ictoria Beckham is getting candid about her breast implant removal.
The 51-year-old Spice Girls member-turned fashion designer recently joked to U.K. tabloid The Sun that the implants she used to have are “bobbing around in the Mediterranean Sea.”
“I don’t know where those boobs went, but they went,” she said in an interview published Oct. 10. “It was definitely working with (fashion designer) Roland (Mouret) that did it.”
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She continued, “It came from a need to be taken more seriously and me not knowing who I was. And so I think it was Roland that encouraged me to just be me — not feel I had to be that person. To just tone it down.”
Beckham has previously kept details of the cosmetic procedure close to the chest, even denying speculation that she’d gone under the knife. In a letter to her 18-year-old self published in British Vogue in 2017, Beckham wrote: “I should probably say, don’t mess with your boobs. All those years I denied it – stupid. A sign of insecurity. Just celebrate what you’ve got.”
In 2014, she told Allure magazine after looking at an older, bustier photo of herself that “I don’t have them anymore. I think I may have purchased them.” When pressed, “Did your breasts just leave?” she replied, “Or they got removed, one or the other.”
She then clarified that she did remove the implants, but denied that the decision was due to painful symptoms.
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Speaking with The Sun, Beckham reflected on her fashion choices since the Spice Girls first went their separate ways in 2001.
“I think that I’ve spent such a long time after the Spice Girls searching for my purpose and I didn’t know what it was, so I suppose that’s why I dressed in that way. There were a lot of hair extensions, tight tops and fake tan, although I still do fake tan,” she said.
“I’m not going to lie, it was probably to get attention, because I was searching for my identity.”
Beckham’s comments on being conscious of her image mirror what she said in her new Netflix docuseries about being “very critical of myself” and exerting control through clothing choices and eating disorders.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has, in recent years, warned patients about the potential risks of inserting breast implants, which include capsular contracture – scar tissue that squeezes an implant – potential rupture of the implant, cancer of the immune system, and Breast Implant Illness.
Though celebrities such as Kylie Jenner and Meghan Trainor have promoted implants, with the latter emphasizing how the procedure improved her body image, others have been open about undergoing removal due to various mental and physical impacts.
This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Victoria Beckham reflects on breast implant removal, being free to ‘just be me’