Naya Rivera bought herself breast implants as a gift for her 18th birthday
Last week, I learned that Naya Rivera has written a memoir called Sorry Not Sorry. She’s pretty young to have a memoir, for sure, but everything I’ve read about Naya so far has left me feeling pretty good about her choice to write it. Naya described her choice to have an abortion back in 2010, on her one day off from Glee. We heard about that last week, and this week, we’re hearing about how she decided to get breast implants on her 18th birthday.
Former Glee star Naya Rivera knew exactly what she wanted to gift herself with on her 18th birthday: breast implants.
“I went around to all my teachers, told them I was going to be out. ‘I’m getting plastic surgery!’ I’d tell them gleefully,” Rivera says in her upcoming memoir. “My art teacher was stoked – when I told her she said that she too had fake tits and that she was very excited for me.”
“My new boobs were a confidence thing, not a sexual thing,” says Rivera, who paid for the surgery with money she’d saved from childhood jobs on Family Matters and The Royal Family. “I’d never even taken my top off for a guy. I hadn’t had many opportunities to do so, but even if I had, my bra was always stuffed with napkins.”
Not that her classmates didn’t take notice of her new curves.
“As soon as I went back to school, [the boys] all practically fell over themselves rushing to see who could hold the door open for me,” she writes.
Rivera says her parents did not approve of her choice to get breast implants at the time, but she’s never second guessed herself.
“People have a lot of opinions about plastic surgery, but more than ten years after I got my boobs, they still make me happy when I look in the mirror. It might have even been the best $8K I’ve ever spent.”
This reminds me a lot of something Kaley Cuoco said in an interview a few years back. Kaley also got implants when she was 18, and she still considers the choice the “best decision I ever made.” I do believe Naya and Kaley when they say that they did it for themselves. I have parts on my body that I think about “correcting” or “fixing” just for me, not because I want to make someone else happy. I think for some women, getting implants does boost their confidence and make them happier. Speaking as someone who has been big-chested since I was 13, it’s a double-edged sword though – I didn’t want to be so busty at such a young age. Sigh… everybody’s got their own issues, I guess that’s my point.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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