An American fitness blogger has posted a confronting photo of herself to her more than 1.2 million Instagram followers, holding removed breast implants she got seven years ago — a move that was encouraged by her ex-husband to make their love life “spicier”.
Sia Cooper, the 29-year-old behind the blog Diary of a Fit Mommy, has been suffering from extreme fatigue, exhaustion, hair loss, and weight gain which she says is because of her breast implants.
She underwent multiple medical tests that came back “normal”, convincing the Florida-based mother-of-two her symptoms are related “breast implant illness”.
Yesterday, she shared a topless image of herself while holding the explants in front of her chest, explaining why she finally had them removed.
“I can’t believe it’s been one week,” she said of her explant surgery. “This past week, I’ve been sore, but have felt incredible. More-so than the last few years. I went from being practically bedridden to having more energy to live.”
She went on to explain how her chest pain, shortness of breath and bad body odour had disappeared since her surgery.
“I feel mentally more clear, but still waiting for more on this. Acne is clearing up.
I have colour back in my face again. My weight is finally budging for the first time in MONTHS,” Sia said.
Sia said her husband hasn’t seen her this talkative in months.
“I credit that to me not being so anxious and depressed anymore. The toxicity of the implants themselves and my body trying to fight the foreign objects took a toll on me this year which lead (sic) me to remove them.”
In a recent YouTube post, Sia explained that she got breast implants seven years ago because she felt “really insecure” about herself and thought they would make her happy.
“I was married to my ex-husband at the time, and he really encouraged me to get them. He told me that they would make our love life spicier,’ she admits.
After losing roughly 22 kilos being left with “tiny deflated breasts,” Sia said she “wanted to feel feminine again.”
She decided to get 400 cc silicon gel implants, which were inserted through her armpits without leaving any scars. She went on with her daily life, but a few years later, she noticed her anxiety and depression had increased.
“I ate healthy, exercised regularly, but nothing would help me,” she said in her recent Instagram post. “I saw so many doctors and took so many tests for no answers. I felt like such a hypocrite and fraud because I preached natural, healthy, and organic everyday and yet here I was sick from silicone and a bad choice I made 7 years ago.
“It got to the point where I couldn’t workout anymore. I was that sick. I felt like an 80 year old when I was only 29.”
The fitness guru, who runs a fitness program for mums, said she now feels freer.
“I thought I would cry seeing my new breasts, but I haven’t,” Sia said.
“It feels amazing to be smaller again and they fit my body. I never thought I would say this, but I love my new (old) self.”
After years of campaigns, the Food and Drug Administration in the US agreed to hold a public meeting of medical advisers in 2019 to discuss the safety of silicone breast implants.
The move came before the release of a large study conducted by the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, suggesting certain rare health problems might be more common with silicone gel implants.