![]() ![]() ![]() On the Politics of Plastic Surgery Like Lipo, Tummy Tucks, and More I couldn’t work out until six weeks post-op. Back to work, being present with my family, taking care of my daughter and husband. It took about three weeks for me to get back to my regular schedule. After two weeks, for example, I was back to driving. To be honest, my pain was manageable - it wasn’t excruciating, so I just took ibuprofen. I had some bad days, feeling tired and sore, but overall my post-op was bearable. I knew I couldn’t stay down, because I had a toddler. But how do I get rid of it?” My surgeon was like, “Okay, surgery is how you get rid of it.” If he would have told me to do something else, I would have done something else. But it just got to a point where I was like, “I know I don’t want to have any more kids, so this flabby skin has gotta go. After my daughter, I had to get used to the way my body looked. Prior to having my daughter, I didn’t have saggy skin. You have some people who purposely want the BBLs and all of that and they want to look a certain way based on what they see on TV and stuff. People usually bring pictures of celebrities, but I brought an old photo of myself before I had my daughter. It’s so funny because, in this process, they ask you to bring pictures of your inspiration for what you want done. I told both of my doctors that I wanted to look natural. I think looking natural was also important to me because I didn’t want my daughter or husband to see me differently. I get that it is hypocritical of me to talk about BBLs in such a way, but the complications and risks of that are very different from what I got done. I had three or four prayer calls with my stepfather, who is a minister, just to calm my nerves around having anesthesia. I had anxiety, especially about me not waking up from the anesthesia. And the breast reduction, for which they lipo’d a little bit of my boobs, was in October 2021. Basically, I got the “mommy makeover,” but I split it into two surgeries: a tummy tuck and lipo out of my flanks and in my stomach, in October 2022. With the weight I had lost, I was disproportionate - it was too heavy. I had a breast reduction because I was uncomfortable. I felt validated when I went to the surgeon and he said my body became the way it was because of my labor. I had been feeling like I was doing a lot of work dieting and exercising and was not seeing results. I had a lot of fat on my flanks, so he went in and lipo’d my hips, basically. Parker said it doesn’t matter how many crunches you do, you’re never gonna get abs back unless I go in and reconstruct your muscles. Her reasoning for getting surgery was very similar to mine.ĭr. I actually ended up going based on a recommendation from my closest friend who has one daughter, too, and looked totally different after pregnancy. For the amount that I was working out, it didn’t make sense. I dieted for two years and lost, like, 60 pounds, but I had loose skin in my stomach because of my weight loss. ![]()
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