Raven-Symoné Regrets "Hastily Done" Breast Reduction Surgery as a Teen

Oct 07, 2026 - 01:04
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Raven-Symoné Regrets "Hastily Done" Breast Reduction Surgery as a Teen

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Raven-Symoné is gazing into her past with plastic surgery.

The That's So Raven alum opened up about undergoing a breast reduction procedure as a teen, saying that she wishes she "was stronger to say no" to the pressure she felt from the adults around her at the time.

"I should have done it after puberty," Raven admitted on a recent episode of the Allure Perspectives podcast. "I mean, they still look good, but it was hastily done."

As for whether she’d call the procedure a regret, the 40-year-old candidly said, "Yes, because I was too young."

Especially since her younger self never had an issue with her larger breasts. As Raven-Symoné recalled with a laugh, "Oh girl, I got into anything! I was first in line."

"Push these little babies up, they get you anywhere," she quipped. "These triple Ds were popping."

And now, the Cheetah Girls star is around 80 percent comfortable in her own skin, a drastic jump from what she said was "10 percent back in the day" at the height of her Disney Channel fame.

She added, "Me and my chest have conversations on the regular."

As for why the Raven's Home actress went through with her breast reduction surgery? 

"Someone said I needed to do it in order to get a show," she revealed in a 2024 episode of her and wife Miranda Pearman-Maday's Tea Time podcast. "At the same time, I was like, 'If you're going to take my boobs out, I want lipo. One for one, bro. Let's go.'"

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In the end, Raven said she underwent a "twofer" in getting both a breast reduction and liposuction, adding that she "had to go back for a quick little" procedure after gaining some weight.

"Because when you gain weight, those boobs come back no matter what," she explained. "I have scars. I still have scar tissue to this day."

For more celebs speaking out about their own experience with plastic surgery, keep reading...

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Jennifer Lawrence

The Oscar winner admitted she “can’t really get very much done” in order to maintain "movement in my face,” but she has volunteered as tribute on some procedures.

“I get baby Botox, but I can't do a lot,” she told Vogue in September 2026. “If my skin is going to be a little saggier than I would like, at least it looks dewy and pretty.”

But while she has she has gone through with the Botox, she won't bite the bullet on another popular procedure.

“I would love to have a buccal fat removal,” she added of the minor plastic surgery, where fat pads are removed from the lower cheeks for a slimmer look. “I can’t because everybody would know, but just know that I want that.”

As for the viral trend she's scared of?

“Oh, I’m really nervous about these fat transfers,” she noted. “I support other people doing them because I want to continue to watch and see what happens, but I don’t know about that.”

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Alexa Lemieux

The Love Is Blind season three alum shared that she had gotten a boob job amid her divorce from husband Brennon Lemieux. 

"I'm officially day five post-surgery and I feel pretty much back to normal for the most part," she shared in her January 2026 TikTok video. "I did a lift and an implant. Recovery hasn't been as tough as I thought that it would be. This is a surgery that I have been wanting to do for quite some time now, really, since I stopped breastfeeding my daughter. My girls just never set the same as they did before."

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Alexis Bellino

The Real Housewives of Orange County star treated herself to an early 50th birthday present in 2026 by going under the knife for a mini-facelift.

"My kids and husband all fought me on this decision saying 'mom/wife you don't need it, please don't do it, what can we do to talk you out of it," she recounted on Instagram. "But look at the results!!!! And now my husband and kids are all so happy with the results!!!!!! And truth is, it's MY decision, not theirs."

"I'm  loving every minute of my next decade and my 'refresh'!!!!!!!!" Alexis added. "It's subtle, but it's AMAZING!!!!"

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Rulla Pontarelli

The Real Housewives of Rhode Island star debuted a new look during the Bravo series' season one reunion, whiched aired in June 2026.

"After 25 years of debate," Rulla shared, "I finally decided to go ahead and get my rhinoplasty and a very minuscule lip lift while I was at it."

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Julia Fox

The Uncut Gems actress shared that she sometimes regrets the reasons she underwent her past cosmetic surgeries, which include liposuction, a rhinoplasty, veneers, Botox and fillers.

“When I see someone and I can tell they've never done anything,” she told Allure in August 2025, “I wish I could go back and be that person. I was so hung up on this idea that I needed to be attractive to men so that I could survive.”

