“I had my first breast discount at 15,” the That is So Raven alum shared on a current episode of her podcast. “I went from a triple D all the best way right down to a B,” she added, noting that “somebody stated I wanted to do it so as to get a present.”
Raven-Symoné is wanting again on the the pressures she confronted as a younger actress in Hollywood.
In the course of the December 5 episode of her Tea Time with Raven & Miranda podcast, which she co-hosts together with her spouse, Miranda Pearman-Maday, the That is So Raven alum recalled having her first breast discount when she was simply 15 years outdated.
“I had my first breast discount at 15,” Raven shared. “I went from a triple D all the best way right down to a B,” noting that “somebody stated I wanted to do it so as to get a present.”
Raven, who starred on the Disney Channel present from 2003 to 2007, stated that the breast discount led to her getting liposuction as nicely after she was criticized over her weight.
“On the similar time I used to be like, ‘If you happen to’re gonna take my boobs out, I desire a lipo,’” she continued.
Whereas Raven stated plenty of the strain to vary her look got here from the adults round her on the time, she additionally stated she felt sexualized by the younger male viewers who watched That is So Raven.
“I felt like boys watched the present as a result of I had massive boobs,” Raven added. “I really feel like that was the case. They got here for the boobs and stayed for the comedy.”
Now at age 38, the comic says she’s embraced extra physique positivity, telling listeners, “There’s this lovely embracing of the physique now that I did not get as a younger lady.”
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Elsewhere within the episode, Raven bought candid in regards to the “anchor scar” she bought because of her breast discount surgical procedures.
“When you have got a breast discount, beneath the areola they make a little bit incision, they usually come down straight beneath the boob and, like, filet you from the underside, and it appears to be like like an anchor,” she defined.
Raven beforehand opened up in regards to the surgical procedure on an episode of the podcast final yr, calling it a “mess.”
“It was only a mess, simply being that younger and ugh, the ache of all of it,” Raven recalled earlier than sharing the painful restoration course of, including that she had “to return” for a second breast discount as a result of her breasts have been “nonetheless too massive” after she “gained weight.”
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The Cheetah Women star additionally revealed she had a seizure after her first breast discount surgical procedure.
“I keep in mind waking up and seeing every little thing … after which I simply began to have this dry mouth and could not breathe and went again below,” she stated, including that the reminiscence of the seizure nonetheless “freaks her out a bit.”
Whereas she urged different youngsters who’re contemplating cosmetic surgery to attend till they’ve reached puberty, Raven stated she does not actually “remorse” getting her breast discount surgical procedures.
“I do not know if I remorse it as a result of they grew again … to not that massive of a dimension,” she defined. “If I did not have it they usually grew, the best way grew now, would my titties dangle to my ankles? Did I forestall double Z’s from occurring slightly than sitting in a pleasant double D cup proper now?”
