H'Wood's Plastic Surgery Nightmares
When Breast Implants Go Bad
Enquirer
May 4, 1999
Pamela Anderson Lee Shocked the world and sorely disappointed her legions of male fans when she had her massive breast implants removed. But the blonde
bombshell - who went from an eye-popping 36DD to a more modest 36C - is only one of the many Hollywood stars whose breast enhancement surgery has turned into a disaster.
And many of those stars, like Pam, have now downsized, undergoing new surgery to remove what nature never intended.
"I feel like I'm a petite person and having these large breasts just didn't feel right anymore," the 5-foot-3, 100-pound "V.I.P." star told an interviewer.
"I didn't feel like I looked very good. I was really getting
self-conscious about it."
Although Pam didn't have her silicone implants removed due to medical problems, after the surgery the former "Baywatch" babe - who breast-fed her two children - was stunned to find out that one of the implants had been leaking.
"I had no idea anything was wrong," she said. "I don't know when it happened."
And Pam's troubles may not be over. "One of the potential problems Pamela faces with the removal of her implants is saggy, deflated breasts," said Dr. Randal Haworth, a top Beverly Hills surgeon who has performed more than 1,000
breast enlargements.
"She didn't have the best implants initially. They were done above the muscle and as a result you could see the edges of the implants beneath her skin.
"Statistics show that seven percent of implants rupture by the time they've been in 13 years. That figure claims one percent per year after that.
"And if the breast implants are not done correctly in the first place, there will always be problems."
Dr. Richard Ellenbogen, a prominent Beverly Hills plastic surgeon and clinical instructor of plastic surgery at the University of Southern California, agreed: "Pamela Anderson had huge implants, and huge implants have a much higher complication rate.
"Women like Pamela who have their large implants removed may need some type of uplift procedure to get a more normal contour. I wouldn't be surprised if she has a further procedure."
But Pam is happy with her new look, a close friend revealed.
"Pam just got sick and tired of people staring straight into her
breasts rather than her eyes. She's reached a new era in her life. She wants to be taken seriously as an actress and a person. "Pam finally got fed up with being trussed up like a rock'n'roll bimbo all the time!"
Here are some other stars who found that breast enhancement can be a less than uplifting experience:
Tea Leoni's cups did runneth over when she went from a flat-as-a-board AA cup to a size C in June 1996. but then she faced "The Naked Truth": Six weeks of agonizing pain,
vomiting, insomnia and crying jags that followed her surgery.
Tea told a pal: "Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine I'd suffer such pain." Ultimately the stabbing pain from her implants subsided, and Tea felt reborn with her more than shapely chest.
Mary Tyler Moore experienced months of pain when her implants hardened following a 1991 procedure.
"In 95% of cases where women have their breast implants removed, it's due to the harness phenomenon," said Dr. Ellenbogen.
"The body reacts to the implant causing scar tissue to form around it, making it feel hard. "To a woman this feels like a knife in the chest." Mary was forced to undergo a second operation to replace the implants with new ones.
"If I'd known this was going to happen to me, I'd never have had the implants in the first place," Mary told a source.
Jenny Jones wanted a fuller figure - and wound up with 11 years of hell. Silicone implants the talk show hostess got in 1981 hardened and five operations later, they still weren't right. So in 1992, she had the implants removed. Jenny saw a psychologist to deal with the mental adjustment from
having her implants removed. And her experience, which left her with breast that are numb and asymmetrical,
convinced her Her to start a foundation that urges women with implant problems to seek medical help.
"I don't have cleavage," says Jenny, who went from a 36C down to AA. "But I sure am better off without them."
Cher admitted she had her breasts fixed but it took several procedures before she was happy with her fuller figure.
"My breast operations were a nightmare," she revealed. "They were really botched in every way."
Stevie Nicks says she's "living proof" that breast implants are not safe.
