Crystal Hefner
One of the celebrities who recently went through the procedure is Crystal Hefner, the wife of Hugh Hefner and a former Playboy model. Facebook/Crystal Hefner

More women are going for explant breast surgeries, instead of having silicone implants, because of the risks to their health the foreign material causes. One of the celebrities who recently went through the procedure is Crystal Hefner, the wife of Hugh Hefner and a former Playboy model.

Hefner wrote an article in Inquistr titled “Explant Breast Surgery: Why Women Are Getting Their Breast Implants Removed” which she posted in April on her Facebook page with more than 5 million followers. She followed it up with a personal story, posted on Tuesday, July 19, titled “My Breasts Implants Slowly Poisoned Me.”

The post, which she also shared on Instagram, got almost 7,000 likes within two hours of posting, while in Facebook, it got over 1,500 reactions and was shared more than 200 times.

Hefner writes that among the symptoms of the breast implants slowly poisoning her body were intolerance to foods and beverages, unexplained back pain, constant neck and should pain, cognitive dysfunction, stunted hair growth, incapacitating fatigue, among others. She recalls the mildest of the symptoms began a few years ago, such as the aches, bladder pain, brain fog and fatigue, which she just ignored, reports Daily Mail.

Crystal Hefner Pre-Surgery
Before the symptoms appeared, Crystal Hefner went to the gym five times a week. Facebook/Crystal Hefner

The former Playboy model thought she was just a hypochondriac and joked that the memory loss is a result of aging. Her gym routine of five days a week, along with shooting and other work, had to stop when she could not get out of bed for several days in 2016.

“The fatigue was so severe that I could barely leave the house or drove,” she recalls. She was diagnosed with Lyme disease and toxic mold but got comments that her symptoms resembled Breast Implant Illness. When she read a website and Facebook group with almost 3,000 members, Hefner found that her symptoms matched the members’.

Implants, whether silicone or saline, break down around 8 to 10 years after these are implanted. When it does, the shell on the implants and 40 other toxic materials such as tin, zinc, cadmium, mercury and arsenic spreads in the body and wreak havoc.

As more women like Hefner, an Arizona native who married the Playboy magazine founder in 2012, reverse the enhancement procedure they underwent years ago, breast implant removal surgery rose to become the 10th most popular surgery in the US.

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