By Emma Chance | Celebrity | August 10, 2023
On a recent episode of her podcast with wife Miranda Maday, The Best Podcast Ever With Raven & Miranda, Raven-Symoné revealed “she underwent multiple cosmetic procedures before the age of 18” (Entertainment Tonight) under the supervision of her father, Christopher B. Pearman.
“I had two breast reductions and lipo before I turned 18,” Symoné admitted. “My dad suggested, strongly, that I should get my breasts reduced. I was like, ‘If I get lipo, will people stop calling me fat?’”
She explained that she “disassociated” after the procedure and then suffered a seizure.
“The first one I had, I actually had a seizure when I woke up from the surgery and I remember waking up and seeing everything … and then I had this dry mouth and couldn’t breathe, and they were like, ‘Oh yeah, you had a seizure.’”
She gained weight after the first surgery, which prompted the second breast reduction, which she said took her from a size triple-D to a double-D.
“Even though I got the breast reduction, nobody knew at that age and I still got reamed through social media because I wasn’t as skinny as everybody else and they still called me fat. So it’s like, you get that done and it’s still not what everybody wanted to see.”
She advised against plastic surgery, saying, “If you want something changed in your body, live with it for a little bit longer to see if it changes. And get therapy before that happens.”
As for procedures that she would consider today, she said she would get an “eyebrow transplant.” She got her eyebrows tattooed on after years of shaving her natural brows and drawing them on with makeup, which was also encouraged by her father.
“There was a point in my career where my father was like, ‘Time to get your eyebrows taken off, they look too weird.’ And so I got them shaved off and then I started drawing them in.”
This isn’t the first childhood revelation to come out of Symoné’s new podcast venture, and based on her already well-known messy history with her father and with stardom in general, it probably won’t be the last.
