An Instagram model, 35, has announced she has deep regret and “trauma” about the seven breast augmentations she had.
But doctors have told her that removing the implants – which she eventually plans to do – would leave her with ‘Freddy Krueger’-like scars on her chest.
“If I could go back in time, I definitely wouldn’t have had a single surgery,” said Neyleen Ashley, an Instagram influencer with 2.5 million followers.
She explained that her “gateway” to plastic surgery was being bullied for being flat-chested in her youth and dating men who preferred larger breasts.
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Neyleen Ashley talks about plastic surgery ‘trauma’. (Neyleen Ashley | Instagram @neyleenashley)
“I’m connected to my doctors, I guess,” she said in an interview with Fox News Digital.
“I didn’t just get my boobs done – I got my whole body done,” she continued. “It never made me feel better.”
In addition to breast augmentations, Ashley said she had liposuction, a Brazilian butt lift and a nose job. The nine plastic surgery procedures made Ashley uncomfortable leaving her home.
“At one point I looked like the ant emoji, just like two balls and then skinny legs. That’s how I felt and that’s how I was,” she said of her Brazilian butt lift.
“It got to the point where I was so uncomfortable leaving my house … without wearing an oversized hoodie, big pants and a sweater around my waist in Miami, Florida, in 90-degree weather,” she said. “At what cost did I have to do all of this? So that I could stick to social media?”
Now, she wants to warn girls to avoid plastic surgery and undo the work as much as possible.
“I want to be a link for young girls who think they need plastic surgery because I’m a testament that it never makes you feel better, like you have to actually do the inside work,” she said. “I wish these young girls would stop following trends.”
Ashley said that people who have plastic surgery, in many cases, have complaints about the procedures they have. “You still won’t love it. You’ll find yourself like me, seven plastic surgeries deep without even realizing it, trying to fix a wound that honestly exists in yourself.”
Ashley has had so many breast surgeries that she said: “It’s gotten to the point where I’ve had so many I can’t even count.”
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“These doctors are almost like predators when it comes to women because they know what we’re going through. They know we see perfection every day on social media,” Neyleen Ashley said of her experience with plastic surgeons. (Neyleen Ashley | Instagram @neyleenashley)
The longer the surgery, the bigger the problems, she explained, “I’ve never had a successful, wonderful breast augmentation. Every time I’ve had my breasts done, there’s always something that needs to be fixed or revised.”
Frustrated by the results of her multiple breast surgeries, Ashley decided to “go big or go home.”
So she went to a “plastic surgery place” in Miami and ordered the biggest implants they had, which were then overfilled with saline.
Previously, the FDA only allowed implants up to 800cc in size. But in 2022, new guidelines came out allowing implants up to 1,500cc. Every 200cc measurement increases a person’s cup size.
In Ashley’s case, going up to 1,250cc would have increased her cup size by six sizes.
Her breasts were so big that at one point she wanted them out, so she had a plastic surgeon drain the saline. She now wishes she could remove the implants entirely, but said the scarring a removal procedure would leave after so many previous procedures would be devastating.
It would cause her skin to sag and essentially “have tissue falling down” from her breasts.
Not only that, but her doctor told her that the incisions that would have to be made for her eighth augmentation would leave Ashley with scars that look like “Freddy Krueger.”
According to Ashley, the doctors told her, “You still have your career, you still have all these things to do,” referring to her modeling on Instagram.
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“We don’t want to do this to you,” she said the doctors told her. “Well, the truth is, you’re going to look like Freddy Krueger. You’re going to have incisions like this, another incision that’s going to be like this.”
After hearing these warnings, Ashley decided it was best not to have these marks and scars on her body.
But ultimately, he said he’ll bite the bullet and have the implants removed.
“I will be 100% fine with not having implants again. This is like a never-ending trauma,” she said.
Neyleen Ashley talks to Fox News Digital about wishing she could undo seven breast augmentations. (Fox News Digital)
Ashley also criticized the plastic surgeons who operated on her, some – she said – encouraged her to have more operations and told her it was something she “needed”.
“Especially here in Miami, it’s like a factory. They couldn’t care less about how you feel… All they see is a dollar sign,” he said of plastic surgery offices. “These doctors are almost like predators when it comes to women because they know what we’re going through. They know we see perfection every day on social media.”
Ashley said doctors should have more honest conversations with patients about risks and ask more holistic questions.
For example, Ashley wished the doctor had asked her if she planned to have children right after her first increase—because she did. Many patients who have had implants, she explained, want to go back under the knife after having a child because it doesn’t look the same as before.
“The most important thing is, you know, you have to be your own best friend. If you don’t like what you see looking back in the mirror … plastic surgery is never going to help you,” she said.
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As for moving forward, Ashley said she will focus on growing as a person on the inside, rather than trying to be perfect on the outside.
“At the end of the day, people will remember how you made them feel. But they might not remember what you said. So I think that’s the most important thing. We’re just working to be decent people,” he said.
