Anna Sale

But here I am probably three years prior and when I went to ask for the last surgery thinking this would be in the category of saving my marriage.

when it was doing the opposite, you know, because I did feel like he chose me because of the way I looked at 35.

He chose me because of the way others saw me, the way others complimented me.

I had that narrative going.

So this really shook all of that because it was the first time I knew that he liked my body, but I didn't realize

Yeah, I just thought it was all improvement, that there was no risk of, you know, like the scar from the tummy tuck.

It's like...

neither of us really understood how intense that would look.

You know, he described it as a C-section scar, which it's not far off.

And yeah, I was a little shocked too.

Like I was so tunnel vision that I thought, oh, oh wait, so it never really goes, wait, it never goes away?

Right?

Yeah.

Yeah.

And I remember my surgeon saying something like, well, even if... He said something like...

Because I said, I'm uncomfortable even with my partner with my shirt off and I definitely don't want to go to the pool and blah, blah, blah.

And he said, well, even if you're still uncomfortable, you know, with like the results of a tummy tuck, at least like your silhouette, you know, in clothing.

And I'm thinking like, well, yeah, but with my shirt off too.

And I now realize that what he meant was you might not like –

The scar, if your pants go below that, and you also might not like the fact that it's not the belly button you were born with.