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Tamra Judge confirmed her latest breast surgery on a recent episode of her shared podcast with Teddi Mellencamp.
After swearing off breast implants years ago after experiencing what she believed was breast implant illness, the 58-year-old Real Housewives of Orange County alum told listeners that she had undergone another round of plastic surgery in an effort to fix an “animated deformity.”
“I do have an announcement to make … the general public doesn’t know about it, but they are starting to figure it out. I had surgery on July 14th, and I wasn’t really gonna say anything, [but] one of my producers kind of outed me on my confessional. I don’t know if it’s gonna air or not. So I thought that I should just come forward and let you know what I have had done,” Tamra began on a recent episode of Two Ts in a Pod, via It’s a Bravo World on Instagram.
“I have had um my 100th breast surgery,” she revealed, thanking Dr. Donald Mowlds for her “new rack” in an Instagram Story.
“I had what was called an animation deformity. I couldn’t wear low-cut shirts because I had a line crease that went through both sides of my boobs, so it started to look like I had two boobs on each side,” she explained of the decision, noting that she had her last set of implants removed five years ago.
According to Tamra, her doctor told her that going under the knife the most recent time was “a normal part of the original surgery” since her peck muscle had detached from her chest and moved up towards her shoulder.
“This can happen in active women. I bench [press]. I do a lot of chest exercises, and it was starting to get worse,” she shared. “The treatment that I had was to sew the muscle back to my chest, then carefully — yes, I did it, guys, I put a 150 cc implant.”
Looking back at her decision to have her implants removed, Tamra confirmed she was given a new set.
“These are new implants because I had had mine originally removed five years ago because I felt like I was getting breast implant illness. I was having autoimmune issues and all kinds of things, placebo effect on my mind or whatever, but then I took them out, and I felt like I was so much better,” she stated.
While Tamra felt that she was sick due to her implants, she has since realized that her symptoms were likely the result of the stress she was under after being fired from RHOC.
Although her doctor planned to put bigger implants in, Tamra’s rib cage was too narrow.
“He’s like, ‘I’ve never put that small implants in anybody.’ [They’re] very, very small … a little bit of perkiness on top. They are not under my muscle. They are on top of my muscle,” she explained.
Months after her five-hour surgery, and after suffering from two months of pain thereafter, Tamra said she was glad she had the operation done.
“They look beautiful .. I’m glad I had it done. I think they look beautiful. They’re not big. They’re full. I can wear low-cut shirts now … So there it is, thank you, Dr. Mowlds,” she concluded.
The Real Housewives of Orange County season 19 airs Thursdays at 8/7c on Bravo.