In 1994, the Fleetwood Mac songbird had a serious attack of
Epstein-Barr syndrome, a condition marked by extreme weakness and fatigue. She suspected it was caused by the silicone breast implants she got in 1976, and had them taken
out. "It turned out they were totally broken," said Stevie, whose health improved after the procedure. She kept the removed implants in her freezer to "remind me of the
agony."
Sally Kirkland, the "EDtv" star, told the Enquirer she had to endure nine corrective surgeries following the rupture of her silicone implants in the late 1980's. "My body became a battle zone of scar tissue from all the operations. And I was constantly fighting the toxic die-off as the silicone moved through my body, poisoning healthy tissue."
Sally's replacement saline implants fared no better and they were removed in August 1998.
Jenny McCarthy says she had her bustline pumped up to 36DD because big breasts "gave me something to make fun of." But now the former MTV vixen reveals she's going to follow Pam Anderson's lead and get something off her chest.
"I have a feeling you'll see a dramatic decrease in my bustline in a couple of years," Jenny, 26, told a reporter.
"I have a feeling you'll see a dramatic decrease in my bustline in a couple of years" Jenny, 26, told a reporter. " I had mine done at 19 which was way too young. I tell girls that if
they really want them done they should wait until they're older. If I'd waited until now I wouldn't have them done.
"The surgeon said he didn't want to give me implants because he thought my boobs were perky and bouncy.
"But I insisted I wanted them bigger. Now I think they're too big and I'd like to get them reduced."
Dolly Parton had her trademark breasts downsized in 1986 when her specially constructed quart-size implants had to be removed and replace with smaller ones. The 5-foot-1 country music star - who'd earlier had a leaking implant replaced had dieted down to 102 pounds and her breasts began to sag.
Dolly was reluctant to reduce her breasts, saying "I wouldn't be Dolly without them." But even her smaller D-cup breasts have left Dolly with the bodice-busing measurements of 42-19-34!
Mariel Hemingway blossomed from a 32A to a 36C for her role as Playboy pinup Dorothy Stratten in the movie "Star 80."
But in 1993, at the age of 31, she had the implants removed, saying "they became unimportant, so I got rid of them".
Mariel split the difference between her mountains and her molehills: She had smaller implants put in and she's now a 34B.
Courtney Love thought she was keeping abreast of fashion when she deepened her cleavage by boosting her measurements to 35C.
But in March 1993, the rocker said not thanks for the mammaries - she had her implants removed and deflated her frontage to 34B.
Nicole Egert, Pam Anderson's former "Baywatch" co-star, abandoned more than her red swimsuit when she quit the series - she also left her breast implants behind as she embarked upon a film career.
Nicole had her breast reduced in 1994, moaning, "I regret ever having saline implants."
Mary McDonough, a child star on "The Waltons," decided to grow when she grew up, and had her chest renovated to give her career a boost. But the breast implants she received in 1984 made her so ill that after contracting lupus, she finally had them removed in 1994. Mary told a reporter that "not only had they ruptured but the polyurethane foam around them had melted and seeped into my system, So everything
had to be scraped out."
Melanie Griffith had breast implant work done in 1990 - and two days later she had to undergo emergency surgery when she began bleeding badly from the stitches. After the blood was drained and the ruptured blood vessel in one of
her breast restitched, Melanie was sent home to recover, still shaken. She told pals: "I thought I was going to bleed to death."
Tina Turner had two procedures performed to fix implants that had hardened. Then the rock diva did the next breast thing for her surgeon: She slept with him, according to a book written by her personal assistant. Afterwards
Tina asked the doc, "Well, what do you think of your work?"
He said, "Not bad at all."
Other Pictures Include:
Loni Anderson
Whoopi Goldberg
Drew Barrymore
Soleil Moon Frye
Robin Quivers - Howard Stern's sidekick.
Ursula Andress
All the above say they have had reductions.
Also Story on songbird Britney Spears - Has Implants - At Age 17!
