Raven-Symoné had "painful" plastic surgeries as a teenage star after dad encouraged him

Disney Channel star said that she had two breast reductions and liposuction as a minor.


Corbeau symon has been in the entertainment industry since she was only four years old, making her debut as an olivia The Cosby Show In 1989. And although she was still an actor and host, the 37 -year -old woman was opened on how to be in the eyes of the public had an impact on his body image , starting when she was very young, including being shameful of the body and said not to eat certain foods planned for the actors. In a recent episode of her podcast, Raven-Symoné revealed that she had undergone three plastic surgeries when she was still a minor, in part because she was "strongly suggested" by her father that she did it. Read the rest to find out why the former star of the child and the adolescent had two breast reductions and a liposuction procedure before she was 18 years old and the frightening complication she lived when she recovered from one of them.

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Raven-Symoné worked regularly during his childhood and adolescence.

Raven-Symoné in 1992
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Raven-Symoné played on The Cosby Show From 1989 to 1992, when the show left the air. Her next major role in a television series was like Nicole in sitcom Hangin 'with Mr. Cooper from 1993 to 1997. She also took on the appearances and roles on television in films, in particular Little rascals and both of Dr Dolittle Films with Eddie Murphy . In 2003, the year she was 18 years old, the successful series Disney Channel of Raven-Symoné It's so raven Created. Also in 2003, the channel made its debut Guépard girls TV movie, in which she also played.

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She was shameful on the set.

Raven-Symoné in 1994
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Later in his career, Raven-Symoné joined the panel of the day talk show, View . During an episode of 2015, she remembered that she was told of people The Cosby Show Planned not to eat certain foods because it "fatten". AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

"It was really difficult," she said, As indicated by People . "I remember not having been able to have the bagel or anything at - we rarely called it, where it is just a food table, ready to eat what you want. And I remember that people would be like: "You can't eat that. You are fat! I say to myself: 'I am seven years old! I'm hungry!' ""

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His father encouraged him to undergo cosmetic surgery.

Raven-Symoné in 2023
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In the episode of his podcast, The best podcast of all time , released on August 7, Raven-Symoné revealed to the public for the first time that she had had two breast reductions and liposuction surgery before being 18 years old. She also said that her father, Christopher B. Pearman , had encouraged him to make a breast reduction.

"There were documents involved. My father strongly suggested that I had to reduce my breasts," she explained to her co-host and his wife Miranda Pearman-Maday . "He said to himself:" So don't you feel bad, is there something you want? "I said to myself:" What? Yeah, if I receive Lipo, will people stop calling me big? "And, therefore, I have a twofer."

"And it was like a mess, it was just a mess, just being so young, and the pain of all this, honey," said the actor about the process. She did not identify exactly the age she had when she suffered surgeries.

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She had a complication after one of the procedures.

Miranda Pearson-Maday and Raven-Symoné in 2023
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Pearman-Maday asked Raven-Symoné what her recovery process looked like, and she replied: "I dissociated, so recovery was, you know, a little painful. I have scars, I always have Hearty fabric to date. And I am in fact he has gained weight after and had to come back a little more little, because [my breasts] were still too big for the feelings of others. "

She continued explaining that she had a frightening experience that comes out of anesthesia.

"This first I had, I had a crisis when I woke up from surgery," she said. "And I remember having woken up and having seen everything, and I said to myself:" no "and I started to have this dry mouth and I could not breathe and then I returned to and they were like "Oh yeah, you had an epilepsy crisis. ' I said to myself: "Thank you for telling me." ""

Raven-Symoné said that she did not know exactly what had caused the crisis. But, she said that remembering the sensation "always freaks away [she]".


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