Dr. Bednar is the BEST for breast fat transfer

I wanted to increase my breast size and didn’t want the long term risks of implants. Specifically, I didn’t want to have to ever have to explant for any reason, and I didn’t want to risk having to have my breast tissue removed because of implants. Fat transfer requires liposuction which is never fun and healing from liposuction was by far the most difficult part of the procedure. You also have to keep a specific diet and workout regimen for a long time. No booze, no smoking anything for 4 months. No HIIT for 3 months. But my great reward was some very lovely breasts that will never need replacement! My boobs are just me and my fat. Dr. Bednar is the guy to go to. Follow the directions from his office and they will give your best chance of fat survival when transferring fat to your breasts. Dr. Bednar transferred 565cc’s to each breast. I’m 2.5months post op and have gone from a B cup to a D cup. Expected results are 1 to 1.5 cup sizes for someone with my circumstances (no prior surgeries, 35, healthy, followed the directions, had plenty of breast tissue to work with from the beginning). This was a tough recovery for me, but 100% worth it - I couldn’t be happier with my results. Recovery seems to be easier for most other folks, but it just depends on the individual. This doctor and his team offer a first class experience, (plus, a Facebook group for moral support!). They really are the best and I recommend them wholeheartedly.

Here’s a photo taken 2 months postoperatively, with 1 month remaining for estimated recovery. Fat retention seems to have stabilized at this point for me.

