Beauty and the Breast
May 23, 2008
Greetings!
Mary and I started Beauty and the Breast for many reasons: to share information, to relate our experiences, to create a conversation that tries to make sense of a social environment that drives women - sometimes despite reason or judgment, more often in ignorance - to go under the knife to receive breast implants into their bodies.
Most of all, we started this blog to be the voice of the breast implant community: the women's health advocates, the doctors and other health professionals, and the tens of thousands of implant victims. Frustrated by the failure of news media to educate the public about the dark side of breast implants, a story littered with broken bodies and broken lives, we started this blog to enable the breast implant community to speak out and tell that story ourselves.
And we are. Since we launched the blog in July 2007, blog traffic has grown by leaps and bounds, our community closer and more united with a sense of purpose, and our collective voice louder and more vibrant. We are reaching people in other communities who are hearing us and helping us evaluate the issues of and insure truthful reporting about body image, feminism, parenting and most of all breast implants.
Alas, with the foundations laid, it's time for Mary and me to turn our energies to other fronts in the fight against unsafe and inadequately studied breast implants and for women's health. Though Mary and I will continue to post on occasion, we are stepping back and handing Beauty and the Breast over to Kacey, Krista and Gretchen. These three young women are wise beyond their years and passionately committed to the breast implant issue. We are confident that their stewardship will help the blog's voice continue to grow and reach new generations of breast implant recipients. We hope you will continue to visit, participate and support them.
We will no longer be sending out Beauty and the Breast e-mail newsletters, as we have added Feedburner to the blog. To recieve our updates via email or through a feed, please go to Beauty and the Breast and look in the top right corner.
Until we meet again, be happy and healthy!
Sybil and Mary
I am a woman who became very ill from "safe" implants when I was 26. I wish someone had warned me about the real risks of breast implants, and I hope this helps other sick women find some answers.
