A singer from Los Angeles was mortified after paying $10,000 for a breast reduction, only to have them grow back after nine months. Bethanie Lyon, 24, had surgery to take her E cup to a C in July 2019 but less than a year later, she went back to her previous size.
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- Bethanie had the surgery for practical reasons. It had less to do with body image issues and way more to do with trying to rid herself of terrible back pain. It worked at first, but within about three months, she noticed one of her stage costumes splitting and realized that her breasts were growing again.
- It was devastating to be back to where she started. “It was as frustrating as it was heartbreaking honestly – I was so happy after surgery with how they looked,” she said, as per the Daily Mail. “After having gone through so much pain, feeling like it was all for nothing was really difficult to come to terms with.”
- She’d dealt with big breasts for as long as she can remember. Even as a teenager, she knew her chest was going to be larger than normal and it would pose an issue. “I was always a little embarrassed of their size. People commented constantly and it felt like that was all people saw about me and all anyone associated me with was having a big chest,” she recalled. “As a performer, her size E breasts also had an impact on her work. They were just always so heavy and in the way, and I honestly felt like I looked stupid with them when I danced. I also couldn’t wear lots of clothes that I wanted to because they wouldn’t fit my chest.”
- Eventually, she decided surgery was the way forward. She paid $10,000 for the procedure at Cool Springs Plastic Surgery in July 2019. While she was nervous, she loved the doctors at the facility and she felt confident she was making the right decision, especially when she woke up to 34C breasts.
- She had a tough recovery. Bethanie admitted that her recovery was rougher than many others’, with her surgeon later telling her that she “must be much more physically sensitive than most people.” She recalled: “They had to give me extra medication just to be able to walk, sit down, and stand up. I would literally cry every time I had to get up off the couch for the first week because I was in so much pain. It felt like my skin was ripping apart. After about three weeks, I was able to move around as I normally would (minus dancing or exercising).”
- Sadly, her relief was short-lived. While she first noticed her growing breasts at the three-month mark, things got worse from there. “As months went by, they just got bigger and bigger until, after roughly nine months, they were pretty much back to the size they were before. I actually haven’t worn bras since my surgery because of the pain of bra straps and bands so I don’t really know what size they are now, but they look almost identical in size as before my surgery – maybe a cup size smaller.
- She was aware of the rare chance this could happen. However, Bethanie never thought it would happen to her. However, she realizes that her other health conditions might have something to do with it. “I have hypothyroidism and I have to take medication every day to make my body function more regularly,” she explained. “This condition really messes with my hormones, so it’s very possible that they grew back because of my thyroid. My genetics very well could have played a part in it too because I have family on both my mom and dad’s side that naturally have large chests, so my body may have just thought it was doing what it was supposed to do by growing them back.”
- She’d consider having the surgery again in the future. However, after how difficult her recovery was, she’s not considering it anytime soon.
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