Still, she admitted, “I probably will [get more work done one day], but I'm just not as concerned with it right now.”

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Brielle Biermann

The Real Housewives of Atlanta alum reversed her under-eye filler—which she got right after turning 18—on E!'s makeover series Botched Presents: Plastic Surgery Rewind.

"My skin is tighter," the reality star noted during the July 2025 episode. "I feel more youthful, more beautiful, more confident than ever before."

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Larissa Santos Lima

The 90 Day Fiancé alum debuted a jaw-dropping transformation after deciding to remove her gigantic breast implants on the July 30, 2025 episode of E!'s makeover series Botched Presents: Plastic Surgery Rewind.

"This reversal has been one of the most liberating and healing decisions I’ve ever made," Larissa exclusively told E! News after downsizing from 1,500 cc implants to 700 cc implants.. "It feels like I reclaimed a part of myself that I had put aside for the sake of an image, for expectations that weren’t truly mine."

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Barbara Corcoran

The Shark Tank star shared a laundry list of plastic surgery and cosmetic procedures she's undergone over the years in a June 2025 Instagram post.

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Andy Cohen

The Watch What Happens Live host, who had been open through the years about never getting Botox, revealed in March 2025 that he had embarked on his cosmetic journey and finally got the injectable procedure, which aims to reduce wrinkles.

"I just got it for the first time in my life," he said during the season 11 reunion episode of Married to Medicine. "About a month ago. They gave me a little."

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Raven-Symoné

The That's So Raven alum underwent a breast reduction surgery as a teen, a procedure she went on to regret.

"I should have done it after puberty," Raven-Symoné shared on a 2026 episode of the Allure Perspectives podcast. "I mean, they still look good, but it was hastily done. I wish I was stronger to say no."

According to the former Disney Channel star, adults around her at the time had told her that she "needed to do it in order to get a show."

"At the same time, I was like, 'If you're going to take my boobs out, I want lipo,'" she said in a 2025 episode of her Tea Time podcast. "Because when you gain weight, those boobs come back no matter what."

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Martha Stewart

After years of denying cosmetic procedures, the lifestyle expert confessed in a February 2024 episode of her eponymous podcast that she gets Botox, fillers and lasers to tighten her skin. "I don't think a lot about age," she explained, "but I don't want to look my age."

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Jana Kramer

The One Tree Hill alum discussed her cosmetic procedures—including Botox and getting breast implants—on her Whine Down podcast in February 2024. During the episode, she confessed her one qualm about her boob job.

“My biggest regret with my boobs is that I don't know if I solely did it for me,” Jana said. “My biggest piece of advice is it has to be 100 percent for you.”

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Ariana Grande

In a Vanity Fair video released September 2024, the Wicked actress shared, "I've had fillers in various places and Botox, but I stopped like, four years ago. And that is the extent."

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Kailyn Lowry

The Teen Mom 2 alum, a mother of seven, underwent a Brazlian butt lift and tummy tuck in 2016, and another tummy tuck, liposuction and breast reduction surgery in December 2024.

A month later, she spoke candidly about wrestling with her body image.

"I pray that my kids never struggle with their body images enough to mutilate their bodies to be skinny," she said on Instagram. "I think a little nip and tuck in terms of a nose job, or like a boob job is OK. But to go through this to be skinny is mental illness, truly. And I say that with the most respect to anyone going through it."

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Gypsy Rose Blanchard

Blanchard underwent a rhinoplasty and septoplasty (nose job) in April 2024, three months after she was released from prison (where she served seven years for her role in the murder of her mother Clauddine "Dee Dee" Blanchard).

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Caroline Stanbury

The Real Housewives of Dubai star publicly documented her November 2023 face lift and the recovery on social media.

"I wanted people to see how, when you come out, the scars and the cuts and what it really looks like," she exclusively told E! News of the procedure. "I literally looked like I'd been in a car crash and the car had won, but five days later you're presentable. Ten days later I was in a restaurant completely fine."

As for why the Bravo star was so open about her face lift journey? As she noted, "Being on a reality TV show, obviously it's going to look weird if I come back next season looking 10 years younger, which I do, obviously."

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Selena Gomez

Part of the price of beauty for the "Who Says" singer: The occasional dabble with Botox.

