Major plastic surgery and cosmetic procedures are relatively common in the entertainment
industry. And while breast implants seem to be popping up everywhere, many stars have
chosen to peace out on their upgrades. Here are famous faces who are now living it up,
au naturel.
Pamela Anderson first became famous for her body, and, of course, her breasts, which were
a result of implants. As her story goes, she was discovered on a jumbotron at a football
game, starred in a commercial, shot for Playboy, and the rest is pretty much history.
"I haven't had the opportunity to express myself (laugh)"
Anderson went on to cover Playboy a whopping 14 times — the most in history — and earned
further fame for her controversial antics in her personal life, and for her role as
blonde bombshell lifeguard, C.J. Parker, on Baywatch.
"Ooh yeah"
But the actress eventually decided to get her implants removed. She told Entertainment
Tonight in 1999,
"There were no medical problems. There was no reason why I took them out. […] I've
been thinking about it for a long time. I feel like I'm a petite person and just having
these large breasts was, it just didn't feel right anymore. I just didn't feel like it
looked very good. I was really kind of being self-conscious of it."
When it comes to Victoria Beckham's girls, People magazine reported,
"She's visibly gone up [and down] in cup sizes over the years, and ended up really regretting
it."
The former Spice Girl sat down with Allure in 2014 and looked through old photos of herself,
commenting,
"I don't have [those breasts] anymore. I think I may have purchased them. Or they got removed,
one or the other."
"I'm giving you everything…all that joy can bring"
The former singer and current fashion mogul was willing to open up a little more while
penning a message to her younger self in 2017 for Vogue UK, where she said,
"Don't mess with your boobs. All those years I denied it, stupid. A sign of insecurity.
Just celebrate what you've got."
"It's a journey. And Victoria Beckham learned a lot from that look"
Actress, celebrity cook, and wife of NBA player Steph Curry, Ayesha Curry invested in some
implants after breastfeeding, but has since had a change of heart. She told Working Mother
in 2019,
"I didn't realize at the time, but after having [my second daughter] Ryan, I was battling
a bit of postpartum that lingered for a while. It came in the form of me being depressed
about my body…So I made a rash decision."
"Drama, drama, drama”
The host of Ayesha's Home Kitchen claims that she originally intended to just get a lift,
but ended up with something she didn't want, adding,
"I got the most botched boob job on the face of the planet. They’re worse now than they
were before. I would never do anything like that again, but I’m an advocate of if something
makes you happy, who cares about the judgment?"
Obviously still feeling that vibe in May 2020, Curry took to Instagram to post a photo of
herself in a two-piece bathing suit, and of course, score her own slam dunk.
These days, Yolanda Hadid may be best known as a reality TV star and the mother of models
Gigi and Bella Hadid, but she was once a model herself and indulged in a little plastic surgery
over the years to fine-tune her appearance. But she's since parted ways with her implants.
She posted on Instagram in 2019,
"Finally back to the original 1964. Living in a body free of breast implants, fillers,
Botox, [extensions], and all the bulls--- I thought I needed in order to keep up with
what society conditioned me to believe [was] what a…woman should look like, until the
toxicity of it all almost killed me."
"I was just like trying to be one with the universe and just going like ok just take
me I cannot live one more day with this pain"
The star also opened up about issues she'd had with her implants, writing for Bravo,
"I ruptured an implant 10 years ago in a water-skiing fall [and] the leakage from that incident
had travelled, over the years, through my body…[I had] a constant feeling of something
that was trying to kill me from the inside out."
"I don't remember what it's like to be normal."
Sharon Osbourne returned to her hosting gig on The View in October 2011 and revealed that
she had taken some time off because she had her implants removed. She later recalled on
The Talk,
"One morning I woke up and one of my boobies was kind of much longer than the other. […] So
I'm thinking, this isn't right."
Apparently, a surgeon discovered that one of her implants had, quote, "leaked into the
wall of [her] stomach." After the procedure, Sharon seemed to be pleased with the result,
admitting,
"I don't feel like I have a water bed laying on my chest anymore."
"I've just had my breasts redone, why would I retire?"
A year later, in November 2012, Osbourne revealed on The Talk that she'd since undergone a double
mastectomy as well as reconstructive surgery, explaining,
“I wasn’t diagnosed with [breast] cancer, but I had the gene and one of my breasts was
in a really bad state because of the implant…Never have [implants] by the way.”
At the peak of her fame in 2010, Heidi Montag famously had ten cosmetic surgeries done in
one day, including getting size F implants, which she told Us Weekly weighed roughly 3
pounds a piece.
"I actually wanted bigger ones, but they couldn't fit in"
But by 2013, she decided she was over her extreme look. She later told People magazine,
"They were so heavy they were falling through the skin. It was just too heavy for my body
and I was in pain and uncomfortable all the time. I thought, 'What do I need [these] big…breasts
for?'"
"My breasts hurt so bad, I just wanna like rip them off"
The former reality TV star also talked about the impact the procedures had on her whole
life, revealing,
"I had no idea what I was getting into or that it was a lifelong commitment. It was
very challenging, both physically, emotionally, spiritually, mentally, on my husband [Spencer
Pratt], and on our lives."
Montag admitted that the harsh consequence of her lifestyle, which included throwing
down major cash on things like the surgeries, was a quote, "turning point" for her and her
husband. Heidi added,
"Sometimes I can't believe I did that to us and to me. It's been a lot to overcome. I
don't want to say I regret it 100 percent because I've tried to grow from it."
