Lovelyish

i would. but i think i’m just gonna stick to the actual plastic surgery. once this baby is born and i get back to my pre preg weight i’m getting breast implants, no matter what anyone says. i’ve never been happy with my boobs because they’ve always been small but since i had my first son they just kind of…deflated haha. so i want them for me, i want to fix them. and i will. there’s nothing wrong with it at all. if you’re comfortable doing it, i’d do it.

Nope. I don’t need it

I was thinking about this the other day!  lol.  I was working out and I was thinking wouldn’t it just be the shiz if I can take the fat out of my gut and arms and shift it to my breasts and booty and hips.  Then my body would be like BOW BOW BOW.  But then I thought that I’d be risking my life for an unnecessary surgical procedure, and should probably just take care of what I have instead.

At the end of the day though, you have to do what’s right for you.

If you are going to do this, do get off WIC. Really. And then consider your options once you’re off WIC. Can you afford to be off WIC? If the answer is, again, “technically,” then you shouldn’t even consider doing this surgery.
23 is kinda old for modeling, I hate to say. There are always opportunities, but the next time you hit a marketable age, it will be for things like Coldwater Creek or what have you. Things that are supposed to appeal to an older set.
I am saying I would not. I am saying that I would judge you if you did, while you were supplementing your income. I know this is a dream of yours, and I don’t know what to say. Perhaps a really fantastic push up for looks and the public, because it’s obvious your husband likes you just as you are, as, hopefully, do you.

Yeah, if you can afford any sort of cosmetic surgery, you should stop draining federal money and using WIC.

At your age you’re too old for the modeling industry already, so by the time  you’ve saved enough money, and the time you get this, and the time you heal, you’ll be 24-25?

Frankly, if you’re so broke you need WIC or other assistance, get yourself back on planet earth, and save that money for, I don’t know, your family. “I can’t go to college because mom needed bigger tits”. Super harsh, but it from this post, it sounds like you need to get your priorities in check.

Again, frankly, it sounds like you’re living paycheck to paycheck, barely scraping by. I can’t fathom how any person couldn’t have enough money left over for any sort of savings and think “I’m gonna get plastic surgery!”. Plastic surgery is not a priority, especially if it’s over something as minor as wanting slightly bigger breasts. Emergency funds? Yes. A savings account? Yes. A college fund for your kids? Yes. A retirement fund? Yes. Bigger knockers? No. Imagine the guilt you’re gonna feel if you have some sort of emergency and you’re broke… well, if that happens and you have a bigger chest you’d probably pull more money in at a strip club but no one wants to end up there, right?

No one, yourself included, will ever be perfect. We will have bad skin, or big thighs, be too short, or too tall or small breasts. We will try to hide these imperfections. Even with plastic surgery, you will still feel insecure. It won’t fix issues that are already there. Work on your confidence; you wrote that you work out, on that basis alone, you’re probably more attractive than the majority of people out there.

I like my body enough to not consider plastic surgery, and plus, the money I have saved up is going to grad school. I’ve accepted that I’ll never look like the models in the magazines because they haven’t invented real-life Photoshop yet.

modelling is a short lived thing, and you’re nearing the end of the road

get a degree. 
get a job.
get your kid in a good school.
leave your body alone.

It sounds nice in theory, because I’m a bit Pear-ish myself, but I would never get it.

It sounds a bit like you really only want this for your job, though, and if you’re almost to your mid-twenties and a model, what’s the point? I wouldn’t recommend wasting the money that you really don’t have right now unless it was for a medical reason. If, in the future, you still want it, go for it! But now, especially if it’s for your job, I wouldn’t say it’s a good idea :/

Honestly, I’ve loved to have a procedure like this done. However, I know I won’t be able to until I graduate college and have enough money, so I’m holding to that idea. In your case, do what you’re happy, but don’t drag other people into it to have it like your boyfriend -who pays most of the bills- and other tax payers and don’t expect to use it to step up your modeling career, because as you said, you’re 23 already. Save up until you can afford the surgery and other expenses financially completely on your own, then do what you want without guilt. Until then, let’s hope this desire for bigger boobs and “even-out-ed” body go away. Your hips are to die for

I’m not sure I would (I’m already a D cup or DD cup in some brands) but this at least seems a little safer than having something foreign in your body.  Though I wouldn’t complain if I could donate some of my butt/thigh/stomach fat to somebody less fortunate.  

