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Friday, February 09, 2007

New Year, New Boobs

I literally flew into Arizona, got new boobs, rested for a week and then attended the action-packed Sundance Film Festival. I was in and out of surgery so quick it was like I ordered a soy latte to go.

My best friend and her crew had all been to this particular doctor post breastfeeding. And that's exactly what I was doing ... getting some substance back! There were no body image issues. In fact I could have survived life with my five-inch thick gel bra to support my size A, but the thought of being a B+/C- sounded fun. This was my moment of living dangerously.

I must say three weeks after the operation I'm really happy. They feel so real and a part of me that I can barely remember what I was before. Mind you I can clearly remember the before photos hanging up as I was being put down on the operating table and shouting out, "those photos are exactly why I'm here!"

Size was certainly the biggest factor when I told my friends I was having this done. Because I'm thin they ALL kept saying to me don't go any bigger than a B or else I was going to look like Victoria Beckham with half grapefruits mounted on her chest. That did scare me a little so I made sure even if I pushed it to a little C that they would still look natural ... well as natural as you can look with fake boobs!

I certainly don't want to make a boob job sound so easy when there are many factors to consider. That's why it's important to see a top notch doctor with amazing references you trust. And even then there are still no guarantees of everything working out. I have a few friends who have had serious problems with their implants and it hasn't been a fun road for them. It's definitely a risk ... and I took it knowingly.

I can't believe on the day I got my stitches out (which was seven days after the op) I asked the doctor if I could participate in VW's off road racing challenge at the Sundance Film Festival - a 45 minute grueling race! When he said, "No way!", it still didn't stop me from drumming up a plan to strap, tape and support my breasts in a way that would make it work. That thought lasted until I had visions of my new breasts at the bottom of VW Toureg - not to mention that I would have had no ability to steer the car with severed chest muscles! And besides my husband should see them before such a thing happened!

When I finally got home Jack's reaction was something like, "They're fantastic, they're FAAAntastic, they're FANtastic!!" Men and boobs ... little do they know we do it for ourselves!

posted by Roxy Lee & The Girlfriends at 1:38 PM

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