Throughout a latest episode of Raven-Symone’s podcast, The Finest Podcast Ever, she revealed that she went underneath the knife earlier than the age of 18. In accordance with the previous youngster star, she had been receiving adverse feedback about her weight throughout her time on That’s So Raven. This led her her to discover surgical fixes. She determined to get liposuction, in addition to a surgical breast discount. She says that her father was in help of, and even advisable, that she have her breasts lowered.

“There was paperwork concerned,” she defined. “My dad instructed strongly that I ought to get my breasts lowered. 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?’” Raven continued, “So I acquired a twofer. It was only a mess, simply being that younger and the ache of all of it.”

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Raven-Symone Obtained Plastic Surgical procedure To Fight Weight Criticism

On prime of getting the procedures finished at a younger age, Raven additionally suffered a traumatic expertise throughout one surgical procedure. She had a seizure, which she says she nonetheless fears to this present day. “I bear 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 underneath,” she revealed. Although the expertise was horrifying, she went on to get a further breast discount. She was nonetheless underneath 18 for the second, which she acquired when she gained weight after her first one.

Raven-Symone has been open up to now about how rising up on tv impacted her self-perception. Clearly, being underneath a microscope at a younger age introduces new pressures to an adolescent. Physique-shaming was additionally significantly rampant within the early 2000s, when That’s So Raven was airing. Now that she’s grown up and began to open up about her expertise, she’s shedding mild on numerous points that proceed to plague younger individuals, and even adults, within the trade.

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