RHOC star Leanne Brown reveals her fake boobs were slowly killing her after party-goer groped her breast
LEANNE Brown has revealed she had her fake boobs removed because they were poisoning her body.
The Real Housewives Of Cheshire star gave the pictures of her misshapen and calcified implants to The Sun in a bid to warn others of the dangers of having the procedure.
Speaking exclusively to us just a week after the surgery, Leanne said she was stunned when she saw the state of her implants, which she’d had put in when she was 26-years-old.
Following the operation, she was told her left implant had been leaking gel into her body following an incident on a night out, where a party-goer grabbed her breast.
Shockingly, Leanne – who is married to ex Manchester United ace Wes Brown – admitted she’d never have known about the damage if she hadn’t of had her implants removed, after a mammogram didn’t show up any issues.
Leanne, 42, said: “I’ve been living with this awful pain and have been feeling so ill for years but now my implants are out, I already feel better.
“I had a mammogram and it didn’t show anything up because of the fatty tissue there, but I knew something wasn’t right.
“I was so shocked when my surgeon showed the implants to me. Both of them were so calcified and my left implant was completely misshapen.
“There was an incident a few years back where someone grabbed my left breast. The reason I was having pains, it turns out, is because there was a gel bleed. It wasn’t a total rupture but the trauma the implant had saw the bleed start. It was really scary to find that out.
“To me the calcification, looks like a mould, it’s disgusting. When it happens it causes the tissue to harden and this is what happened to my implants.
“The capsule around the implants were really thick but my brilliant surgeon managed to get it all out. Sometimes they can’t and there is some of it left inside you.
“Of course I have friends who’ve had boob jobs and it’s all worked out fine. But I want young women to know it’s not all a fairy tale and there are real dangers after you’ve had your implants put in.”
Leanne first booked in for a breast enlargement aged 21, before having the implants replaced five years later.
She started suffering from pains in her breasts, as well struggling with chronic fatigue in the years that followed.
It was only when she started researching her symptoms that she discovered other women suffering from similar problems – all of whom had undergone breast enlargement.
Leanne explained: “I had joint pain, muscle pain, dry skin and hair, pains in my breasts. The list goes on.
“The more I researched and looked into it, the more I realised other women were struggling too. I found and joined the UK Breast Implant Illness Facebook awareness page and it was full of other women with the same problem as me.
“There is a huge amount of research still needed into this but if you looked at it in the simplest terms, women are suffering from these symptoms. They then have the implants removed and these symptoms go away.”
Leanne spent a year weighing up her options and visited four different surgeons before deciding to have her implants taken out.
She added: “I didn’t want to rush into anything and I wanted a surgeon who understood why I was having it done.
“I took advice from others on the Facebook group which was hugely helpful. But some of the attitude of the surgeons was shocking.
“One said to me, ‘If I had an injection that said that would make you 30 years old for the rest of your life but it is going to give you a chronic back pain then would you take it?” I thought that was such a flippant thing to say to a woman who’s breast implants were making her feel so ill.
“I ended up going with a surgeon based in Birmingham, Dr Guy Stern, who was recommended to me on the Facebook group and he was absolutely fantastic.
“He put me completely at ease and he believed what I was saying. So many women are suffering from this and they need help.”
Leanne is now learning to adjust to having smaller breasts and said she wouldn’t rule out having a fat transfer.
But when asked what warning she would give to young women, Leanne said she wanted to urge them to think twice.
She said: “At the moment it feels really daunting – my whole adult life I’ve had implants so to now have natural breasts is going to take a real adjustment.
“But when I have looked in the mirror, I have realised that I actually prefer my natural body and shape. For years I’ve always had these massive boobs, so to now have smaller, more natural breasts feels better for my body shape.
“I have three daughters and I’ve been incredibly open with them. I want other young women to look at my implants, to look at what I have gone through and think twice about whether having implants is worth it.
“Since I started researching into it I have learned so much more than the surgeons ever told me. You get told there is a risk your body could reject the implant – and of course there is the danger of going under with an anaesthetic.
“But they don’t tell you they could tear inside and you leak into your body? Or that enzymes attack the implant as a foreign body.
“They don’t tell you calcium deposits can build up on the tissue making your implants rock hard. And then there’s the pain, the fatigue – all of it.
“I would say to any young woman, do you research and think long and hard about whether you really want implants because in the long term, you could live to regret them.”