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Brandi Glanville

The former Bravo star has been candid about her plastic surgery procedures in the past, including getting a nose job, having breast implants and dabbling with Botox and filler. And in 2024, she turned to CellSound's body sculpting treatment to tighten her stomach.

"I have actual abs," she told People in an interview published March 2024. "I have lines on my stomach that I haven't had since before I got pregnant. I think any mother knows after kids the elasticity of your skin will never be the same."

She also revealed in April 2025 that she's spent over $113,000 seeking treatment for a mysterious facial parasite.

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Ariana Madix

Responding to an Instagram user who accused the Vanderpump Rules star of getting lip filler, Botox, jawline contouring with liposuction and eyelid surgery, Madix clapped back by confirming all of her past cosmetic procedures. 

“i’ll tell you what i’ve had!” she wrote on Instagram in July 2024. “you’re partially correct. tox in 11’s, outer brow, and my neck. ellevate for my neck in 2019 by @theneckdoctor minimal lip filler bc my face is too small to handle very much and filler in my chin. absolutely no filler anywhere else and def no bleph yet. hope this helps! i’ll keep yall posted if i do anything else.”

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Jill Zarin

"I'm bravely sharing that I had a lower facelift and a couple other minor tweaks," Zarin said in a June 2024 Instagram video, with a black bandage wrapped around her head. "I had a fat transplant put into my hands because I hated my hands, and the worst part was the lipo coming out of my leg to fill my hands. Believe it or not, that's the most pain I've had."

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Brittany Cartwright

The Valley star revealed she underwent facial liposuction before filming the Bravo spinoff.

"I had work done on my double chin. We call it the turkey gobbler, runs in my family," she said on the March 2024 episode of her When Reality Hits podcast. "No matter what I was going through, no matter how much weight I lost, I still felt I had something there."

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Lily Allen

Following her breakup from Stranger Things' David Harbour, the "Smile" singer revealed she got "additions" in the way of a boob job.

"They look really incredible when I take my top off and my bra off," she shared on a March 2025 episode of her Miss Me? podcast. "But there's definitely a contrast in age between my breasts and my face."

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Tori Spelling

The Beverly Hills, 90210 star has spoken publicly about her nose job and her breast implants.

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Sharon Osbourne

In addition to getting candid on using Ozempic for weight loss, the talk show host admitted that her 2021 facelift was "the worst thing that I ever did," explaining in December 2023, "I looked like Cyclops."

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Lady Gaga

"I've never had any work-work done, but I went through a phase when I was smoking pot when I was really obsessed with getting facial injections," the "Born This Way" singer told radio host Howard Stern in 2013. "I was going to this strip mall in Chicago in the back…Everybody was like, 'You are a nut job.'...I'm telling you, I wasn't exactly in the best frame of mind, and I would smoke a bunch of joints and have some drinks and I would be like, 'Oh, let's go see my girl' and we would drive to this strip mall and I would get shot up with a bunch of whatever, Juvéderm, and then leave."

She continued, "Now all the stuff is gone. Before I shot the 'Applause' video, [a photographer friend] was like, 'Gaga, I love you but if you don't stop injecting s--t in your face I'm going to just kill you.'"

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Bethenny Frankel

The Real Housewives of New York star got breast implants in 2005, but removed them in 2008.

"Now I feel comfortable," she told Life & Style. "If there's something you're not comfortable with and you can correct it, great."

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Olivia Colman

The Crown star revealed that she's a fan of Botox. "I've had loads," the actress told BBC Radio 2.

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Julie Chen

In 2013, The Talk co-host revealed on the show that she got plastic surgery at the beginning of her career in order to make her eyes look bigger.

"And after I had it done, the ball did roll for me," she said. "And I wondered, did I give in to the man?"

She added, "I have to live with every decision that I've made. And it got me to where we are today. And I'm not going to look back."

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Jamie Lee Curtis

"I've done it all," the actress told The Telegraph in 2002. "I've had a little plastic surgery. I've had a little lipo. I've had a little Botox. And you know what? None of it works. None of it."

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Jennifer Aniston

"I had [a deviated septum] fixed—best thing I ever did," the actress told People in 2007. "I slept like a baby for the first time in years. As far as all the other [rumors], as boring as it sounds, it's still mine. All of it. Still mine."

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