Nicole Eggert opens up about her regrets about getting breast implants when she was just 18 during the first season of Baywatch.
The 52-year-old actress has been acting since she was 8, starring as Jamie Powell in Charles in Charge and Who’s the Boss before playing Summer Quinn in Baywatch.
When she realized she had to be in a one-piece swimsuit all day, which she said, “wasn’t flattering,” she decided to get breast implants during a break from filming.
She realized on the first day of filming in 1992, “Oh my God, are we going to be in bathing suits all day every day?”
The actress – who was recently diagnosed with breast cancer – admitted she thought she auditioned for a spin-off children’s TV series at a Malibu high school.
Nicole Eggert opens up about her regrets about getting breast implants when she was just 18 during the first season of Baywatch.
The 52-year-old actress has been acting since she was 8, starring as Jamie Powell in Charles in Charge and Who’s the Boss before playing Summer Quinn in Baywatch.
“All the girls were working out and they were super tiny and fit and I was like, ‘Oops.’ And the one-piece swimsuits were not flattering. I didn’t want to wear it at all,” she said.
“It just wasn’t what I wrote about. It was a whole different show and ball game and not where I wanted to be,” she said, eventually leaving Baywatch after two seasons.
While she grew up swimming at the Southern California beaches they filmed on, and was one of the cast’s strongest swimmers, she still felt insecure about her body, adding that it led her to get breast implants.
“Now I regret it, of course. I look at all these smaller girls doing it and I think, “God, leave your bodies alone!” Eggert said.
Although she admitted, “But when you have to wear this bodysuit and it’s like you’re so flat it’s like pleats — you’ve got pleats in the front… you’re like, ‘What’s that?’ You can’t do anything. You can’t fill it with anything. You can not do anything “.
“It was a stupid 18-year-old decision,” Eggert added, and while she would go on to have multiple breast augmentations after that, she appeared on E!’s Botched in 2015 to have her breasts reduced.
Back in 2016, original Baywatch producers Michael Berk and Douglas Schwartz claimed that Eggert felt “competitive” with star Pamela Anderson.
They also claimed she “called in sick” for a few days after a holiday weekend and came back with a breast job, but Eggert disputes that.
“All the girls were working out and they were super tiny and fit and I was like, ‘Oops.’ And the one-piece swimsuits were not flattering. I didn’t want to wear it at all,” she said
“It just wasn’t what I wrote about. It was a whole different show and ball game and not where I wanted to be,” she said, eventually leaving Baywatch after two seasons.
“Now I regret it, of course. I look at all these smaller girls doing it and I think, “God, leave your bodies alone!” Eggert said
When asked about Pamela, Eggert said, “I always knew Pamela was prettier and more natural. I kind of wondered why she always wore so much makeup. But it was her issue and the look she wanted”
Eggert is producing and starring in the new documentary Baywatch: The American Dream, which will feature interviews with the top stars of the long-running series
“These guys — they really like to make things. They were in the show’s downtime and they knew (about the surgery),” Eggert said.
When asked about Pamela, Eggert said, “I always knew Pamela was prettier and more natural. I kind of wondered why she always wore so much makeup. But it was her own thing and the look she wanted.’
“It was the image she wanted to portray, so it worked for her. And I always feel that however you feel comfortable, whatever makes you feel good, do it. And for her, she wore a lot of makeup. To me, it was like, beach makeup? “Oh, that’s disgusting,” You know what I mean? Eggert said.
Eggert is producing and starring in the new documentary Baywatch: The American Dream, which will feature interviews with the top stars of the long-running series.
