In Search of Breast Implants – About Nicole’s Background

I am 31 years old and have two kids. I am about 5’4″ tall and weigh about 115 pounds. I have always been into exercise. Although I have always felt like I had a nice figure, I also felt like there was something missing. As a result, for as long as I can remember, I wanted to have bigger breasts. In fact, breast augmentation had been something on my mind for a long, long time.

Sound familiar? Until I had children, I was about a medium A cup in breast size. Until I had kids, I was also a firm A cup so I was able to live with what I thought were at least “pretty” breasts. A couple of other things made me more self-conscious about my breasts, however.

When I was a teenager, I had a benign cyst removed from one of my breasts. Although the cyst was not especially large, its removal left me with a small imbalance in breast appearance and a scar on my nipple. To make matters worse, I have had since childhood a faint scar on my chest from a coffee burn.

These characteristics, along with my breast size, have always made me feel somewhat inadequate. As I grew older, my breasts did not increase in size despite my mother’s assurances that they would. My mom was a nice-sized B cup when I was younger and, with age, and not very significant weight gain, she has grown to an ample D cup.

After breast feeding my first child, I knew I wanted breast implants for sure. During breast-feeding, my breasts swelled to a very full and firm C cup and I fell in love with the feeling and appearance of them. Afterwards, I was an A again but a droopy and smaller A. See my photos at the bottom of this page.

When I had my second child, the same thing happened and shortly after giving birth, I went to see a doctor for my first consultation. Six months after I finished breast feeding my second child, I went for another consultation with my first doctor and he told me to wait until more time passed after breast feeding. Impatient, and because of information provided to me by two of my cousins who were at the same time considering augmentation, I had a consultation with a surgeon in NYC.

My older cousin’s situation was driving her toward a very qualified surgeon and, as a result, her decision meant a great deal to me. She had silicone implants placed above the muscle almost 15 years prior to her second surgery and wanted to replace them due to capsular contracture. As you might expect after reading other women’s opinions at this website, she also wanted to increase her size. She was initially an AAA cup with almost no breast tissue at all. Her first surgery resulted in a B cup but an appearance she was largely unhappy with.

My other cousin was also an A cup and wanted to be a large B, “baby” C cup. The three of us went to see Dr. Vitolo and, because of knowledge gained at prior consultations and due to the caliber of Dr. Vitolo’s work, scheduled our appointments within the month and within a week of each other.

 
Before (A cup) and After 3 Months (C cup)

Next Stop: Consultation with a plastic surgeon