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Mastectomy made me more beautiful

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Ann-Marie
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9 years ago
A great article from Women's Weekly Online titled - My mastectomy made me more beautiful Krystal Barter from our sister charity Pink Hope, Louise Turner (Reclaim your curves/ one of our facilitator...
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jaycia02
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9 years ago

I don't think anyone is trying to cause offence by calling them chicken fillets, it is just a case of marketing being too successful. The smaller breast enhancers are actually marketed as 'chicken fillets' so someone is just taking that reference to the full prosthesis as well. x

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