The former IndyCar and NASCAR driver opens up about the health setbacks that she experienced after she got breast implants in 2014, before showing how she's got better immediately after the removal surgery.
- Apr 30, 2022
AceShowbiz - Danica Patrick is happier and healthier without breast implants. The former professional racing driver revealed that she got breast augmentation in 2014, but has now decided to remove them after suffering major health issues which she believes were caused by the implants.
The 40-year-old got candid about her health setbacks in an Instagram post on Friday, April 29. In a lengthy caption, she wrote, "I wasn't sure I was ready to share this.... but then I remembered that true vulnerability is sharing something you’re not really ready to. So here it is."
"I got breast implants November of 2014. I got them because I want to have it all," she explained. "I was really fit, but I didn't have boobs. So I got them. Everything went well, and I was happy with them."
But in early 2018, Danica started noticing her hair "was not as healthy and was breaking off." She "also gained a few pounds and had no luck losing it."
By 2020, the former IndyCar driver claimed "the wheels came off" and she suffered more severe symptoms. "I had cycle irregularity, gained more weight, my hair wasn't looking healthy at all and my face was a different shape (weird I know)," she continued.
"So I went down the rabbit hole to figure it out. I did every test that could be done," she wrote. She listed an extensive list of prodromes she suffered, including hypothyroidism, heavy metal toxicity, adrenal fatigue, temperature sensitivity, face swelling, weight gain and hair loss.
On Wednesday, Danica decided to undergo a surgery to remove her implants. "Within hours after surgery this is what I noticed," she wrote as she posted photos of her face before and after the surgery. She noted, "my face had more color and less dark circles (no food before the second pic), my face started producing oil again, I could take a 30% deeper breath into my chest already, and I had so much energy when I woke up (and surgery was at 2:30 p.m.)."
On her Instagram Story, Danica also shared photos of herself being driven home from the hospital. "Feeling….well nothing I was pretty hopped up on meds riding home. But look at my face color!" she wrote over one pic. "Then I smiled," she added in another.
The former girlfriend of Aaron Rodgers then revealed that the bandage and drains that she has to wear have been the "most annoying part" of having her implants removed. "Other than my little veins taking 4 tries in the OR," she joked.
