Speaking up about her experience of her teen years, Raven Symoné has opened up on a podcast where she shared that she had gotten two breast reductions and lip done before she had turned 18.
“I had two breast reductions and lipo before I turned 18,” Symoné said during her podcast, The Best Podcast Ever with Raven and Miranda.
She went on to explain the reasoning behind getting the procedures done early during that time in her life.
“There was paperwork involved. My dad suggested strongly that I should get my breasts reduced. He was like, ‘So you don’t feel bad, is there anything that you want?’ I was like, ‘Yeah, if I get lipo, will people stop calling me fat?’ So I got a two-fer.”
Speaking of the situation as a whole she says it “was just a mess, just being that young and the pain of it all.”
Getting into a tough part of the surgery, she spoke of a terrible situation after the surgery where she exprienced a seizure. “And I remember waking up and seeing everything…I started having this dry mouth and couldn’t breathe and went back under and they were like ‘You have a seizure,'” She detailed. “The recovery was a little painful. I still have scar tissue to this day. I gained weight after and had to go back for a little bit more out because they were still too big.”
Even so after the surgery, she spoke of the body-shaming that she experienced had not gone away.
“Still got reamed through social media because I wasn’t skinny as everybody else and they still called me fat. You get that done and it’s still not what everybody wanted to see.”
