Post-Partum Must-Have: The Mommy Makeover

re: Post-Partum Must-Have: The Mommy Makeover

Angel — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 04:12:00 GMT

I am having plastic surgery for *me*. Not my husband, not society, but for me. To match the way I feel on the inside.

I have a consult next month for a breast reduction and panniculectomy (it's a bit like a tummy tuck). But I plan on more in the future. I don't want to look like a supermodel. But after I get to my goal weight, I don't want to look like a sharpei either.

I used to think it was vanity--until parts of my body started heading south ;) FWIW, I have 2 kids (BF for 2 years) and we're done.

re: Post-Partum Must-Have: The Mommy Makeover

Bridgette — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 18:08:46 GMT

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re: Post-Partum Must-Have: The Mommy Makeover

Karen Murphy — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 16:33:04 GMT

Kimberly, thank for weighing in with your experience; I appreciate you adding your perspective!

re: Post-Partum Must-Have: The Mommy Makeover

RachelZ — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 12:38:32 GMT

If my husband were to suggest that I get implants, I would kick him in the nuts. It's MY body, which has CARRIED A CHILD. Certain things change - it's called NATURE. If I do anything - ANYTHING - to my body, it will be for ME, not for some jackass man who "suggests" it.

I think I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.

re: Post-Partum Must-Have: The Mommy Makeover

Kimberly (from the show) — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 12:33:37 GMT

After four years of nursing, I did, at my husbands suggestion get implants. He gave up a certain lifestyle when I wanted to stop my career and stay home with the kids. Perhaps those kind of comproimises are why we are still going strong after 17 years of marriage. (By the way Jane, Barbara Walters has had dozens of cosmetic surgeries and she continues to be an intelligent, caring person. Also, don't believe everything you see on t.v. - it is costumed and created for harmless entertainment.)

re: Post-Partum Must-Have: The Mommy Makeover

Kian — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 19:59:43 GMT

I don't want to create a new bod, but very much *do* want to have the boobs lifted once the baby is done with them. Not bigger either, just lifted.

re: Post-Partum Must-Have: The Mommy Makeover

nips — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 18:56:18 GMT

I successfully erased the ravages of motherhood by locking myself inside a closet for exactly one year so that no one could see the extra skin around my belly. How mortifying. Next time I give birth I'm gonna try to do it immaculate conception style, because I'm pretty sure you can't get all stretchy that way. Also, it's a proven man-pleasing method - thousands of years of lady-body-bashing can't be wrong.

re: Post-Partum Must-Have: The Mommy Makeover

Jane — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 18:37:06 GMT

no no NO!

In addition to being vapid, shallow and boring, the women of Real Housewives are desparate looking. I mean, I think it's desparate, not to mention tacky, when a woman of any age gets her t*ts done and shows them off in cleavage-bearing everyday clothes. There's no dignity to it whatsoever. I'm embarrassed for them. Now I'm in Massachusetts where no one has fake t*ts, so maybe it's culture shock for me. And perhaps that's why I could never live on the west coast or Florida or Texas. (No offense intended.)

My goal is to grow old gracefully. Like Barbara Walters.

re: Post-Partum Must-Have: The Mommy Makeover

Karen Murphy — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 18:33:27 GMT

Elle and Jeri: I don't see what you're planning as being the same as creating new bodies. Lots of women have breast reductions and for medical reasons, and I think that's totally reasonable. And for lightening a melasma, that's a non-surgical treatment, on the same level (to me) as having your teeth whitened. And which, again, is I think quite understandable.

re: Post-Partum Must-Have: The Mommy Makeover

Jeri — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 17:58:25 GMT

Yes, I'm already planning on having my melasma ('mask of pregnancy') lightened with pricey 'photofacials' because I can't stand the dark spots that the hormones fluctuations left .

re: Post-Partum Must-Have: The Mommy Makeover

Elle — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 17:38:18 GMT

I have a friend who, while pregnant with her first baby, already planned to have a boob job after baby number. Me? I'm actually planning to have a breast reduction - which I've wanted for years - soon. I suppose it's partially cosmetic, but I'm more interested in reducing back pain and feeling less like a caricature of a stripper. The only reason I haven't done it yet is because I wanted to be able to breastfeed. I'm leaving the belly and the rest as they are.