"It was the hardest time of my life and I feel like I've become a lot stronger from
it"
Stevie Nicks has definitely faced her share of health-related issues in the past. For
instance, she told Billboard that, in the '80s, she was told that if she did any more
cocaine, she would, quote, "have a brain hemorrhage."
"I used, I used to carry a gram of cocaine in my boot. At all times."
Nicks also dealt with physical issues that she believes were related to her implants.
In 1994, the Grammy-winning Fleetwood Mac singer was experiencing increased exhaustion,
as People magazine noted, and although her condition was diagnosed as the effect of Epstein-Barr
virus, Nicks thought that the issue might have to do with her silicone implants, which
she'd gotten back in '76. She explained,
"Like cocaine, the whole world was getting [implants] back then, and everyone was told
they were safe. But I'm living proof that they aren't safe."
Nicks had even been told by a number of doctors that not only would it be painful to remove
her implants, it was also unnecessary. But when she insisted, and finally had them taken
out in the mid-'90s, she says their condition was very poor. With the implants out, the
outlet reported that Nicks' health was on the mend, which is why she's still thrilling
fans with her musically witchy ways today.
Melissa Gilbert may be best known for her role as Laura on Little House on the Prairie,
but even starring on such a wholesome show didn't prevent her from experiencing pressure
related to her body.
"It's never easy for anyone to grow up in the public eye, it's very difficult to grow
up as a child star."
In a December 2014 blog post, the actress opened up about getting implants, saying that
when she hit her teens, she was already getting the feeling from people around her that it
was better for her to have big breasts — even though she was content with her size. She
wrote:
"I really was happy with them. Small [A cups] but low maintenance."
But after having her son, Gilbert's A-cups grew while breastfeeding and then essentially
vanished afterward. It surely didn't help that her then-husband called her breasts…
"Socks full of marbles with knots at the top.'"
After they split, Gilbert had her boobs done. But at the time of the post in 2014, the star
filled her fans in on the fact that she was actually having her implants removed the following
week. She wrote,
"The bottom line…or top line…is that; A. I am concerned for my health and 2. I don't
like the way they look or feel. Frankly, I'd like to be able to take a Zumba class without
the fear that I'll end up with two black eyes."
"You only have so many anesthesias ahead of you. You're 85 years old and you need a hip
replacement, and you have to have new breast implants?"
Jenna Jameson is a writer, TV personality, and entrepreneur who found fame as an adult
film star. And, of course, there was plenty of attention focused on her body during her
career.
"I've done pretty much everything you can name"
But by 2007, she'd retired from the adult film industry, and also walked away from her
implants. The star opened up to Us Weekly about why she had undergone the, quote, "three-hour
surgery" that took her "from a D-cup to a C-up," saying,
"When I had implants, I felt uncomfortable. I would be shy at the beach. I know it sounds
funny, but I'd wear high-necked clothes, unless I was at an adult-film convention. So I thought,
Why don't I be who I am and get my real ones back?"
Once she was back to her usual self, she says she was thrilled, adding,
"The first thing I did when I got home was open my bra. I wasn't supposed to but I did.
I was so happy, I cried. It was like looking into the mirror when I was 17…Even for women
with naturally large boobs, getting a reduction is so freeing."
Jameson also addressed how removing her implants affects, or doesn't affect, her in another
way, according to Business Wire, saying,
"A woman's [sensuality] is not defined by the size of her bust. I absolutely love the
way I look and feel now. I am experiencing pure bliss for the first time in my life."
Fans of Glee will surely remember Heather Morris as Brittany Pierce, a cheerleader,
or, rather, a "Cheerio", at William McKinley High School. Morris also formerly worked as
a backup dancer for Beyoncé, which just goes to prove that she knows how to move her body.
And being able to continue to do so is, in part, why she told a staffer at Fitness in
2011 that she formerly had implants, but chose to take them out. She said,
"Implants were something I thought I wanted when I was younger, and now I don't. It was
hard being active with them, because my chest was always sore. It hurt a lot, and I didn't
like always being in pain, so they had to go!"
"I grew up dancing, but no ballroom. No ballroom."
Now that she can exercise without her implants causing her any pain, she revealed that she
was eager to give famed celebrity workout, The Tracy Anderson Method, a try. But with
a fellow famous actress, of course. Morris shared,
"Gwyneth Paltrow [who appeared on an episode of Glee in 2010] promised she'd take me, but
she's so busy that we've yet to go. Gwyneth has a killer body, so I'm willing to try whatever
she does to look like that!"
Chrissy Teigen's fans were surely wondering why the model posed topless on Instagram in
May 2020, but things quickly became clear in the caption, where she announced:
"I'm getting my boobs out! I'll still have boobs, they'll just be pure fat. Which is
all [they are] in the first place. A dumb, miraculous bag of fat."
Teigen also opened up to Glamour, explaining that she had first undergone a breast augmentation
when she was around 20, saying,
"It was more for a swimsuit thing. I thought, if I'm going to be posing, laid on my back,
I want them to be perky! But then you have babies and they fill up with milk and deflate
and now I am screwed."
To temporarily address the issue, she quote, "filled them out," but she said,
"You're supposed to replace [implants] every ten years…When you have kids you think about
[the risks] of surgery and I think, 'This is not the way I want to die, in boob surgery.'"
"I really prefer being happy. I just don't care about looking good in a swimsuit anymore."
On June 11th, 2020, the star took to Instagram again to share with her followers that her
surgery was a success. And although she was still in the midst of a painful recovery,
she shared an encouraging message from one of her biggest fans; a note from her daughter,
that read:
"Have fun pulling your boobies out. Love, Luna."
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