Raven-Symone Reveals She Had Lipo & Breast Reduction Before Age 18 After Trolls Called Her ‘Fat’

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Raven-Symone is getting existent astir the scrutiny she was nether during the tallness of her fame successful the aboriginal 2000s and however overmuch it took a toll connected her. On the Aug. 6 occurrence of her podcast The Best Podcast Ever with Raven & Miranda, the erstwhile Disney prima revealed that she had 2 bosom reductions, arsenic good arsenic liposuction, earlier she adjacent turned 18. “There was paperwork involved,” she recalled, arsenic she was a insignificant astatine the time. “My dada suggested powerfully that I should person my breasts reduced.”

Body representation issues plagued Raven earlier she made the determination to spell nether the knife. “He was like, ‘So you don’t consciousness bad, is determination thing you want?'” she continued. “And I was like, ‘Yeah, if I get lipo, volition radical halt calling maine fat?'”

Raven-Symone successful 2023. (John Salangsang/Shutterstock for HollyRod Foundation)

Raven called the concern a “mess” and said determination were adjacent complications from her archetypal bosom reduction. She had a seizure aft the procedure. “I retrieve waking up and seeing everything and past I conscionable started to person this adust rima and couldn’t respire and went backmost under,” she shared. However, she added that she doesn’t retrieve overmuch astir the concern due to the fact that she “disassociated” herself from the reality. Still, Raven said she doesn’t regret having the process due to the fact that her breasts “grew backmost to not that large of a size.”

Raven-Symone successful 2004. (SBM/Plux/Shutterstock)

Over the years, Raven has been unfastened astir her struggles with assemblage image. In 2022, she revealed that she had shed 40 pounds with her wife, Miranda Pearman-Maday’s, assistance connected a no-sugar diet. Before that, she shared that she had lost 28 pounds successful 2021. Raven besides dished to HollywoodLife EXCLUSIVELY astir the alteration astatine that time.

“It’s decidedly an ongoing travel for me,” she shared successful July 2021. “I acceptable retired to suffer value truthful I could beryllium much healthy. But I didn’t acceptable retired with a ocular thought of what to look like. When I get to a definite weight, I ever find happiness with myself, immoderate size I am.”

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