Breast Reduction Surgery: 10 Things You Need During Recovery

Sound the alarms... I just passed my first week in healing from breast reduction surgery! Prior to surgery I did a lot of research on items I'd need during my initial healing, but as with all things, it's a little different once you're in the thick of it. In this video, I share the top 10 items that have been crucial during my first week of recovery. If you're preparing for surgery, I'd highly reccommend getting these items.

Breast Reduction Surgery: First 24 Hours Post-Op Recovery

After thinking about it for years, I finally made the decision to get a breast reduction! In this video, I share my experience during the first 24 hours of post-op recovery. 

    

Did Pauletta Washington have Plastic Surgery?

The pressure to stay looking young in Hollywood is huge.. but there is also pressure for the spouse of any Hollywood A-Lister to look the part. When I recently saw a picture of Denzel and his wife of 30 years, Pauletta Washington, on theybf.com I thought to myself... wait, that can't be here.

Pauletta was looking SNATCHED to the heavens. It's like she went away and got some top notch quality work done. My girlfriend said she looked like she was working out and had new hair, makeup, and clothes... but I'm convinced some very tasteful face work was done.

Whatever she did, Mrs. Washington is looking like the revamped, youthful vixen on the arm of her leading man. I'm not mad at it.

What do you think?

Nip Tuck

Following up to my blog yesterday about plastic surgery - I was speaking with the same friend today and found out that our friend going under the knife has already had her chin done (in addition to her nose) and was considering lipo too. Now, the reason this is so humorous to me is because she is a beautiful girl. Really, she is...and not in the "I only say that because she's my friend" type of way. Whenever I've looked at her in the past I didn't see anything that plastic surgery needed to fix. So, here she is going on her 3rd plastic surgery and she's not even 25yo yet. It made me think about how addictive plastic surgery can be and how if you're not secure in yourself it's kind of like a gateway drug to driving you insane. Before you know it, nothing will be good enough and you'll be dropping all type of dough to have this nipped and that tucked.

Where am I going with this? I think everyone just needs to take some time out and embrace themselves for who they are, flaws included. We are our own worst critics but you need to learn to be your own cheerleader as well!

Plastic Surgery

The only person I knew to get a boob job (enhancement) was a former co-worker. She was a petite, bubbly blonde - single mother - determined to get her sexy back and no longer be compared to a boy. I always thought she was ridiculous wanting to get her breasts done...especially wanting to finance it. I wondered if she defaulted on a payment what would happen. Unlike a car, you can't really get your breasts repo'd. After a company outing to the lake and seeing her in a bikini top I soon realized what had been bugging her out for all these years...her chest was BEYOND flat... borderline non-existent! From that moment on I was one of her cheerleaders for her boob job! Nobody should have to look like that. She was out of work for a week and after she returned she was a new woman! Her boobs looked great and besides having to wear a sport's bra for a while, she recovered pretty quickly.

Today I was talking with a girlfriend about another friend going under the knife to help out where God had slacked off...however, this friend is black. Now, after living in Scottsdale, AZ for a few years I became numb to plastic surgery. It's standard to have your breasts done...no biggie. Hell, chicks even go as far as to get a Brazilian butt lift, multiple nose jobs, chin implants, cheek implants - - I even had a friend get her ears moved closer to her head. Plastic surgery is no big deal - - for white girls. Black culture tends to look down on plastic surgery. If you're getting gastric bypass to save your life or a breast reduction (as my mom and a cousin of mine got) that seems to be allowable...but getting boobs just because? A nose job? Many probably have thoughts race to someone like Michael Jackson that is unrecognizable...or like Vivica Foxx or Lil Kim. Those are the extreme cases of plastic surgery gone wrong. Their faces are over worked and a mess to me...though Vivica is the least extreme of the 3.

Anyways, it made me think about why our culture is so opposed to plastic surgery. I grew up with a very open, liberal mother. She told me that if I didn't like something it was no big deal to fix it...though she always told me I was "beautiful just the way I was" (like a good mother. lol.) I think that boobs are something that you either have or you don't. A nose is also one of those things that is either working for you or not...but women that get lipo when all they really need is a month in the gym...or a butt lift when squats, lunges and weight lifting will do the trick - - I think it's unnecessary. We are definitely a world of instant gratification and plastic surgery is yet another example of it.

Any thoughts?