By Alyce Collins

 

THIS MOTHER was pushed to get breast implants by her EX-BOYFRIEND, but she finally had them removed after eight years.

 

Ex-model turned speaker, Emily Nolan (32) from Washington, USA, had breast implants put in at the age of only 23-years-old to please her boyfriend at the time who told her that ‘real women have boobs’, despite not wanting them herself.

Emily with her implants before having them removed.
Emily Nolan / MDWfeatures

 

Emily had her implants done in 2009 after her boyfriend at the time, a baseball player from Venezuela, wasn’t happy with her chest size when they met and wanted her to have her breasts enhanced.

 

At the time, Emily wasn’t overly happy about going under the knife for the procedure but she wanted to do it so she could feel validated and make her boyfriend happy.

Emily after having her implants removed.
Emily Nolan / MDWfeatures

 

However, Emily knew she’d tolerated enough after years of pain in her shoulders and neck as a result of the weight of her size 36DD breasts as well as embarrassing fart-like noises coming from the implants whenever she would raise her arms.

 

When Emily met her now husband, Matt, who loved Emily for who she was, she began to consider the possibility of having her implants removed so she could be rid of the emotional and physical weight she had carried on her shoulders.

Part of Emily’s boob didn’t heal.
Emily Nolan / MDWfeatures

 

Emily had her explant surgery in September 2016 and since then she has been overjoyed to have her natural form back, enabling her to exercise properly again and even breastfeed her son, Oliver.

 

“I was a professional model at sixteen-years-old for eight years, until I decided to have my implants removed and pursue a healthier relationship with my body,” said Emily.

Emily after having her implants put in.
Emily Nolan / MDWfeatures

 

“My implants were put in when I was 23-years-old. I felt validated because I did it for a narcissistic boyfriend who told me ‘real women have boobs’.

 

“I carried the weight of his worthless opinion of my body around for eight years on my chest.

Emily wants to inspire others to have an explant if their implants are causing them health issues.
Emily Nolan / MDWfeatures

 

“After the procedure I couldn’t believe that women really go through such pain to look a different way. That being said, I would have never admitted that truth at the time because I didn’t want anyone to think I was going back on a decision I already had to change my body.

 

“My ex used to tell me that my implants weren’t big enough and that they didn’t look like the women back home in Venezuela.

Emily before her surgery.
Emily Nolan / MDWfeatures

 

“We split up after I moved to Miami when I was 24. It wasn’t that serious a relationship, in fact he was probably in another relationship – or five others – at the same time and I had no clue.

 

“The reason we broke up was because he was a baseball player and had to go back to his country for an injury rehabilitation, so I didn’t see him for a long time.

Emily in 2016 after having her implants removed.
Emily Nolan / MDWfeatures

 

“I had a lot of pain in my shoulders and neck from the weight of my breasts during exercise. I also experienced a weird sensation when I visited cities at high altitude or went for a hike because my implants would tighten under my chest and create a suction effect under my muscle.

 

“Also, whenever I’d lift my arms, say to hug a friend, the implants would make an awful, not to mention embarrassing, fart noise. You could hear the noise every time I raised my arms, which was truly the straw that broke the camel’s back for me.

Emily had her implants removed in 2016.
Emily Nolan / MDWfeatures

 

“The noise was a constant and embarrassing reminder of a bad decision I’d made earlier in my life.

 

“As I fell in love with my husband and matured out of my 20s, I had a lot more confidence and self-acceptance. My body is not a beauty equation, but a beautiful, incredibly strong and resilient life-giving ‘Earth suit’.

Emily with her son Oliver.
Emily Nolan / MDWfeatures

 

“With my implants, I was afraid of getting an infection and the requirement to surgically replace implants every ten years, especially with my bloody clotting factor which makes surgery very risky.

 

“Following a visit to Santa Fe and hearing the suction noises under my chest, I knew it wasn’t healthy to have them in my body. I am happily married to a man who didn’t care if I had implants or not, so I wanted to delete the bad decision I’d made for another man.

Emily had the implants for eight years.
Emily Nolan / MDWfeatures

 

“It felt very strange to have the weight of that old decision on my chest while I was married to a good man who loved me for who I am.”

 

Emily went from originally being a size 36B up to a 36DD and is now back to her original size. Since having her explant surgery in September 2016, Emily contracted an infection which required a second minor surgery as the wound didn’t heal properly.

Emily was worried she wouldn’t be able to nurse her son Oliver with implants.
Emily Nolan / MDWfeatures

 

Once she’d recovered, Emily was able to get back into fitness as she hadn’t been able to exercise properly the whole time she had implants. With her implants, Emily was 1st 4lbs heavier because any fitness would hurt her neck and shoulders, going from 12st 5lbs to 11st 1lbs.

 

“I am proud of the woman I am. I believe being a mother has really shown me how incredible my body or ‘Earth suit’ as I like to call it, can be,” said Emily.

Emily ran the Paris Marathon after having her explant.
Emily Nolan / MDWfeatures

 

“I don’t have to thin or have breast implants to carry a baby, birth him and sustain him solely by my breasts.

 

“I’m so glad I can look past doctored images of ‘picture-perfect’ social media pages and have confidence that the path I’m on is right for me.

Emily at the hospital before her explant.
Emily Nolan / MDWfeatures

 

“If you’re a healthy candidate for an explant and thinking about getting your implants removed, then go for it. It was one of the greatest and most empowering decisions I’ve made to return to my natural Earth suit and learn to love its natural form.

 

“Don’t be afraid of what your breasts will look post-surgery. I’ve never met a woman who had an explant and regretted it. My breasts went back to the way they were pre-surgery, and I had large implants for eight years.

Emily on the way home after her surgery.
Emily Nolan / MDWfeatures

 

“I recommend not getting a breast lift, or at least talk to your surgeon about it because the lift can dramatically reduce your chances of breast feeding. I had an explant and capsulectomy and I’m able to breast feed just fine.”

 

You can read more about Emily’s journey to self-acceptance by visiting her blog emilynolan.com or her Instagram, @iamemilynolan.