When Breast Implants Go Bad
Enquirer
May 4, 1999
Pamela Anderson Lee Shocked the world and sorely disappointed her legions of male fans when she had her massive breast implants removed. But the blonde
bombshell - who went from an eye-popping 36DD to a more modest 36C - is only one of the many Hollywood stars whose breast enhancement surgery has turned into a disaster.
And many of those stars, like Pam, have now downsized, undergoing new surgery to remove what nature never intended.
"I feel like I'm a petite person and having these large breasts just didn't feel right anymore," the 5-foot-3, 100-pound "V.I.P." star told an interviewer.
"I didn't feel like I looked very good. I was really getting
self-conscious about it."
Although Pam didn't have her silicone implants removed due to medical problems, after the surgery the former "Baywatch" babe - who breast-fed her two children - was stunned to find out that one of the implants had been leaking.
"I had no idea anything was wrong," she said. "I don't know when it happened."
And Pam's troubles may not be over. "One of the potential problems Pamela faces with the removal of her implants is saggy, deflated breasts," said Dr. Randal Haworth, a top Beverly Hills surgeon who has performed more than 1,000
breast enlargements.
"She didn't have the best implants initially. They were done above the muscle and as a result you could see the edges of the implants beneath her skin.
"Statistics show that seven percent of implants rupture by the time they've been in 13 years. That figure claims one percent per year after that.
"And if the breast implants are not done correctly in the first place, there will always be problems."
Dr. Richard Ellenbogen, a prominent Beverly Hills plastic surgeon and clinical instructor of plastic surgery at the University of Southern California, agreed: "Pamela Anderson had huge implants, and huge implants have a much higher complication rate.
"Women like Pamela who have their large implants removed may need some type of uplift procedure to get a more normal contour. I wouldn't be surprised if she has a further procedure."
But Pam is happy with her new look, a close friend revealed.
"Pam just got sick and tired of people staring straight into her
breasts rather than her eyes. She's reached a new era in her life. She wants to be taken seriously as an actress and a person. "Pam finally got fed up with being trussed up like a rock'n'roll bimbo all the time!"
Here are some other stars who found that breast enhancement can be a less than uplifting experience:
Tea Leoni's cups did runneth over when she went from a flat-as-a-board AA cup to a size C in June 1996. but then she faced "The Naked Truth": Six weeks of agonizing pain,
vomiting, insomnia and crying jags that followed her surgery.
Tea told a pal: "Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine I'd suffer such pain." Ultimately the stabbing pain from her implants subsided, and Tea felt reborn with her more than shapely chest.
Mary Tyler Moore experienced months of pain when her implants hardened following a 1991 procedure.
"In 95% of cases where women have their breast implants removed, it's due to the harness phenomenon," said Dr. Ellenbogen.
"The body reacts to the implant causing scar tissue to form around it, making it feel hard. "To a woman this feels like a knife in the chest." Mary was forced to undergo a second operation to replace the implants with new ones.
"If I'd known this was going to happen to me, I'd never have had the implants in the first place," Mary told a source.
Jenny Jones wanted a fuller figure - and wound up with 11 years of hell. Silicone implants the talk show hostess got in 1981 hardened and five operations later, they still weren't right. So in 1992, she had the implants removed. Jenny saw a psychologist to deal with the mental adjustment from
having her implants removed. And her experience, which left her with breast that are numb and asymmetrical,
convinced her Her to start a foundation that urges women with implant problems to seek medical help.
"I don't have cleavage," says Jenny, who went from a 36C down to AA. "But I sure am better off without them."
Cher admitted she had her breasts fixed but it took several procedures before she was happy with her fuller figure.
"My breast operations were a nightmare," she revealed. "They were really botched in every way."
Stevie Nicks says she's "living proof" that breast implants are not safe.
