# @mayanageneviere on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/Cy1tcyiLXB2
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/13299854-mayanageneviere-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/6e3cd3fb4d.jpg
- **Posted:** 2023-10-25T22:52:04.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Ethical Lingerie | XS-3XL, 28-46 A-H (@mayanageneviere) — https://gondola.cc/mayanageneviere

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“I ‘went flat’ after the most miserable year of my life, when I opted for breast implants and reconstruction with my double mastectomy in May 2022. Immediately I knew my body was not handling the implants right, and I was developing something called Breast Implant Illness. Within weeks I’d developed a massive hematoma, and my chest swelled to five times it’s size. While I should’ve been given surgery right there and then to remove the implants, I was forced to wait and get sicker and sicker for an entire year. You could see the life force draining from me, and with each passing week I felt more and more physically limited, until I couldn’t even lift 10lbs without extreme discomfort.

Finally after a long several months of advocating for myself I was able to have the implants taken out, in a surgery called a bilateral explant, and within DAYS I was seeing vast improvements in my health. 

I am absolutely certain if I didn’t have the explant I was heading towards death. I wouldn’t have been the first person who’s lost their life to implants, and sadly I certainly won’t be the last one affected by them in this way. 

Since my experience I’ve decided to dedicate my body and my time to bringing awareness to #BreastImplantIllness and advocating for change in the healthcare industry best practices and standards to ensure we slow down on filling cancer warriors with black-box devices before they’ve even finished their treatments. 

I want to showcase my body to remind women that breasts or no breasts you are perfect, sexy, whole and feminine exactly as you are. No amount of plastic surgery can undo the trauma of a cancer diagnosis, and fake boobs can bring a lot higher risk of missing recurrences, significant health failures and many more things that quite frankly newly diagnosed cancer warriors shouldn’t have to deal with. 

Please share, comment, like and save my story and help spread the word to cancer pre-vivors, survivors and future warriors.” ~ christellasees 

Stay tuned for Christella’s upcoming feature to sharing her powerful story of reclaiming her health after breast cancer

Photography: alexannesolomon 
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