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My Boob Job Went Against Everything I Believe In<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n
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I was staunchly anti-plastic surgery until a breast augmentation changed my life.<\/div>\n
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By <\/span>Nicola Dall’Asen<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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Welcome back to Learning Curve, a column where we unpack the complicated experience of accepting your own body in a world that doesn’t seem to want you to. In this edition, Nicola examines her combative relationship with plastic surgery\u2014which changed drastically after she went under the knife herself.<\/em><\/p>\n

Plastic surgery and I have never really gotten along. Even at my job here at Allure<\/em>, where we cover cosmetic procedures extensively, she and I have kept our distance, smiling stiffly at each other from across the room when we make accidental eye contact but never bothering to actually talk to each other. What is there to say? I just always thought she was a little fake, you know?<\/p>\n

Truthfully, I\u2019ve pretty much always held the belief that plastic surgery is a cheat code people use to like their own bodies, and that it\u2019s unfeminist to use that cheat code under circumstances that aren\u2019t medically necessary. Undergoing elective surgery is expensive and painful, but it\u2019s easier than embracing your so-called flaws, isn\u2019t it? The plastic surgery industrial complex only serves to enforce the unrealistic beauty standard that makes the general masses feel like our bodies are unattractive or unworthy.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s what I believed, anyway, until I wound up tits out on an operating table, sinking into anesthesia-induced sleep so a plastic surgeon could make my breasts smaller and perkier. That\u2019s right: I, a body-image columnist who preaches self-acceptance for a living, just got a boob job. Did I \u201ccheat,\u201d by my own standard? Yes. But I can\u2019t deny how much it\u2019s changed my body image\u2014and more importantly, my day-to-day life\u2014for the better.<\/p>\n