I’d do it if I had the fat. I’m skinny. My womanly parts are curved enough but one could always add to it. :p But if I had a kid and wasn’t making much, I’d not spend time even wanting that kind of surgery. Harsh as it may sound coming from people who don’t know you… especially as you say you’re only considering and you understand you can’t stay on WIC if you go ahead… but the smarter thing to do would be to forget it for the foreseeable future and do it when you have the extra money and your son has some money set aside for his future. I won’t even address the modelling thing. It depends on what kind of modelling you do.

I haven’t heard of the stereotypical muscular asians calves until this blog most of the younger asians that I’ve seen are petite with skinny chicken legs, such as mine, and the big calves were the older and chubbier 40-ish women. anyway, I wouldn’t get any vanity surgeries and only necessary sugeries. when I had my wisdom teeth surgery, I freaked out and felt like I was going to bleed to death, even when it was only for a day, I just didn’t like seeing the blood when I changed the gauze blood absorber cotton, so a vanity surgery will probably make me panic for safety reasons. then I worry about looking worse or having possible bad side effects that will take more money to reverse or might even leave scars. the fat transferring seems like a quick procedure that you can probably quickly recover from like getting botox during lunchtime and going back to work as if nothing happened. I know some women with breast implants and it is so obvious and fake, and now they are probably referred to as the girl with the fake boobs as mean as that sounds, but that’s what the guys that I know secretly label girls as when they see a girl with fake boobs pass by. I’m not sure how realistic looking this fat transferring to the boobs will look like though, but wouldn’t they sag if fat was injected into the already B cups^_^ if the person can easily afford it, then go for it. if it would be on a tight budget, it isn’t economically sound. to each their own.

Oh, come on. This is ridiculous. It’s ridiculous, period, but it’s even more ridiculous that you’re contemplating doing it while on WIC. The purpose of WIC is to help people who work damn hard & can’t make ends meet, not to supplement a person’s income while she gets a boob job in the hopes that she can pursue a modeling pipe dream. Put the money in savings for, say, the future – a down-payment on a house or a car, paying off credit cards or student loans, putting your kid through college – or, hey, for the present, like buying food & stuff. If you can afford to save up for a frivolous, unnecessary vanity surgery, you should NOT be receiving government assistance – and even if you decide to do this while not on WIC, it’s a pretty selfish way to spend your money. Sounds like you need to take a look at your priorities.

150 years ago plastic surgery didn’t exist.  When people didn’t like their bodies, they dealt with it.  And they were much, much happier then because they learned to accept themselves, and their partners accepted them as they were because there wasn’t another option.

Sometimes, I really think that America was much better during prairie-style days.

Nothing wrong with it. I’m getting fat transfer to my face next month, along with a nosejob. However, be careful about what surgeon you go to for this. Fat transfer does not seem widely approved yet in the U.S. for breast enlargement. I have heard of a small study in Europe that said fat transfer to breasts should not affect mammogram effectiveness, but still be weary. I can completely relate to feeling weird about the idea of a “foreign object” implanted into your body for cosmetic reasons. It just would never feel real.

if I had the funds I’d do this in a heartbeat.

Everyone has a few things that they would like to change about their bodies, and it seems that once you start to pick that scab, it never heals– if you want to be really beautiful, go put a smile on SOMEONE ELSE’S face.

Got a beautiful baby boy? Go play with him! He loves you exactly how you are. ^_^

Best of luck!

how much does it usually cost? Id deffff do it! 

@wild_humm@xanga - haha yeah.

is this real? 
@SuburbanSweetheart - agree. 
But, I’ll put it a different way. 
Wants vs. Needs, Dollface I’m 19. I can’t say much because I don’t even make my own money, yet. But, you’re getting older. Saving up or making a few dollars more, getting off WIC finally, still won’t mean you’re financially stable enough for such a big WANT. This is your first kid? Do you plan on having any  more? (you probably don’t. But, just in case, do think about this.)If I didn’t have a fresh 50k in my savings (and NOT in stock,) and a job pushing in over 40k a year (untaxed,) of MY OWN MONEY, COMPLETELY independent of whoever I was married to, I wouldn’t do this. And I had BETTER not have any financial obligations if I did. It’s perfectly fine to want this. But, you’ll be fine without. Carry on!

