Anonymous wrote:I’m 48, happily married with three kids. My boobs have been reduced to flat pancakes after breastfeeding our kids for a total of four years. The youngest is 7 so I think I’ve given my body enough of a chance to “bounce” back and the boobs are just not budging. I’m in great shape otherwise.

I would love to get conservative implants, just so my clothes fit the way they used to. I don’t even necessarily want a bigger bra size, I just want more fullness.

DH thinks this is crazy. He thinks anyone wanting plastic surgery is vain and almost mentally ill. It’s not a financial issue.

WWYD?

Anonymous wrote:Fake boobs are low class. In case you care about that.

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Anonymous wrote:I got them at 37 after having three kids.

I’ve had no issues at all, easy recovery, look great. I’m small and fit and went with 325 cc as I was in a similar place- just empty skin bags from breastfeeding. I’m glad I did this!

OP is 48

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Anonymous wrote:I got them at 37 after having three kids.

I’ve had no issues at all, easy recovery, look great. I’m small and fit and went with 325 cc as I was in a similar place- just empty skin bags from breastfeeding. I’m glad I did this!

OP is 48

Anonymous wrote:I got them at 37 after having three kids.

I’ve had no issues at all, easy recovery, look great. I’m small and fit and went with 325 cc as I was in a similar place- just empty skin bags from breastfeeding. I’m glad I did this!

Anonymous wrote:I had mine done last fall after having three babies in under five years. I had enough "before" pictures in bikinis so that the surgeon knew exactly what I wanted and nothing more. Fitness training helped the rest of my body get back into pre-baby shape. My husband was supportive but only after we did a lot of risk research. He is now very happy that I'm back to my pre-baby shape.

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Anonymous wrote:You're 48. Get a good bra. Not worth messing with your overall health for this.

I sort of wish I'd gotten mine done at 35, but now I'm 53 and let's just say the importance of looking cute naked has gone down for me.

But glad I don't have another thing in my life to be worried about health-wise. Also, not a great example for my daughter. (My mom got implants when I was a teenager, and it was weird and made me judge her and my own situation differently - which is probably why I didn't do it.)

This is often underlooked as a side effect of these surgeries. We spend so much time teaching our children (daughters especially) that their worth is not in their looks and their body. That they don't need to alter their body to appeal to other people. So what kind of message does it send when they see their parents doing all sorts of different surgeries to alter themselves to make them more attractive to other people? It's totally backwards.

Personally, I think a one off surgery to correct something you dislike is ok and can be rationalized, but I do think about this with people who are constantly going under the knife and tweaking themselves in an endless pursuit of some kind of perfection. I always think about this looking at pics of Ivanka with her constantly changing face and body. Poor Arabella looks a lot like her originally before the gazillion surgeries and has to be getting the message that's totally unacceptable.

Anonymous wrote:Sometimes the scarring is pretty bad. Depends on the procedure. I know a woman with scars that look like crucifixes.

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Anonymous wrote:You're 48. Get a good bra. Not worth messing with your overall health for this.

I sort of wish I'd gotten mine done at 35, but now I'm 53 and let's just say the importance of looking cute naked has gone down for me.

But glad I don't have another thing in my life to be worried about health-wise. Also, not a great example for my daughter. (My mom got implants when I was a teenager, and it was weird and made me judge her and my own situation differently - which is probably why I didn't do it.)

This is often underlooked as a side effect of these surgeries. We spend so much time teaching our children (daughters especially) that their worth is not in their looks and their body. That they don't need to alter their body to appeal to other people. So what kind of message does it send when they see their parents doing all sorts of different surgeries to alter themselves to make them more attractive to other people? It's totally backwards.

Personally, I think a one off surgery to correct something you dislike is ok and can be rationalized, but I do think about this with people who are constantly going under the knife and tweaking themselves in an endless pursuit of some kind of perfection. I always think about this looking at pics of Ivanka with her constantly changing face and body. Poor Arabella looks a lot like her originally before the gazillion surgeries and has to be getting the message that's totally unacceptable.

Nah, it starts with the first one, but it very rarely ends there. And even if it is "just" the boobs at 40-45, it's the redo at 50-55, etc... There aren't a whole lot of truly "one and done" cosmetic procedures.

And pp's point about what it does to a daughter to watch her mother become someone else, while the kid is being told how beautiful she is as her natural self... that's chillingly accurate. We already have the first generation of kids raised by surgically-altered parents, and it's not great when you consider their self-esteem. More surgery isn't likely to improve their mental health!