Shirley Ballas is having her breast implants removed.
The ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ judge has decided to undergo the medical procedure, over fears the implants would stop doctors from detecting any cancer.
She said: "I’ve been to a new doctor and I’m scheduled for the operation on Tuesday, October 29. My doctor says I have recuperation of a week, but I want to do Strictly on the Saturday night. It’s not like I have to dance and do the cha cha cha or the samba."I spoke to the BBC and they have been very, very supportive. They said you have to do what you feel most comfortable for your health."
And the 59-year-old dancer has been suffering with chronic fatigue and is worried her scar tissue from the original operation is because of that.
She added: "Assuming there is no cancer, we are debating whether to take out just the implants or the scar tissue as well. There are rumours that the scar tissues cause chronic fatigue which I have suffered with even over the last year. Usually I don’t get tired and I’m like an Energizer bunny. But if they take out the scar tissue the whole breast will collapse because it’s been holding everything in place around the implant. So it would involve bigger surgery and perhaps a reconstruction – you’d have to maybe take fat out of your tummy to rebuild the breasts. Or you put smaller implants in. But I don’t want any implants in. I don’t want any foreign bodies in my body."
And Shirley insists she completely regrets getting the implants done in the first place.
Speaking to The Sun newspaper, she said: "I did mine not to be vain but because I thought I looked ugly. If I could go back and talk to my younger self I would say, ‘Never get them done.’"But I did them because I had low self-esteem and no confidence. People told me, ‘Oh you’ve got a chest like two currants on a bread board.’ They would say they’re joking, but you still absorb it. It still goes in your mind."
Shirley Ballas is having breast implants removed
