One of the most bizarre things, to me, is that Eva Amurri ended up moving away from an acting career to turn into a full-time influencer. She’s been an influencer and high-strung mommy blogger for a decade or longer. She must do well in the influencer business, because it’s really the only thing she does at this point. Anyway, I never really thought that Eva looked much like her mother (Susan Sarandon), but Eva did inherit two things from her mom: the incredible bust. Seriously, Eva had three kids and her girls were still large, round and perky. But they were also very big, and she decided to get a breast reduction. Now that I’m looking through her IG, I see that this whole process was extremely well-documented, but it was news to me and news to People Mag.
Eva Amurri has been documenting her recovery from breast reduction surgery, sharing that sleeping — and coming to terms with giving her body time to rest — has been the hardest part of recovery.
The actress 40, explained that she’d made the decision to have her 32F breasts reduced in a post on her lifestyle site, Happily Eva After, titled Bye, Bye, Boobies. As she wrote, larger breasts “can make you extremely self-conscious and insecure. They hurt your back, they’re hard to clothe, and most importantly: you can’t take them off and take a break. That’s been the hardest part.”
Amurri, the only child of Susan Sarandon and Franco Amurri, continued, “Having huge boobs has been a blast at times! When I want to feel extra sultry or sexy, they’ve been super fun! In the bedroom? FANTASTIC. When I want attention? Perfection. But what about those days that I didn’t? What about when I would have done anything to not have to carry 10 extra pounds on the front of my body or have breasts I couldn’t put away or ignore?”
Amurri, who shares daughter Marlowe, 10, son Major, 8, and son Mateo, 5, with her ex-husband, soccer player Kyle Martino, said that pregnancy and nursing caused her breasts to get bigger and smaller. “The yo-yo-ing size contributed to drooping and sagging.”
She finally explained that she was having the reduction — celebrating with a “Bye, Bye, Boobies” cake — and shared her reluctance was due to her fears around anesthesia. She shared a loopy post-surgery video, filmed while her husband, chef Ian Hock was driving her home, where she said she was “obsessed with everyone,” admitted that she had a “mental breakdown” before the procedure — and then broke into tears when she realized her surgeon, Dr. Umbareen Mahmood, gave her chocolate.
Recovery has been tough, Amurri revealed, explaining she’s “so uncomfortable” and can’t sleep. “The truth is that until I can sleep on my side … I just feel like I’m in the newborn phase of motherhood where I’m up pretty much constantly,”
As a fellow big-rig hauler, I have to admit, I’ve fantasized about getting the reduction surgery too. Like, I genuinely think my life (and my back/shoulders) would be much better with perky C-cups. Alas, I’m also scared of the anesthesia, plus I just don’t want anyone cutting into me for any reason, you know? I’ve heard horror stories of how long it takes to recover from the reduction surgery too. Eva’s been documenting that on her social media too, that she can’t sleep properly and she’s in too much pain to lift her arms. Hm.
Photos courtesy of Eva’s social media.
