Raven-Symoné got plastic surgery before she was 18: ‘Will people stop calling me fat?’

Raven-Symoné has gone beneath the knife extra occasions than she cares to rely — earlier than she even reached the age of 18.

The Disney Channel icon, 37, had many cosmetic surgery procedures when she was simply a young person, akin to two breast reductions and liposuction.

She opened up about her previous operations just lately on her radio program, “The Best Podcast Ever With Raven and Miranda.”

Raven-Symoné was in her late teenagers when she acquired her massive break starring on the hit Disney sitcom “That’s So Raven” and she or he defined how fame influenced her physique picture.

“There was paperwork concerned,” mentioned she advised her co-host and spouse Miranda Pearman-Maday.

She added that her father “prompt strongly” that she ought to make her breasts smaller.

“He was like, ‘So that you don’t really feel dangerous, is there something that you really want?’ I used to be like, ‘Yeah, if I get lipo, will folks cease calling me fats?’ So I acquired a twofer,” the “Raven’s House” actress went on.

“It was only a mess, simply being that younger and the ache of all of it,” she mentioned.

She said that she had a variety of again ache earlier than her surgical procedures. Nonetheless, after her first discount, she suffered from a seizure.

“I keep in mind waking up and seeing every part after which I began to have this dry mouth and couldn’t breathe after which I went again beneath and so they have been like, ‘Oh yeah, you had a seizure,’” Raven-Symoné recounted.

She recalled that she endured discomfort following her operations and nonetheless has scar tissue left over from them.

After the first surgical procedure, she started to achieve some weight and went onto the working desk as soon as once more for a second discount.

The “Cosby Present” alum said that “no person knew at that age” of her physique modifications and she or he continued to be trolled on the web “as a result of I wasn’t as skinny as everyone else and so they nonetheless referred to as me fats.”

She mentioned: “You get that performed and it’s nonetheless not what everyone wished to see.”

Her damaging self-image triggered her to contemplate liposuction. Whereas she mentioned that the beauty surgical procedure didn’t really take away her abdomen fats attributable to her hormone imbalance, she “was going to achieve weight whether or not I had lipo or not.”

The “Cheetah Women” star concluded her story by saying that one ought to look into remedy earlier than wanting to alter their physique.

In 2021, she misplaced about 30 kilos and advised E! News that her spouse was a part of the rationale why she wished to slim down.

“This was as a result of we wish to have a life collectively,” she mentioned. “[My wife] doesn’t wish to take me to an early grave and I wish to make sure that I’m there for her in the most effective well being attainable.”