14 DAY TRIAL // Heidi Montag has learned her lesson and she’ll tell it to you as many times as you want – and then some more, even if you have lost interest. While in Cabo San Lucas to celebrate her 5-year wedding anniversary with Spencer Pratt, the former reality star also staged a couple of paparazzi photo-ops and, of course, spoke about her plastic surgery.
A few years back, Heidi underwent 10 different procedures in one single day, because she wanted to transform herself into the real-life version of a Barbie doll. Just recently, she had to have her huge breast implants removed on health considerations.
This is not the first time she cautions other women not to go down the same path she’s been on, though it is probably a first when she blames her “makeover” on social pressure. Until now, she maintained she did it because she wanted it, so it was for no one else, then because she got duped into getting all that surgery.
We’re probably going to hear other versions of the same story in the interviews to come.
“I definitely regret the surgeries that I have had over the years, I think I was so young and in such an unstable situation in my life with so much going on and so much pressure,” she says, as cited by the Daily Mail.
“It is really hard to be a woman in this day and age with all the media and internet and comments, there is so much more negativity coming at people, it is a lot easier to be insecure and let that get to me,” Heidi continues.
“I let myself be a victim of that and I listened to what other people said and let myself become really insecure and I had a doctor that made it sound really easy and a quick fix and it ended up being a hard road and I inflicted a lot of pain, mentally and physically, on myself. If I had to go back and do it again I definitely wouldn't and I would not recommend that,” she adds.
She says her huge implants “handicapped” her because she was no longer able to do anything she’d done before, from running her dog to doing laundry. Add to that the physical pain she was in, and you understand why she’s filled with regret she didn’t see another specialist before getting her huge implants.
“My experience should tell other young women that beauty and confidence comes from within, it does not matter what you do on the outside if you are not happy and do not feel beautiful and secure and confident on the inside then no amount of surgery will change that or make you happier. There are dangerous repercussions to it. I thought that plastic surgery was easy but it is really serious and is not something you want to mess around with,” Heidi stresses.
“The Hills” ended a while back but Heidi has managed to stay in the headlines all these years precisely for the amount of plastic surgery she’s gotten: first for getting it and then for regretting it and having it fixed, where possible.
Her motives for speaking out again may be questionable (i.e. she wouldn’t be doing it if she weren’t paid) but clearly, her message is a healthy one: if you’re thinking of getting “mini brow lift, Botox in [the] brow and frownline area; a nose job; fat injections in [the] cheeks, nasolabial folds and lips; chin reduction; neck liposuction; ears pinned back; a breast augmentation revision; liposuction on [the] waist, hips and inner and outer thighs; and a buttock augmentation” (per the Mail), all in one day, just don’t.