My Breast Job Nightmare
The Singapore Women\'s Weekly|October 2016

One woman’s search for discount breast surgery has ruined her life and made her breasts look worse

My Breast Job Nightmare

When Skye Wheatley headed off to thailand last January she was excited because she was getting a budget breast job, after years of feeling self conscious about her naturally lop-sided breasts. She flew off feeling “beyond excited” to be finally getting “the cleavage of her dreams” – and if you look at her social media accounts it seems to have worked, because there are plenty of photos of her confidently posing in skimpy outfits. 

But the photos don’t tell the real story. because Skye reveals that in real life, her breast implants are not what she wants. In fact, they have left her feeling emotionally devastated.

“I wanted to get my breasts augmented so they would be symmetrical – my right breast was a whole cup size smaller than the left one. Now, my breasts look fine in clothes. but they are really terrible underneath because I have a double bubble effect in the right breast, and the breasts are still different sizes. I am even more self-conscious now.”

Skye flew to thailand to get her breast augmentation. She asked surgeons to transform her asymmetrical 10b and 10c breasts into matching D-cups.

“The medical staff I consulted there told me they would be able to get my breasts how I wanted, but two days after the surgery, I saw my breasts in the mirror and they looked so different to what I had hoped for,” says Skye.

Now, one year after the surgery she is so disappointed with her breast surgery she is preparing to get her implants removed.

What is more, she’s decided to warn others about the potential dangers of breast implants – especially when you try and get them on the cheap, possibly abroad. So we asked Skye some tough questions:

Why did you decide to get implants? 

This story is from the October 2016 edition of The Singapore Women\'s Weekly.

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