Raven-Symoné has beforehand shared that she isn’t any stranger to physique shaming. Now the star is revealing a troubling historical past with beauty surgical procedure.
On the newest episode of her podcast with spouse Miranda Pearman-Maday, “The Finest Podcast Ever With Raven and Miranda,” Symoné revealed she underwent liposuction and two breast reductions earlier than she turned 18. She additional shared that she largely felt pressured to take action by physique shaming she skilled as a younger teen.
“My dad prompt strongly that I ought to get my breasts decreased,” Symoné defined. “He was like, ‘So that you don’t really feel unhealthy, is there something that you really want?’ I used to be like, ‘Yeah, if I get lipo, will individuals cease calling me fats?’ So I bought a twofer. It was only a mess, simply being that younger and the ache of all of it.”
After present process her first breast discount, Symoné felt her chest was “nonetheless too huge” and opted to go for an additional. Nonetheless, the second surgical procedure resulted in a traumatic complication; the “Raven’s Dwelling” star stated she had a seizure shortly after the process.
“I keep in mind waking up and seeing all the things, after which I simply began to have this dry mouth and couldn’t breathe and went again below,” Symoné recalled. She added that to this present day, she doesn’t know the precise reason for the seizure, which nonetheless “freaks” her out.
This isn’t the primary time the “That’s So Raven” alum has opened up about physique shaming she skilled as a baby star. In 2015, she recalled having her meals monitored whereas on the set of “The Cosby Present.”
“It was positively onerous,” she stated on “The View.” “I keep in mind not with the ability to have the bagel or something at — we’d name it ‘artful,’ the place it’s only a desk of meals, prepared so that you can eat no matter you need. And I keep in mind individuals can be like, ‘You’ll be able to’t eat that. You’re getting fats!’ I’m like, ‘I’m 7! I’m hungry!’
In 2017, Symoné advised Folks journal she wished she had been dwelling as an adolescent now.
“I like embracing your physique. At the present time you’ve all types, and it’s humorous, it’s severe, it’s each colour, it’s each head form, it’s each hair. And there’s androgyny and there’s LGBT coming in, and it feels good,” she stated. “We didn’t have it sufficient final time, and I suppose that’s what the previous is for — to verify the current is what it must be.”
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