@lonelystrangergirl@xanga - Well said!

@MoonFaeEyryan@xanga - agree 100%.

i’d maybe use the money to raise your son, rather than going for self-indulgent things.
i don’t have much on top OR bottom, but i’m not about to hit up any plastic surgeons to start rectifying everything i perceive to be wrong with my body.
you may think that just because you’re not getting silicone implants put in your chest that you’re not technically having ‘plastic surgery’, but i’m sorry to say that this is. if you are undergoing surgery for appearance reasons, and not a medical one, it is considered cosmetic surgery.
why would you willingly put yourself in hospital when you’ve got a six-month-old that needs taking care of?
please wake up and realise that we as women all have issues with our bodies at some point and some of us can afford to get cosmetic procedures done, but do not.
i am also only a B-cup, and i couldn’t give a toss. what am i going to do with huge tits anyway? your boyfriend evidently doesn’t have a problem with you, or he wouldn’t be your boyfriend, so please focus your time, energy and money on your child.

I’ve heard of this but I didn’t think it was real. To tell you the truth, if i could transfer some of my thigh fat to my ass, I soooo would! I have hugeee thighs and I hate them. If I could donate fat to the less fortunate, I would do that too.

He’s working 10 hour days, plus WIC on top of that, and you want what?!?!

How much is it? 

Also, I have a 34AA and I think you should be thankful for what you do have. 

Okay I am going to tell everyone this as a medical professional.. YOU DON’T LOSE FAT. You are born with x amount of fat cells, and those fat cells stay in your body your whole life. When you get fat, those cells get BIGGER. When you lose weight, those fat cells get SMALLER. So if you lose weight, yeah your boobs are going to shrink because the cells will shrink… If you don’t lose a lot of weight, I doubt it will come from your breasts since breasts have different fat tissue than the rest of your body.

I am not going to even bother commenting on the rest because I just find the whole thing ridiculous.

I wish I was a B cup, not for the vanity of it but you know, so many stores sell their lingerie at the standard B cup and I am wayyyy too cheap sometimes for lingerie. But I wouldn’t do any surgery. 

@Itinvolvedwhippedcream@xanga - Lol. I’d pray to be in another era. Everything was so cool back then.

From what I read, I would say you like the idea but the circumstances are not right.
There would be benefits from that surgery but also disadvantages.
I don’t feel like you could live with those disadvantages well enough.

Maybe you should give that decision some more time but it really seems to me that there are too many doubts to go through with it.

But good luck anyway =)

You’re on government assistance and you’re considering plastic surgery? Disgusting. If you have enough money to consider paying for a completely frivolous and unnecessary surgery, you should NOT be receiving any financial aid from the government and the taxpayer. Look after your son and focus on importance things – the future, his education, sorting your life out and getting a proper job, for example.

I’m not considering any kind of surgery. I’m going to keep me the way God made me.

To those who are being judgemental and ASSUMING I am some sort of government leech, stop picking and choosing what you read.  You all must have forgotten to read the part where I said:

I feel if I can afford fat transfer surgery (whether in payments or not) I shouldn’t even be getting WIC assistance any more.  I hate seeing people who go out and buy a whole bunch of expensive things while on every sort of government assistance, so I wouldn’t want to get an unnecessary surgery while getting WIC. 

or the part where I said:

For now, it’s just a consideration…

Right?  Right.  Okay then.  I am only on WIC (not any other assistance) and WIC only pays for about a half a month’s worth of formula (because I wasn’t blessed with the gift of being able to breastfeed), and the rest is out of MY pocket.

As for implying I need to be financially responsible, let me tell you something – I work two jobs (one is full time, the other is very part time – like 8 hours a month) AND I go to school.  But I am only making about $8.50/hr, which is pretty much nothing, because I decided to sacrifice financially so I can work at a daycare and be around my son.  Oh, and I am paying for school out of pocket too – MINE, not my boyfriend’s.  My son has an account that I set up just for his college education, and both my boyfriend and I have life insurance, so my son will be taken care of just fine.  I also have an “emergency” and regular savings account that I put money into – what little is left after necessities are taken care of.  My boyfriend makes pretty good money, but I would never use that money for a fat transfer, or any other thing I would want for myself.  Hence why I said:

SO I am trying to wait as long as possible for the surgery so I can actually be able to afford everything. 

