Hollywood icons transformed breast implants into essential fashion trends, right alongside chihuahua dogs and Erewhon green juice.
Going under the knife once represented the ultimate upgrade, yet top stars now say goodbye to their implants. Health concerns, shifting body standards, and natural beauty cravings drive this massive celebrity explant movement across the entertainment industry.
These twenty famous women completely flipped Hollywood beauty standards by reclaiming their natural bodies forever.
Victoria Beckham
For Victoria Beckham, breast implants reportedly became a barrier on the runway to fashion royalty. Tom Bower’s juicy new biography claims Anna Wintour advised Victoria Beckham to lose her implants for high-fashion credibility.
Clare Crawley
For Bachelorette star Clare Crawley, getting breast implants felt like a confidence booster at first. But health problems followed soon after as Crawley began experiencing unexplained autoimmune symptoms, strange rashes, chronic inflammation, and swollen lymph nodes, all of which left doctors wondering.
Kimberly Holland
When former Playboy model Kimberly Holland upgraded to silicone ‘gummy bear’ breast implants, she thought she was enhancing her figure. But within weeks, Holland felt like her body was “on fire,” was breaking out in mysterious viral rashes, experiencing chronic dental infections, and developing Raynaud’s disease, which left her extremities painfully cold and discolored.
Pamela Anderson
Pamela Anderson’s famous curves defined an entire era, but the actress now admits she regrets her breast implants. Opening up in a candid interview with W Magazine, Pamela pointed directly to her chest when asked if she regretted any decisions made “in the name of beauty.”
Chrissy Teigen
Chrissy Teigen is known for keeping things real, and proving she had her breast implants removed was no exception. After some fans doubted her decision, the Cravings cookbook author took matters into her own hands, sharing a candid and censored behind-the-scenes photo from the surgery itself. “Trust me lol,” she jokingly captioned the snap.
Mena Suvari
Mena Suvari tapped into global stardom after American Beauty, but behind the scenes, she struggled with body image and self-worth, which led her to get breast implants.
Danica Patrick
Having broken barriers on the track during her peak in NASCAR, racing legend Danica Patrick’s journey took a painful detour when the breast implants she got began wreaking havoc on her health.
SZA
Grammy-winning star SZA learned the hard way that implants aren’t always the perk they seem. After discovering she had a staggering 53% lifetime risk of breast cancer due to her family history, SZA’s decision to get breast implants took a painful turn.
Crystal Hefner
For Crystal Hefner, breast implants came with a side of years of unexplained illness. The former Playboy model revealed in a Facebook post that she had her implants removed in 2016 after suffering from chronic fatigue, brain fog, pain, and thyroid issues that left her bedridden.
Ashley Tisdale
Ashley Tisdale’s breast implants may have started as a confidence booster, but they eventually became the source of some serious health struggles. The High School Musical star got candid on Instagram, revealing she had her implants removed after suffering from a string of mysterious ailments—including gut issues, food sensitivities, and a general sense that something just wasn’t right.
Genevieve Padalecki
When Genevieve Padalecki decided to get breast implants, she initially loved the results. However, just months after her surgery, Genevieve found herself experiencing intense joint pain, constant fatigue, and baffling inflammation that left the once-active mom unable to run more than a few miles without exhaustion.
Tamra Judge
Real Housewives of Orange County star Tamra Judge removed her breast implants not once but twice. Tamra previously told People that she had had five different breast surgeries since her 20s. After years of dealing with thyroid issues, joint pain, and chronic inflammation, she revealed she underwent explant surgery due to autoimmune concerns.
Adrienne Bailon
Adrienne Bailon got real on the daytime show The Real when she opened up about her decision to remove her breast implants, revealing the whole thing was about her confidence.
Rhylee Gerber
Rhylee Gerber is no stranger to rough seas, but the Below Deck star wasn’t prepared for the storm inside of her own body. After nearly 12 years with breast implants, Rhylee discovered one of them had silently ruptured, leaking arsenic and other dangerous toxins into her system.
Ayesha Curry
Ayesha Curry might be known for her cookbooks and candor, but even she wasn’t prepared for the aftermath of what she calls a “rash” decision to get breast surgery after giving birth to her second child in 2015. In an honest interview with Working Mother, the entrepreneur revealed that lingering postpartum struggles and body-image issues pushed her toward a cosmetic procedure she now regrets.
Emily Simpson
Emily Simpson traded her breast implants for better health. The Real Housewives of Orange County star recently had her silicone implants removed after noticing a worrying increase in arthritis and joint pain, conditions she believes were triggered by breast implant illness.
Heather Morris
Heather Morris’s breast implants lasted about as well as your average Hollywood romance: brief, dramatic, and ending with serious regrets. Initially brushing off speculation by crediting better bras for her suddenly boosted curves, the Glee star finally came clean: she did go under the knife. Still, she quickly realized bigger definitely wasn’t better (at least not for her dance moves).
Melissa Rycroft Strickland
The Bachelor alum Melissa Rycroft is embracing her natural self after saying goodbye to her breast implants. “My body was telling me they didn’t want these implants in,” she shared on Instagram, revealing that one implant never settled properly, even after reconstruction.
Yolanda Hadid
Yolanda Hadid turned back time by letting go of cosmetic procedures. To mark her 55th birthday, the former Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star shared an Instagram post celebrating her return to a fully natural self. The mother of Gigi and Bella Hadid had her silicone breast implants removed back in 2016 after learning that the material had leaked into her body.
Karen McDougal
When your career involves gracing the pages of Playboy, breast implants might feel like part of the uniform. But for former Playmate Karen McDougal, implants turned out to be a nightmare she never signed up for.
