Tamra Gets a Breast Implant Reduction

Submitted by Meg Wilson on April 3, 2008 - 11:48.

Tamra Barney is the beautiful new housewife on the popular show The Real Housewives of Orange County. She calls herself "the hottest housewife in Orange County" and she recently became a real estate agent in real life and says that a good looking female realtor will always make money in Orange County regardless of the economic climate.

Tamra recently celebrated her 40th birthday and she works hard to keep looking hot. Last year she decided to have her breast implants reduced in size. She says her original huge implants were put in in her early 20's. They were so big that they were wider than her rib cage.

But "after three pregnancies, nursing, and the weight of the implant, the internal pocket was too stretched out to support the implants. Imagine wearing a heavy backpack all day long that was too loose. I constantly used my shoulders and back to compensate, which lead to neck and back pain."

So she decided to go ahead with the breast implant reduction surgery. She's very happy with the results and she tells us all the details on her blog. This is a very interesting read for anyone contemplating either breast implants or breast implant removal.

Over 50 people have left some entertaining comments on her post about this. Here's one example,

First, is this a blog or an advertisement for Dr. Ambe? I can only assume your surgery was free in exchange for your glowing recommendation and rundown of his entire medical background.

Second, I would like to commend you on having the good judgment to decide that your implants were too large for your frame and do something about it. You have a lovely face but even I (a heterosexual mom of two) found it difficult to look at anything but your boobs when you were on camera. They were just too big! Glad your pain is gone and the operation was successful. I look forward to seeing the new implants in a future episode.

See Tamra's Breast Implant Reduction story on her blog.


( categories: Bigger Breasts )
Submitted by Michael (not verified) on April 4, 2008 - 11:49.

I work with a plastic surgeon in Houston - breast augmentation (enlargement/implants and reduction) is something that's popular not only in the O.C., obviously. I'm not a surgeon, but being in the beauty business, I read a lot about plastic surgery. Recently, I was reading a release from the American Association of Plastic Surgeons re: their 2007 national plastic surgery statistics. As is typically the case, breast aug was the number one surgical cosmetic procedure in the U.S. last year (2007) with 347,500 procedures performed. Now, there were also over 100,000 breast reduction procedures performed during that same time. What I think is great about Tamra's story (and is great about plastic surgery), is that she wanted to have a certain look in her 20s, and ps was able to help. Then, when she decided bigger wasn't better, again, ps was able to help, giving her breasts that not only helped her to feel better about how she looked, but also how she felt, physically. From my interviews with women (and men), breast reduction is definitely one of those procedures that patients often wonder why they waited so long - why they lived so many years with the physical and emotional pain of overly large breasts.