my nose for years after it was…

Nope. A lot of women get a combination lift/reduction, actually.

There are a ton of options, seriously. Especially depending if you are getting implants after a mastectomy or other surgery. There are different shapes, different textures, different profiles (how rounded they are), and there are teardrop and “wedge” shaped ones that go in the lower part of a breast. There are also…

Telling people they should be forced to watch 5 hours of a TV show before they can get surgery is ridiculous. And trust, with the line of work I’m in, I have seen the absolute worst that can go wrong in surgery. I mean, the worst. The stuff that most people don’t know about, because if they did, they would probably…

Oh, and, most people think of plastic surgery/implants as awful because those are the ones that are noticeable. If someone’s had good implants or a good facelift...you don’t notice it, because that’s the whole idea! Not everyone who gets implants is walking around with grapefruits on their chest.

Head over to RealSelf and look up augmentation - seriously a very helpful site when it comes to learning what to expect and what is normal/what isn’t after an augmentation.

Having an asymmetrical chest can also seriously jank up your back. A high school classmate of mine had one reduced slightly because she was getting nerve damage from a pinched nerve on the heavier side because her shoulder pulled forward more.

Best wishes for your recovery!

I imagine that the women who get implants decided, like I did, that they wanted their boobs to look a certain way because that was the way they wanted them to look, and since it is their body, they went ahead and did it!

Yup. I have fake boobs and have had a rhinoplasty (the nose job was actually way more complicated than that because of a really bad nose break and needing completely redone sinuses which involved both a plastic surgeon and an ENT and was a very complicated procedure). It is no one else’s business what surgery I decide…

Any surgery can go horribly wrong. I understand thinking it’s a bad idea to have elective surgery you don’t “need” because surgery is inherently risky, but I don’t see why you think you should be the arbiter of what surgical procedures other people get, or why you get to decide what’s ‘deserving’ plastic surgery or…

I donated an epic fucktonne of bras - like, two shopping bags full - after I got implants. But I got implants! So I’m probably just a terrible terrible person anyway, according to Jezebel.

Fuck right off.

Really? So, like, if I’m in an accident and need my face repaired, I should have to watch five hours of Botched? How about if I had a mastectomy and I need an implant? Break my nose? Get burned? Get a scar?