So next time you want to throw stones and act all high and mighty, just remember to look at all 4 angles of the square.

I understand where you’re coming from.

When I was younger, I may have seriously considered getting fat transfer, but I don’t think it is something I would do at this moment in my life.  This decision only came after a lot of soul searching.  I used to have an eating disorder that I worked hard to eliminate from my life.  After I had my son, my breasts went from a 32C to a 32DDD/F (they were actually bigger right after he was born, they shrank to a DDD).  I fantasized about getting my breasts reduced, but decided to work on accepting my body as it is.  If I were to get my breasts reduced to a more reasonable size for my frame, I’d only obsess about some other body part (lipo on my thighs, butt, stomach, arms, back, fingers….you get the picture).  However, you are not me. If you think that getting surgery will make you feel happy, then go for it.

i didn’t know this really existed. idk, i’d like to take the fat from my thighs and put it. in my boobs, i guess. really i’d like to just take the fat out of my thighs. and off of my body lol

@la_femme_inconnue@xanga - I concur

@ThaPlatinumOne@xanga - I kind of wondered how so many people missed that. I don’t know, I wouldn’t do it, because surgery scares me, and I would think that your body would eventually go back to where it collected fat in the first place. But who knows? Anyway, best of luck!

I had actually been looking into it myself as well, and I’ll probably be doing it in 5 or 6 years or so, so hopefully it’s all approved and such by then. It’s two surgeries then bigger boobs for life. I’m super excited

lol and all those girls saying to love yourself, yup okay do that, I’m off to go get the finest body I can bye bye A cups! Have fun with your insecurities while I’ll be off correcting them and not worrying about it.

It appears that a lot of people just read that you were on WIC and decided to go off on a rant. People need to READ the whole thing.

Someone, who went off on a rant about how she’s on government assistant and wanting surgery, please point out where she said she was DEFINITELY going to do the surgery? Please, enlighten me. Because, I DIDN’T SEE THAT. She is CONSIDERING it, but went through a lot of pros-cons. We all do that when thinking about doing something, but that doesn’t mean we just go out and do it.

Good grief. READ.

MoonFaeEyryan@xanga - completely agree.

I actually read the whole thing. But you should of known better to be putting you are WIC in your post about considering a surgery. Putting something like that even if the person read the entire thing like me would have some critism to give. I would say dont even begin to consider it until you are financially stable, off WIC, and wait until your son is older so that taking care of him after a surgery would be a little easier. Right now all you should worry about is your son not your breast size. Honestly a B-cup isn’t even super tiny. It’s actually a really average size.

Like a few people hae said, it’s harsh, but by the time you can afford it, it won’t really be worth it anyway since you’re pushing it with your age for your modeling career. :/

@ThaPlatinumOne@xanga - I don’t think anyone is being high or mighty. You posted that you were considering it – and you got responses from people telling you what else they think you should consider. If you didn’t want opinions, you shouldn’t have written this piece for Lovelyish.

Did having your child make a difference in your breast size? Some women gain almost everywhere but the chest, and if they are still carrying baby weight in their belly, legs, hips, etc. the breasts look smaller in comparison to the rest of the body. I’d say think about it for a very long time before considering anything drastic. See how you feel in a year. Maybe in the meantime you could invest in a nice push up bra to accentuate what you do have. There’s bras out there that can push you up to two sizes larger, without the cost, pain, scarring, and recovery of surgery.

As long as you won’t regret it in the future! (: I’m a 34A, and I’m happy with it. But when I tell someone that I’m fine with it they go “EW, you’re as flat as a landing strip.” HAHA

I have been considering implants. I was even supposed to have a consultation yesterday, but I canceled it last week – just like you, I’m not crazy about having something foreign in my body. I wanted to consider the fat transfer, but for some reason it seems scarier/riskier – not sure why because I have done NO research on fat transfer (maybe I will have to contact you when I am considering it again).