In 1994, the Fleetwood Mac songbird had a serious attack of
Epstein-Barr syndrome, a condition marked by extreme weakness and fatigue. She suspected it was caused by the silicone breast implants she got in 1976, and had them taken
out. "It turned out they were totally broken," said Stevie, whose health improved after the procedure. She kept the removed implants in her freezer to "remind me of the
agony."
Sally Kirkland, the "EDtv" star, told the Enquirer she had to endure nine corrective surgeries following the rupture of her silicone implants in the late 1980's. "My body became a battle zone of scar tissue from all the operations. And I was constantly fighting the toxic die-off as the silicone moved through my body, poisoning healthy tissue."
Sally's replacement saline implants fared no better and they were removed in August 1998.
Jenny McCarthy says she had her bustline pumped up to 36DD because big breasts "gave me something to make fun of." But now the former MTV vixen reveals she's going to follow Pam Anderson's lead and get something off her chest.
"I have a feeling you'll see a dramatic decrease in my bustline in a couple of years," Jenny, 26, told a reporter.
"I have a feeling you'll see a dramatic decrease in my bustline in a couple of years" Jenny, 26, told a reporter. " I had mine done at 19 which was way too young. I tell girls that if
they really want them done they should wait until they're older. If I'd waited until now I wouldn't have them done.
"The surgeon said he didn't want to give me implants because he thought my boobs were perky and bouncy.
"But I insisted I wanted them bigger. Now I think they're too big and I'd like to get them reduced."
Dolly Parton had her trademark breasts downsized in 1986 when her specially constructed quart-size implants had to be removed and replace with smaller ones. The 5-foot-1 country music star - who'd earlier had a leaking implant replaced had dieted down to 102 pounds and her breasts began to sag.
Dolly was reluctant to reduce her breasts, saying "I wouldn't be Dolly without them." But even her smaller D-cup breasts have left Dolly with the bodice-busing measurements of 42-19-34!
Mariel Hemingway blossomed from a 32A to a 36C for her role as Playboy pinup Dorothy Stratten in the movie "Star 80."
But in 1993, at the age of 31, she had the implants removed, saying "they became unimportant, so I got rid of them".
Mariel split the difference between her mountains and her molehills: She had smaller implants put in and she's now a 34B.
Courtney Love thought she was keeping abreast of fashion when she deepened her cleavage by boosting her measurements to 35C.
But in March 1993, the rocker said not thanks for the mammaries - she had her implants removed and deflated her frontage to 34B.
Nicole Egert, Pam Anderson's former "Baywatch" co-star, abandoned more than her red swimsuit when she quit the series - she also left her breast implants behind as she embarked upon a film career.
Nicole had her breast reduced in 1994, moaning, "I regret ever having saline implants."
Mary McDonough, a child star on "The Waltons," decided to grow when she grew up, and had her chest renovated to give her career a boost. But the breast implants she received in 1984 made her so ill that after contracting lupus, she finally had them removed in 1994. Mary told a reporter that "not only had they ruptured but the polyurethane foam around them had melted and seeped into my system, So everything
had to be scraped out."
Melanie Griffith had breast implant work done in 1990 - and two days later she had to undergo emergency surgery when she began bleeding badly from the stitches. After the blood was drained and the ruptured blood vessel in one of
her breast restitched, Melanie was sent home to recover, still shaken. She told pals: "I thought I was going to bleed to death."
Tina Turner had two procedures performed to fix implants that had hardened. Then the rock diva did the next breast thing for her surgeon: She slept with him, according to a book written by her personal assistant. Afterwards
Tina asked the doc, "Well, what do you think of your work?"
He said, "Not bad at all."
Other Pictures Include:
Loni Anderson
Whoopi Goldberg
Drew Barrymore
Soleil Moon Frye
Robin Quivers - Howard Stern's sidekick.
Ursula Andress
All the above say they have had reductions.
Also Story on songbird Britney Spears - Has Implants - At Age 17!
