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Wednesday, July 5, 2017
Lesley Murphy: Bachelor Alum Shares Pics After Post-Mastectomy Boob Job
Lesley Murphy won fans when competing in Season 17 of The Bachelor, vying for Sean Lowe’s heart way back in 2013.
More recently, though, she made headlines for wisely getting a preventative double-mastectomy after finding out that her genetics put her at major risk of getting breast cancer.
And now, after weeks of preparation, she’s gotten implants and she’s sharing her tale with the world.
Her most recent photo shows her with her surgery happily behind her and she’s doing just fine.
In this Fourth of July photo, Lesley jokes that she’s been “stuffing her bra since the ’90s.”
Avoiding cancer before you ever get it is good.
Having a great sense of humor about it is great.
Just look at how cheerful she looks in this photo after receiving her breast implants:
You may recall that Lesley discovered that she has the BRCA 2 gene, which puts her at major risk for breast cancer.
A double-mastectomy is of course the best choice, but the fact that she’s sharing this with the world is so important.
We’ve read of worst-case scenarios when women face this decision after a breast cancer diagnosis.
One woman’s husband told her that he’d rather see her dead than without breasts.
Another woman expected her husband to pick her up from her mastectomy and he never showed.
When she eventually made her way home, she discovered that he had moved out while she was in the hospital.
(The world is awful, sorry)
So when Lesley Murphy shares her story, complete with photos, with the world, she’s working to reduce misunderstandings and to normalize the life-saving procedure for other women.
It’s even better when she walks followers through every step of the way.
That photo is of Lesley after her second post-op following the mastectomy surgery.
Part of preparing to receive implants meant getting pumped with gradually increasing volumes of saline.
She described the temporary expander implants as feeling like “boulders” as they brought her up from a flat chest to a C-cup.
But now she’s past all of that and her implant surgery went well.
“Happy with a 100% chance of swollen. Exchange surgery was a success and a huge difference from the double mastectomy surgery,”
It sounds like her experience was, while not perfect, very much a best-case scenario.
“After 3 hours I woke up and drank some ginger ale, saw my mom, discussed things with my sweet nurse and was wheeled out of my favorite hospital…where I felt like we hit every bump in the road on the way home. Ouuuuch.”
Yeah, that sounds all kinds of agonizing.
You don’t need to have ever had surgery or have boobs to understand that cars aren’t exactly the most comfortable place to be when you’re not feeling your best.
Honestly, if we’d had any kind of major surgery so recently, you wouldn’t catch us posing for photos for the Fourth of July.
You’d be lucky to catch us wearing anything more than a bathrobe.
A C-cup is a lot of progress since Lesley Murphy’s post-mastectomy photo, right?
Keep in mind, though, that if Lesley had wanted to keep her chest at that level, that would have been 100% fine.
Not everyone who gets a mastectomy can afford to get implants afterwards.
Not everyone who gets a mastectomy wants to get implants afterwards, for any of a whole host of reasons.
But by sharing her story like this, Lesley may make it easier for an unknowable number of women to get life-saving procedures in the future.
Boobs are awesome, but nobody should be dying to keep them.
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Kim Kardashian: FURIOUS Over Jay Z"s Diss Track About Kanye West?!
Kim Kardashian has enough to deal with right now.
We imagine she’s still dealing with the trauma of being robbed at gunpoint last October in Paris, and if reports are to be believed, she’s expecting a new baby or two via surrogate.
If that weren’t enough, her husband, Kanye West, suffered a mental breakdown late last year, and it seems like he’s still working on getting himself well.
There are also all those divorce rumors that keep popping up …
The point is Kim has her plate full these days, and she doesn’t need more piled on.
But unfortunately, that’s apparently just what Jay Z did when he released his new album last Friday.
The issue is that, in one of the tracks on the album, Jay went after Kanye, and went after him hard.
“I know people backstab you, I feel bad too,” he rapped. “But this ‘f-ck everybody’ attitude ain’t natural.”
“But you ain’t the same, this ain’t KumbaYe, but you got hurt because you did cool by ‘Ye.”
“You gave him 20 million without blinkin’,” Jay Z continued. “He gave you 20 minutes on stage, f-ck was he thinkin’?”
“‘F-ckin’ wrong with everybody?’ is what you sayin’, but if everybody’s crazy, you’re the one that’s insane.”
Pretty rough, right?
It’s even rougher for Kim, who, according to a source who spoke to Hollywood Life, “gets very protective of her husband, like a mama bear.”
“She thinks it was a low blow to diss Kanye and throw around words like ‘insane’ after all he’s been through.”
“Kanye had a real difficult time last year,” the source continued, “and is still coming out of it, so to hit him like that wasn’t cool.”
And you know what? It really wasn’t.
To call someone who recently spent some time in a psychiatric facility to get help for some emotional issues “insane” — especially someone you used to consider a close friend — really is low.
And if the story wasn’t sad enough already, another source added that “Kim is worried sick that Kanye is getting too worked up over this feud.”
“She has worked so hard to get Ye to a more stable mental and emotional place and fears the strain of beefing with Jay will cause him to relapse back to an unhealthy mental state.”
Kim “really wants Kanye to focus on his health and the family,” but “instead he seems more and more concerned with work, money and the tour and that really concerns her.”
Yeah, if that’s true, it concerns us, too.
It seems like overextending himself was what caused Kanye to have a breakdown in the first place, and it seems like he’s doing the same thing all over again.
Why’d you have to go and be petty, Jay Z?
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