Lily Allen has revealed she found lump in her chest following her augmentation surgery earlier this year, but assured fans it’s not dangerous.
In March the Smile hitmaker, 40, revealed she got an ‘incredible’ boob job the month before, and had been having fun buying new ‘fancy lingerie’ to show them off.
The Pillowman stage star explained at the time she was still waiting for them to ‘drop’, which happens a few months after the surgery, leaving them feeling ‘like normal boobs’.
In a new interview with The Perfect Magazine, when asked about how she’s feeling after her boob job months on, Lily said: ‘Good, although I have got f***ing massive lump in my right boob.
‘I think it must be a cyst, yeah. It’s not dangerous. I went to have a mammogram and an ultrasound in New York last week and it came back OK.’
Explaining her decision to go under the knife, the Not Fair hitmaker, who recently stepped back from her Miss Me? podcast with best pal Miquita Oliver, said she made the move after weight loss.
‘I felt like it. No, actually, you know what it was? It was that I got really, really thin when I was feeling at my lowest, in the past year or so,’ she said.
‘Or longer, actually. And I knew that I had to gain weight. And I’ve always been bottom-heavy and so I had a fear that if I was to gain weight, my body would feel out of proportion. And so I felt like, why not gift myself a get-out clause? Make it feel more enticing,’ she explained.
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- Look at your boobs, pecs or chest.
- Look at the area from your armpit, across and beneath your boobs, pecs or chest, and up to your collarbone.
Be aware of any changes in size, outline or shape and changes in skin such as puckering or dimpling.
Feel
- Feel each of your boobs, pecs or chest.
- Feel the area from your armpit, across and beneath your boobs, pecs or chest, and up to your collarbone.
Be aware of any changes in skin such as puckering or dimpling, or any lumps, bumps or skin thickening which are different from the opposite side.
Notice your nipples
- Look at each of your nipples.
Be aware of any nipple discharge that’s not milky, any bleeding from the nipple, any rash or crusting on or around your nipple area that doesn’t heal easily and any change in the position of your nipple
Elsewhere in the interview, Lily opened up about the inspiration behind her new album, West End Girl, which is her first album in seven years, dropping on Friday October 24.
Lily agreed with the interviewer that West End Girl – which is a mix of fiction and autobiography – is a record about ‘broken marriage and a series of betrayals that caused the singer to feel really devastated’.
This comes after Lily’s split from Stranger Things star David Harbour, 50, after four years of marriage. She is also mum to Marnie, 12, and Ethel, 13, with her first husband Sam Cooper.
Talking about the dating scene now, Lily confessed: ‘It’s bitterly disappointing. There’s an element of humiliation and shame around it.
‘The world doesn’t portray women of my age as being desirable. And it just feels like climbing up a mountain.’
The singer confessed that having a partner won’t be ‘the answer to all of my problems’, but it feels like an ‘easier’ route than doing all the emotional work herself.
This comes after Lily told British Vogue about her ‘feelings of despair’ in the aftermath of the split.
‘The last time that I felt anything like that, drugs and alcohol were my way out, so it was excruciating to sit with those [feelings] and not to use them,’ Lily, who has been sober since 2019, reflected.
In January, Allen checked herself into a trauma treatment facility, where she spent several weeks addressing what she called her ‘emotional turmoil’ through therapy.
Explaining her decision to seek help, she said: ‘I wanted to die. I’ve been into those places before against my will and I feel like that’s progress in itself. That’s strength. I knew that the things I was feeling were too extreme to be able to manage, and I was like, “I need some time away.”’
Allen also revealed she has faced ongoing issues with food, admitting they ‘got really, really, really bad’ amid the breakdown of her marriage.
Despite the pain of the split, the singer and podcast host reflected compassionately on her time with Harbour.
‘There were lots of good things about it,’ she said. ‘My kids had an amazing experience living in America for five years, and I have a lot of compassion for my ex-husband. I think we all suffer.’
Now, Allen says she’s in a much better place. ‘Really not in the same space that I was when I wrote [these] songs,’ she said. ‘I have come a long way. I feel OK, actually.’
Talking of the contents of her album, Lily warned that the contents was ‘not gospel’ to what happened between her and David, but does explore some of her experiences in the marriage.
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