- It's been three months since my BBL surgery
and I still haven't sat.
- I couldn't walk upright for eight weeks straight.
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- Hi, I'm Megan and I had a rhinoplasty, or nose job.
- Hi. My name is Kazumi.
I've gotten a breast augmentation
and I've gotten lipo 360 and a Brazilian butt lift.
And I've gotten arm lipo and I've gotten an ab etch.
- Hi, my name is Theresa
and I had the mommy makeover procedure
about three years ago.
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I got a tummy tuck and a breast lift with a small implant.
- Lipo 360 took about seven areas of my body
and got the fat out and transferred it to my butt,
which resulted in the Brazilian butt lift.
The Brazilian butt lift just kind of gave me a better shape
and gave me like the curves I've always wanted.
An ab etch, I honestly don't really know what my doctor did,
but he gave me a six pack.
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- I got my nose job in 2013 when I was a junior in college,
I had it done because I'd been thinking about it
for years and years and years.
It was always my biggest insecurity.
Other people were always like, oh my gosh,
you have a fine nose.
You don't need a nose job, blah, blah, blah.
But I got my nose job for me.
So I didn't care if other people
didn't think I needed a nose job.
It made me feel better.
- I go to my breast augmentation last September.
And then during April this year,
I got the lipo 360 and the BBL and the arm lipo
and the ab etch all on the same day,
but it really just felt like a car crash.
I've always wanted to look ultra feminine.
I always was really insecure about my body,
but I also have an OnlyFans.
And I just felt like a lot of my other friends
got their bodies done in porn.
And it was pretty normalized as something
that wasn't like super crazy to do.
- The main reason why I got the procedure.
I think I wanted this procedure ever since I was like,
probably like 16 years old.
My weight will fluctuate,
it'll go up and down, up and down.
And I would be left with stretch marks and saggy skin.
Imagine being really small and petit
and you just have like the stretch marks and saggy skin,
and you don't have any children.
- I don't regret my nose job for a single second.
I love the way that my nose looks now.
I think it fits my face better.
I feel like it represents me the way that I see myself
when I look in the mirror.
- I feel a lot more confident to say yes to things
and going outside and meeting other people.
So I don't regret it at all,
but I also did it for me.
It had nothing to do with what my boyfriend wanted
or what my OnlyFans page wanted.
- When I got my tummy tuck, I was not aware
that everybody's healing process is different.
I couldn't walk upright for eight weeks straight.
So that's one thing I do regret.
It took me longer time to heal
than I think the average person.
- Everyone I've told has always reacted like, oh my God,
that's so interesting.
Like, please show me a before picture.
I don't mind the curiosity.
- I'm in this really unique position
where most of my friends are also OnlyFans girls
or are in the porn industry,
or are just generally really liberal
and open-minded about body modifications.
So luckily I haven't received a lot of judgment
besides my parents who are already super traditional.
But I expected that.
- The main thing people like to talk about
when talk about plastic surgery
is that they automatically think that you're insecure
or you're doing it for a man.
Most of the time, it's just like
a friendly little debate between friends
'cause most people would never ever think
that I had plastic surgery.
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- No, I don't think that people treated me differently
after I got my nose job.
If anything, the resulting self-confidence
that came from having a nose job
helped turn me into the person that I am today.
- I did feel an imposter syndrome at some points,
but I also am putting myself out there more.
So I feel like that's a big part
of where I'm successful now
and in terms of how people treat me.
- I think that I do get treated better
only for the mere fact
that I think it helped with my confidence.
People are more attracted to me
'cause I seem like a happier person.
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- I think that everyone is born beautiful and perfect.
And if they look in the mirror and see something
that they are unhappy with
then they are allowed to change that and it's their body.
I think if you're gonna lie about it
and get a ton of work done
and say that you did it all naturally
through like a healthy diet or something, that's toxic.
- I see a lot of discourse about plastic surgery,
like whether for or against it.
But it's really just a form of body modification.
And if you do it for you
and you don't do it for some type of outside validation,
I think it's perfectly fine.
- There's just so many layers to it.
It could go more of like a culture thing.
It's trendy for certain women
to get a certain type of body feature
that is prominent in other women.
That's a topic for debate.
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- My nose job was pretty simple
because they didn't break any bones in my nose.
Like, the slope of my nose is the same.
They mostly just made my nose thinner
and they brought the bottom part up.
So I wasn't really nervous.
I was just excited.
- Brazilian butt lifts
are the most dangerous surgery you can have
because there's so many things that can go wrong.
I understood the risks.
I did a lot of research
and I knew that my doctor is a super safe doctor.
I didn't even tell my parents.
My mom's a nurse.
If she knew that I was gonna get a BBL, oh my God,
she would have freaked out.
- I wasn't really afraid.
I might be afraid next time 'cause I wasn't prepared.
But the first time, I wasn't afraid.
I was happy.
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- No I didn't.
- I luckily didn't have any complications.
I was super duper anal about doing everything I could
post-op to make sure I was prepared
because this was the most painful experience I've ever had.
And it was also like the most expensive.
The only competition that I could think of
was that I had incisions near my pubic mound
and they kept closing,
I guess, 'cause I kept swelling up.
So they had to keep opening up my incisions over and over
so they could drain my fluid out.
And that hurt a lot.
- Not everyone heals the same.
I was walked hunched over like in a wheelchair
because I couldn't walk upright.
- My recovery was pretty decent
because they didn't pack my nose,
meaning they didn't cut me open and flip it open,
break my bones and my cartilage,
and then put like packing literally in my nose,
which makes recovery a lot more painful.
I bruised under my eyes, had a bit of swelling.
It was hard to breathe.
It was uncomfortable, but ultimately not terrible.
- It was definitely like the most painful experience
I ever had.
I had my boobs done last year
and I thought it would be a walk in the park,
and it really wasn't.
Like, my arms were leaking and like covered in blood.
My stomach was like leaking and my butt was leaking.
So I was generally uncomfortable.
And I was generally like really soggy.
I had a lot of incisions.
I have like them in my armpits and other places.
It's been three months since my BBL surgery
and I still haven't sat.
I pee standing up, poop standing up.
I go to dinners with my BBL pillow.
So this is my BBL pillow.
I would sit and my butt would hover right there.
Putting any pressure on my hips or butt
kind of risks killing that fat.
So I'm gonna try to see if I can go
six to eight months to a year without sitting.
- I think the whole trying to go to the bathroom
and you can't walk upright
but you have to go to the bathroom to clean yourself.
I would recommend to anybody,
especially if you're like a single woman by yourself
to go look into some type of aftercare program.
I think the scarring was one of the things
I wasn't expecting to have.
Getting a mini tummy tuck,
it'd probably be equivalent to a C-section scar.
But if you get a regular tummy tuck,
it's gonna be from your hip to hip.
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- If plastic surgery is something
that you've thought about for a while
that you think would make you feel better about yourself
and improve your life,
I absolutely encourage you to get plastic surgery.
- If you have the money and if you have the time
and if you have a support system
to look exactly the way you want to look,
whether it be plastic surgery or tattoos or piercings
or any type of body modification
so that you could represent yourself the way you want to,
you should do it.
- I know nurses, I know cops,
I know a lot of people who are not in the limelight
who decided to go with plastic surgery.
I don't think that you should beat yourself up
if you want to make yourself feel better about yourself.
It's okay.
A lot of people do it.
- I encourage you to think about it,
ask yourself why, ask yourself where that desire comes from
and what you think it will bring to your life.
I know people who have gotten plastic surgery
and regretted it,
but I'm super happy since I had my rhinoplasty
and I would wish the same comfort and happiness
for others people.
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