Silicone breast implants, 2009 to 2013, Los Angeles and New York, United States

‘My ex had convinced me to get breast implants. He would continually comment on how he was a “boob guy” and allude to the idea that my natural breasts were not big enough. I got silicone breast implants, which he initially paid for, but then he made me pay him back. I had these implants in my body for five years. I hated them the entire time. They not only caused me emotional trauma, but they ended up physically traumatising me as well. My body rejected them from day one and, in the first year, I had two surgeries; one to place them in and one surgery for revision. They would not sit properly in my body. I finally decided to have the implants removed to reclaim my own natural, beautiful body, and to close the door on any leftover influence that ex had on my life.’