Steph De Lander has already been through multiple neck surgeries, but somehow none of them produced the worst recovery of her life. That distinction belongs to the breast reduction and lift she decided to get while she was already sidelined from wrestling.
While speaking on the Steph Infection podcast, De Lander revealed that she underwent the procedure after her first neck surgery. Since she couldn’t wrestle anyway, she figured it was the perfect time to get something else done that she had wanted for herself.
“I got a reduction. Did I—in between? Yeah. After my first surgery, my neck surgery, when I was out with my neck, I got my tits reduced. I got a lift and a reduction. Yeah. And they’re like almost the same. They’re not—they’re actually a lot smaller, but I feel like they’re the same size. Yeah, but they’re a lot perkier now.”
De Lander originally wanted breast implants, but she already had naturally large breasts and wasn’t happy with how they sat. That ultimately led her in a different direction.
“I wanted fake boobs. I had—no, I had big naturals. That I didn’t like the way they sat. So, I got them—I got a reduction and then I got a lift after my first neck surgery while I was out. Yeah, that’s why I did it.”
Then came the part she absolutely wasn’t prepared for. Despite everything De Lander had already experienced with her neck, she called the recovery from her breast surgery the worst thing she has ever gone through.
“Let me say this. The recovery from that was the worst thing I’ve ever done in my life. It was horrific.”
De Lander said the procedure left her entire chest area in excruciating pain. Things apparently got even worse when she was offered additional pain medication for another $2,000. She wasn’t paying it. Instead, De Lander decided she would “raw dog” the recovery without it—a decision that quickly turned into an absolutely miserable trip back to her hotel.
“But that was fine. It was just the—like, ’cause they f****** up your whole chest muscles and everything. So, like, I was in the worst pain I have ever felt. It was so bad.
Like, I woke up and they send you home that day, like an hour later, and I’m—we had to—I had to stay in Miami for a week. So I was in Miami. My husband comes to pick me up. They tried to charge you an extra $2,000 for the pain meds.
So I was like, ‘I’m not paying for this. I’ll just raw dog it.’ So I literally wake up and I’m like, ‘What’s happening to me? What’s happening?’ And the nurses are like, ‘Calm down. Like, you can’t be like—like, your husband’s going to freak out if he sees you like this.’ ’Cause I was—I was scream-crying of how much pain I was in.”
The nurses weren’t wrong about her husband’s reaction as he was absolutely shocked.
“And my husband picked me up, was like, ‘What the f***?’ And then, like, took me back to the hotel. I was just projectile vomiting. Like, I was—dude, it was so bad.”
Getting back to the hotel didn’t provide much relief either. For roughly the first week, De Lander said she couldn’t even sit herself up without her husband physically pulling her body upright because of how badly the procedure had affected her muscles.
“And then for, like, the first week, like, I couldn’t even sit up. Like, he had to pull my body up ’cause, like, all my muscles—dude, it was the worst pain.”
De Lander has been through enough physically to know what serious pain feels like. Even by that standard, this was apparently enough to convince her that she never wants to experience anything similar again.
“When people say, like, tit surgeries or, like, that kind of thing are, like, bad—getting fakeies apparently is not as bad—but, like, the full lift and reduction, it was, like, a really brutal recovery. And I’m not a b**** at all. Like, I can usually take it, but, like, I will never do that again.”
De Lander went into the procedure thinking her existing wrestling hiatus gave her a convenient recovery window. What she got instead was an entirely different physical battle—one brutal enough that even after everything her neck has put her through, she has zero interest in ever signing up for round two.
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