I've had four boob jobs in 27 years, two rounds of capsular contracture, a $30,000 lesson, and a little pig holding one of them together. And I'd do it all again.
Four breast augmentations. Two rounds of capsular contracture, the complication they make sound rarer than it is. A thirty-thousand-dollar mistake I made because I thought I knew better than my surgeon, a boob job recovery nobody prepares you for, and an honest, no-shame conversation about breast implant illness (BII).
This is everything I wish someone had told me before my first breast implants: the receipts, the regrets I don't have, and what I'd actually do if I were you, from booking a breast augmentation to deciding whether to take your implants out.
In this episode:
- Why I got my first set almost 30 years ago, and what the itty bitty titty committee had to do with it
- The capsular contracture that hit me twice, on the lowest-risk setup there is
- The $30,000 lesson, and the pig that finally fixed it
- How I picked my plastic surgeon, and the five consults that saved my result
- The truth about cup size nobody tells you before you book
- The boob job recovery reality the glossy before-and-afters leave out
- Where I land on breast implant illness and breast implant removal, without the fear-mongering or the dismissing
- The one time my gut said no, and six months later the FDA agreed
- If you've got breast implants, you're researching a breast augmentation, or you've got a set and you're weighing breast implant removal, this one's for you.
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What is I'd Like To Thank Myself ?
We thank everyone else for our success... friends, team, mentors. But when’s the last time you thanked the only person who actually dragged you through hell and back?
YourSELF.
This show is my love letter to the version of you who doesn’t get enough credit. The you who kept going when it would’ve been easier to quit.
I’m pulling back the curtain on what it actually looks like to be 48, building a skincare company, navigating perimenopause, raising a teenager, and refusing to become invisible.
The stuff nobody talks about after 40. And how I’m rewriting all of it.
Sometimes it’s just me. Sometimes it’s founders, creatives, and icons who’ve rewritten everything too. Always, it’s the raw truth.
Nothing filtered. Nothing softened. Nothing for show. Just the truth... and a drink.
Every episode ends the same way: we raise a glass and say the thing most people are too humble to admit: I’d like to thank mySELF.