I love that you said you would wait until you are off government help. My boyfriend is a pharmacist and he sees people come in on medicaid who have iPhones, leave in nice cars, have brand clothing, etc. It makes no sense and it’s always refreshing to hear someone who uses it carefully and has reason. Good for you.

I am also glad you love your body – I am close to accepting mine, it’s been a long journey. I, too, would prefer a handful on top… we shall see…

good luck!

@o0_Innocent_0o@xanga - I am so glad you can laugh at that! I would honestly be so hurt if someone told me that! And people wonder why others have body issues – I am glad it hasn’t affected you! 

@ninety_day_dream@xanga - To be honest, when I first heard it, I was pissed. But then it’s my body and it’s just what I was born with. They don’t have to look at me if there’s nothing for them to see. As long as you’re happy with what you do with no regrets, then whatever floats your boat!  

@SuburbanSweetheart - I understand.  However, giving an opinion on what they would do or what they think I should do is completely different from calling me disgusting (or using other words) or implying I am a bad mother.  THAT is what got me upset. 

Fat transfer = lumpy (but bigger) boobs.

Forget the surgery, the insane amounts of money, and possible trauma related to all of this.

Save your money, your body, and your sanity and work out.

Combine eating right with working out; this will result in a healthy body image as well as an amazing sense of power and love for yourself.

♥

I think it should only be considered if it would otherwise save your life most likely. 

There is so much wrong here, I don’t even know where to begin.

You’re on WIC. You have a boyfriend who stayed with you and cares about you. Your body isn’t even bad. Some people really need plastic surgery because they have breasts that are 2 cup sizes different (like one is an A and the other is C), and your insecurities are unfounded with normal B cups (unless they are totally deflated from breastfeeding). You have a baby to take care of so if you model, so it’d be harder to break into high-end modeling and most of those girls start when they are 15.

@Itinvolvedwhippedcream@xanga - lol, but the average life expectancy was around 40.

@mycontinuity@xanga - Yeah.  I really only wear a B cup because that way it won’t fit so tight around my ribs. And yeah, they do start high fashion modeling pretty young.  I started at like, 17 actually.  I was a senior in high school. 

I think that if you eventually come up with the funds and right circumstances, and it will make you feel better about YOU, then go for it. But if it’s mainly for the modeling career, by the time you can afford it you’d be at least 25; that’s like old grandmother in modeling years.

But do what you think is best for yourself. Your gut is generally right, so trust it when the time comes.

My best friend has huge breasts and I’m a B-cup, and we always say that whenever she goes to get them reduced, that I could have it to get mine enhanced.

You seem to have put a lot of thought into this. I would say that you need to do what feels right. What’s the return on this surgery? What are you getting out of it? Putting all that money into it, is changing the way you feel about yourself going to be enough of a benefit?

I would get a fat transfer from my boobs and stomach to put in my butt. I would think that would be very uncomfortable to sleep with bandages on both my front and back since I usually sleep on my stomach, and sleeping on my side is not that comfortable. I wouldn’t do it with a infant though.

I am in no way against formula, but I will say that I was always a low B in the chesticles and because of my decision to breastfeed, i’m a nice D. Just sayin’

Hey there lovely,

I’m like you in three ways 1) I can’t afford plastic surgery 2) I don’t want anything plastic in me, anyway! 3) but I still would like to change in a “natural” way.  And also like you the only thing I would change about me is my boobs!  Everything else, even though I’m far from perfect, I’m perfectly happy with…

I’m the kind of person though that when I have my mind made up and want to do it I find anything in my power to get it, lol..So I am getting fat transfer breast implants in 3 weeks, now, using body jet lipo on my stomach (I’m gaining weight for the procedure, I’m 106 and I want to be 115, maybe) in succession with a brava-like device called Noogleberry for a couple weeks before hand (while Brava is what 1,000? 2,000?  Noogleberry is about 75). 

And as far as the $ part I went through this website called Myfreeimplants.com and raised all of my money from there.  Yes, some of the girls sell their nakey pictures for $, but you don’t have to do that and many have not.  You can just be yourself, write lots of blogs, and connect with people. I raised 5,500 in about 6 months.  There are people who have done it in 3 weeks (!!)

So anyway, if you reallllyyyy realllyyyy want to have it done and you feel like it will make you happier, I say go for it!

GOOD LUCK!