Kate Lawler has revealed she has undergone breast surgery after discovering that one of her implants had exploded.
The Big Brother winner, 45, opened up about the procedure which took place last week, explaining how she noticed her left breast had gone hard, prompting a visit to her GP.
‘I’ve had a boob job… a boob replacement,’ she explained on her podcast, Boj and Kate Have A Lot on Their Plate.
‘I got the surgery done five days ago so I’m still very much in the recovery period.’
The radio presenter, who shares four-year-old daughter Noa with husband Martin ‘Boj’ Bojtos, had initially undergone breast enlargement surgery in 2015.
She said: ‘Ten years ago, I had my boobs enlarged – a very subtle boob job. I went my whole life actually loving my boobies but then they started to fall a bit and I thought, I just want a lift.’
Kate Lawler has revealed she has undergone breast surgery after discovering that one of her implants had exploded
The Big Brother winner, 45, opened up about the procedure on her podcast, explaining how she noticed her left breast had gone hard, prompting a visit to her GP
She continued: ‘So I went and spoke to a surgeon, he was like, I’ll just give you a small implant. It’ll be the smallest we can go without it being too noticeable. I said, let’s do it.’
‘Ten years later, my left breast goes hard. I go to my GP. She refers me to a breast consultant. I think the worst.
‘She tells me that my left boob has encapsulated and it’s leaking. So I need to get it [the implant] out.’
An encapsulated implant occurs when scar tissue forms around it and tightens, causing hardness and discomfort.
An implant that has ruptured or is leaking – described informally as an ‘exploded’ implant – typically requires removal and replacement.
‘It can happen anytime from having the surgery until you need to get them out,’ Kate added. But they’re supposed to be replaced every 10 to 15 years anyway.’
The Virgin Radio presenter, who won the third series of Big Brother in 2002, went on to describe her surgery consultations with different doctors, including one whose behaviour shocked her.
‘He wasn’t for me,’ she said. ‘He was very rude, and he had just eaten a sandwich, and had sandwich in his teeth. I was like, mate, I’m coming for a consultation. At least just have a glass of water and get the sandwich residue from your teeth.’
‘I got the surgery done five days ago so I’m still very much in the recovery period,’ she confirmed
The 90-minute operation under general anaesthetic took place last Thursday, with Kate staying overnight in hospital
Kate added: ‘His bedside manner was appalling. I was in there for ten minutes. I was sat opposite him, on the other side of the desk, and he just went, “OK, take your top off”.’
‘Usually you’re told to go behind a curtain, there’s a chaperone, you take your clothes off and then you say, I’m ready, and then they come around and they examine you.
‘So I’m sat opposite him and then I just stand up, take my top off, take my bra off, and he just stares at my boobs and then pokes one of them, gets a tape measure out and goes, yeah, we can do it.
‘Then I went to a proper surgeon who spent an hour within the consultation with a nurse who escorted me behind the curtain and we got undressed and she said, are you ready? I chose the guy that was right for me – a really top surgeon.’
The 90-minute operation under general anaesthetic took place last Thursday, with Kate staying overnight in hospital.
She said: ‘I was nil by mouth from the day before. I spent all day really hungry and really thirsty because you know when they’re like, you can’t drink water, it just makes you more thirsty.
‘When I came around, I felt terribly sick. I was wheeled back into my hospital room and I just remember being so out of it.
‘For three hours I was in and out of consciousness. I kicked over the bedside table, which had a glass bottle and a glass on, smashed everything, all my stuff went everywhere.’
Kate’s attempts to contact her husband also descended into chaos when she inadvertently gave her visiting friend the wrong phone number. ‘He had to DM [Boj] on Instagram to say that I was okay.’
She added she has been trying to take it easy since the surgery but has struggled to follow doctor’s orders.
‘The surgeon said, please don’t do anything for the next 24 hours and no housework for a week,’ she said, ‘which I laughed at because I was like, well, the thing is, I do all the housework and my husband won’t.
‘That’s why I stayed in the hospital overnight. I didn’t have to – I could have gone home the same day.
‘I was like, I’ll stay in hospital overnight because I don’t trust myself to not start cleaning when I get home. But I was only doing little bits like cleaning the kitchen. I wasn’t raising my arms to open cupboards above my head.’