I’m two days away from my 3-month post-op mark so I went to Victoria’s Secret to get fitted for a bra today. I know VS sizing is super whack, so I took this with a grain of salt, but there’s a reason the use whacky sizing - it makes us ladies feel good to hear we have a much larger bra size than we initially thought. I will tell you - I measured myself and I am technically 32D. However, 32 bra straps rarely feel comfortable for me, so I don’t really know what my real bra size is now. I was previously comfortable in a 34B bra and 34C bra.
VS claims I’m now a 34DD or 32DDD. Yikes! Sounds huge, right? But naw. They actually look SUPER natural. I basically just look like I’m gifted in the chest area. Not a Dolly Parton look at all, IMO. I’ll include a photo of what I look like in a t-shirt and unlined, wireless bra to portray what I consider not outrageous. I’ll also include a pic of those very same girls in an unlined, wired bra, and no top so you can see what I’m now working with under the hood. Again, it looks like I’m just gifted - maybe darn gifted - in the chest area.
Part of how I know that these babies just do not look like implants is the huge difference I see when I wear a bra. Implants make your boobs look like they’re always in a bra, even when no bra is present. Incredibly beautiful but not necessarily real. A great look but with some risks of complications that I wasn’t up for, even though I love the look. My fat transfer boobies look like real boobies. They have a shape that is not the same as a boobie in a bra. Personally, I find it very sexy. It’s like you take the bra off and find this very real thing underneath. It’s just straight up mesmerizing.
I love that what I have there is all me and there is no device inside me. All of my concerns about breast shape are improved with this surgery, and with a bra, they just look even more awesome.
Now, let’s talk about a little reality to go along with all this awesome. When your breast size changes, you have to get used to a new normal. You can just pick up your regular size XS, or size S tee and expect it to fit. I went shopping today and picked up 20 tops to try on in the fitting room. 2 of them fit. My selection was terrible. Nothing fits the way it used to and I don’t know what does fit, so I try on all these clothes and it’s like getting used to a new skin - ya feel a little awkward. Everything feels like it’s smushing my boobs and it is! I try to stuff these big ladies into their old Tupperware container, and things just start spilling out and it’s very messy. I have to get all new tops and I don’t want to shop for them because I don’t feel comfortable seeing how I look in my best guess of what size I should wear.
I’m a specialty size now. This is the new normal. I can still shop at my old stores, but I’m not gunna have a home run with my old sizing. I’m going to need a bigger size and I need to get stuff tailored. Trying to stuff my new boobs into my old size is, unfortunately, just not going to cut it.
Having bigger breasts can make you look a little heavier set in outfits where the waist is not visible. Especially for someone like me who has naturally thick arms. So, not only does the old sizing not work, the old cuts have to change too. And no, low-cut tops are not a catchall solution. Low-cut tops show off my new assets, but those new assets can actually make me look heavier if the top I’m wearing conceals my waist too much. That extra weight is not something I’m used to seeing on myself and can be a little tough. I also gained 4 lbs since my surgery. Even though I love my boobs, and my whole body for that matter, I don’t feel 100% comfortable in my skin right now. I think this will improve now that I have some bras that fit, and I can start back on my normal workout routine. And, I have my whole life to figure out how to shop for this new frame.
Ladies if you are getting an augmentation and you are not in a good place with living your body, learn to love your body first because an augmentation CAN NOT fix that for you. Grabbing a 32DDD bra might sound cool to some, but when I picked that thing up and looked at it I thought - this does not look like a bra for a thin woman. It’s just a bit of a mental hurdle I needed to jump through: “Baby, you’re not fat - you had a freaking breast augmentation. It’s ooohhhhhkay.” If you have body image issues an augmentation will be more difficult for you. You NEED to clear that up BEFORE. Thankfully, my body image and I are in a pretty decent place so I can recognize that when I try on a top and my boobs look like snoopy - I just shouldn’t buy that shirt. The boobs are not the problem. I just kept on trying on different shirt and eventually I was marveling at how much I looked like Scarlet Johansson. Ha!
Even if Victoria’s Secret sizing is off in la-la-land, I would recommend getting sized for whatever brand of bra you buy after an augmentation. Ask about where the bra should be worn on the rib cage, where the breast tissue should lay relative to the cup or underwire, and what qualities in a bra would make the thing more comfortable for you. When you have big boobs, these things need a good fitting bra. You can’t get away with cute little bralettes anymore.
What’s more? You need to have realistic expectations about what your surgery will achieve. A breast fat transfer is not going to make you look like a Victoria’s Secret model, okay? If you didn’t look like one before surgery, your FT won’t change that. If you did - well, you won’t after this surgery because you’re going to have bigger boobs than a VS model. In any case, you don’t look like a VS model. Those models are very thin and in their early 20s. Thin women very rarely have naturally large breasts. VS models look the way they do because they’re wearing push-up bras and they have a team of people pushing all their bits into the perfect position for every shots. They don’t show ya any of the “bad” shots. They pick just the surreal looking photos to share with us, and then they edit the heck out of them, photoshop out their ribs etc. A fat transfer will give you real results. That is not the same thing as what you see in your VS catalog. So come into this with your eyes open and have realistic expectations about what this surgery can do for you: It can give you fuller breasts which may give the breasts a more youthful shape; It can otherwise improve the shape of your breast if the doctor is a badass, like Dr. B, and can sculpt you some fine ones. That’s basically what it does from my POV - fuller and a different shape. That can mean a great deal to a woman who is dissatisfied with her breasts, so believe me I don’t mean to undersell it. This IS great stuff!!
Still reading? Okay...scar tissue. Yep. I have that. Detectives scour a crime scene for evidence because when a thing occurs, there is often evidence of how it came to be. Well, the evidence of fat transfer for me is great [RS bleep], and scarring. Most of the scars are very minor. The two under my butt cheek are a little different, but still pretty minor and they are concealed in what I have of a butt-cheek-crease (which is very little, due to some incredible liposuction that was part of my FT procedure with Dr. Bednar). I’m not going to butter it up though - I am a very white woman and I have one small, dark purple scar under each butt cheek. Each is less than a CM. Yeah, I’m a little self-conscious about it, but this is part of me now. It’s like a jagged tooth or an underbite - if you got it, and ya ain’t trying to change it, then you best be learning to love it, ‘cause this is the only self ya got. So, my self has purple scars on her butt, and big boobs. A worthwhile trade-off for me, it a trade-off nonetheless. FWIW - I don’t think those two scars healed quite properly because my other scars look significantly better. None of them are purple, and they are generally less raised than the ones on my tush.
Third to last potentially negative consideration- getting back to normal activity has been tough. I did my first forearm plank last week, and grossly misjudged what I was ready for. My pec. minor was spawned as a result. My whole left arm went numb, and parts of (what I thought was) my breast stung! Turns out it was just this peculiar minor issue, not a stroke, Irving wrong with my new, beloved fatter boobs - Phew! Getting back to normal activity may not be an error-free process. My first day back at the gym after month 1 - I could barely walk for the next three days. Not error free.
Second to last - massages! They have been so critical to my recovery, and they have added a significant expense to my expected surgery costs. If you can’t afford them, you’ll be fine. But if you can, expect your surgery budget to need to be adjusted to accommodate these treatment sessions. My therapist cut me a deal, so I paid $80 /60mins and went 3 days a week for about two months straight. Not cheap, but so helpful and worth it. For example, my therapist figured out my pec. minor issue. Total godsend.
Last (purely) negative thing - you may need to alter your sexual behavior to be inline with your post-op exercise directives. If you’re normally Ms. Enthusiasm, you might need to tone things back during recovery. That can be extra difficult if you live with your partner AND you’re normally a stomach sleeper. Such sleepers may want to choose to sleep with body pillows on each side to keep from flipping over (you can’t sleep on your side or stomach for 3 months and the body pillow solution is what the Dr’s office recommends for folks who sleep that way). So, I was already feeling isolated by my pillow fort, and then even more distance was put between me and my partner because I couldn’t do the deed using my typical level of engagement. But hey - that’s all over now, plus I have fuller breast with a shape that is more desirable to me.
This last last one is both good and bad - when you lose fat or get dehydrated after FT your boobs shrink (temporarily, until you gain the fat back or drink some water). The miraculous upside - when you gain fat, your freaking boobs get bigger! Yesssssss!!!!
I’ll post updated photos later this week when I’m officially past my 3 month mark. Until then, here are the aforementioned snaps. Hopefully they’re helpful for those considering the FT path.