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SightNZ bride Ottie Schwartz refers to her breasts as her “sacks of insecurity”, but she has no regrets about the boob job she got at age 26, insisting, “How I look is not the most important thing about me.”
The upfront Christchurch promotions manager, 32, was holidaying in Thailand when she was offered reduced-rate surgery to take her from a B-cup to a DD. She recalls, “I’m a strong feminist, so I flip-flopped, but in the end, I love the female form and wanted more boobs. The discount sealed the deal.”
However, when Ottie awoke from the operation, she was “heartbroken”. She tells, “I was so sad for my body, I apologised to it like 20 times. I really struggled. It was ridiculous to go under the knife and it’s sad to walk around with these things, but I talk openly about it to warn other women that you have to treat a boob job like a new handbag – it’s just an accessory and won’t change how you feel inside.”
Though their honeymoon in Bali was idyllic, Ottie and her MAFS groom Gareth Noble, 26, have since butted heads over starting a family, with the blonde bombshell not keen on having children, while the Cromwell barber can’t wait to be a dad.
And Ottie is standing by her decision, even though it’s given her anxiety in the past. She explains, “I was always quite comfortable with the fact I didn’t want kids, but people kept asking me why and I didn’t have an answer, so I went through counselling to tackle the issue, which opened a Pandora’s box of emotions.
“It triggered a lot of anxiety, to the point where I’d wake up with my heart racing like I was running away from a wolf in a forest. I’d panic every time the phone rang. But seeing some of my friends divorce after having two or three kids has made my decision more solid.”
I was so sad for my body, I apologised to it 20 times’