Anna Faris Opens Up About 'Awesome' Plastic Surgery: 'I'm Still Floored That I Did It'
Elective plastic surgeries still have a pretty hefty stigma attached to them — they're often associated with wealth, privilege, and an alignment with (often problematic) societal standards of physical beauty. When Anna Faris got breast implants more than a decade ago at the age of 30, the first pre-op step was coming to terms with everything she thought she knew about plastic surgery. In her cover interview for the May 2018 issue of Women's Health, she opened up about her decision to go under the knife and how that decision completely reversed her prior opinion of plastic surgery as an anti-feminist practice.
"I was always a negative-A cup, so when I was 30, I was getting a divorce, I had just finished House Bunny, and I'd sold another movie. All of these new things were happening to me, so I got my breasts done," Faris, now 41, said, referring to the end of her four-year first marriage to actor Ben Indra. "It was fucking awesome." She continued, "I never, ever thought I'd do something like that. I always thought plastic surgery was caving in to 'the man,' you know? But it came down to a really simple thing: I wanted to fill out a bikini. What would that feel like?"
More than 11 years later, though, as happy as she is with her decision, Faris said that she's still surprised that she actually went through with it. "I'm still floored that I did it, because I am a staunch feminist. I kept thinking, Am I betraying my own gender by doing this?" The Overboard star knows now that she wasn't and she wants other women to know it, too. "I wish that we were more supportive of each other. I think that people should be able to do whatever they want, whether it's getting braces, bleaching their hair, getting extensions, getting a boob job, getting vaginal surgery, or getting a nose job," she said.
Faris went on to describe how this same attitude about fully accepting her body has only gotten stronger since she became a mother (to five-year-old son Jack, with ex Chris Pratt) and hit 40. "When I was pregnant, I gained 70 pounds! I wish it was all in my belly, but it was on my arms, my thighs, my ass. I remember at the time thinking, This is incredible. I'd never enjoyed food more and I didn't care," she said. "My vanity was completely tidal-waved by the need to just nourish this thing. Nothing was going to stop me! Finally, my doctor was like, 'Okay, you're, uh, gaining at a pretty rapid pace.' Well, yeah! For the first time in a long time, I had absolutely zero concern about my weight. It felt really good."
She went on, saying, "I've never had a completely normal cycle, so now that I've passed 40, I do wonder about being premenopausal — and sometimes I feel like my eyes can't focus quite as well. But the larger picture is that I feel happier as I get older. You know how in your 20s and 30s you think, '[Aging] must be so miserable?' But I don't have as many hang-ups now. There's a wonderful liberation."
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