Yolanda Foster‘s leaky breast implants may have been aggravating the symptoms of her Lyme disease.
Sources told TMZ the “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” star had both implants removed this week after doctors discovered one was leaking silicone, reportedly making the symptoms of her illness worse.
She shared a photo and powerful message on Instagram Friday about her decision, writing, “❤️Turn a mess into a message……. We might have hit the jackpot by finding all this silicone from a 20 year old implant rupture through ultrasound mapping as shown in this selfie.”
Though the removal isn’t a cure for her disease, her condition is expected to become much more manageable, according to the site. The 51-year-old reportedly is already feeling better.
The mother of models Gigi Hadid and Bella Hadid has been battling Lyme disease since 2012, and has been very open about her struggle. In January, she penned an essay saying she’d nearly lost the ability to read, write and watch television.
“Although writing is usually my favorite thing to do, I unfortunately have lost the ability to do so in an intelligent matter at this time,” she said, detailing her battle with the disease that’s left her feeling like someone “confiscated my brain and tied my hands behind my back.”
Other stars who have removed their breast implants:
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Adrienne Bailon admits to getting implants at 19, but later got them removed. “I went to a doctor in Miami and asked for a ‘B’ cup and ended up with double ‘Ds’," she lamented to Cosmo for Latinas. "Here I was with these porn star boobs,” she said. “I went from one insecurity to the next — feeling like I was too small to feeling like when I walked into the room everyone knew my boobs were fake.”Getty Images
"Glee" star Heather Morris told Fitness magazine (via The Daily Mail) in 2011, "Implants were something I thought I wanted when I was younger, and now I don't. It was hard being active with them, because my chest was always sore. It hurt a lot, and I didn't like being in pain — so they had to go!" Getty Images
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Courtney Love had her breast implants removed but kept them as a souvenir ... until her Pomeranian ate one of them and died in 2002.Getty Images
Jenna Jameson told Us Weekly that her implants actually made her feel shy prior to their removal in 2007. "When I had implants, I felt uncomfortable," she says. "I would be shy at the beach. I know it sounds funny, but I'd wear high-necked clothes—unless I was at an adult-film convention. So I thought, 'Why don't I be who I am and get my real ones back?'" Getty Images
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Kimberly Stewart told Contact Music about her infamous present for pal Jack Osbourne: her discarded implants. "I gave him my implants, I framed them and I signed them and I engraved them and he has them on his bathroom wall." The spawn of rock legend Rod and model Alana Stewart explains that her mother's own augmentation experience influenced her decision to remove her implants. "[My mom] actually had a friend that got really sick from the silicone implants and that's when [she] took them out."Getty Images
In 1999, Pamela Anderson removed her infamous 34DD breast implants, telling press, "It's something I've been wanting to do for a long time and I'm very happy with my decision."Rex Features / Getty Images
Sharon Osbourne confessed on "The Talk," "One morning I woke up and one of my boobies was kind of much longer than the other ... So I'm looking, thinking, this isn't right. I went to a fabulous surgeon ... and she said the implant was leaking … [So] I went and had them taken out." She adds, "I don't feel like I have a waterbed laying on my chest anymore!"Getty Images
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Stevie Nicks got breast implants in 1976, and waited almost 20 years to remove them. The Fleetwood Mac chanteuse told People, "Like cocaine, the whole world was getting them back then, and everyone was told they were safe. But I'm living proof that they aren't safe." Getty Images
Tara Reid had a series of botched boob jobs that she had to get undone in 2006. "I got my breasts done for the first time because my breasts were uneven," Reid told Us Weekly (via ABC News). "I was a 34B, but the right one was always bigger than the left." Her initial surgery went very wrong from the get-go. "First of all, I asked for big Bs and ... he gave me Cs, and I didn't want them ... Right after the surgery, I had some bumps along the edges of my nipples, but the doctor said, 'Don't worry. It's going to be better.' But after six months of 'it's going to get better,' it started to get worse and worse."Getty Images
After Victoria Beckham was noticeably less busty in February 2014, Allure magazine asked where her implants went. Posh kept coy, simply saying, "Gone! I don't have them anymore."Getty Images
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Heidi Montag removed her F-cup implants, seen at left, in November 2013, opting for smaller, C-cup breasts instead. She explained to Us Weekly, "I couldn't conceptualize the weight of them in my body. They felt like bowling balls on my chest."Getty Images
![Kimberly Stewart told Contact Music about her infamous present for pal Jack Osbourne: Her discarded implants. "I gave him my implants, I framed them and I signed them and I engraved them and he has them on his bathroom wall." The spawn of rock legend Rod and model Alana Stewart explains that her mother's own augmentation experience influenced her decision to remove her implants. "[Alana Stewart] actually had a friend that got really sick from the silicone implants and that's when [Alana] took them out."](/blog/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2015/07/kimberly-stewart-boob-job.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=646)
![Sharon Osbourne confessed on "The Talk," "One morning I woke up and one of my boobies was kind of much longer than the other... So I'm looking, thinking, this isn't right. I went to a fabulous surgeon... and she said the implant was leaking… [So] I went and had them taken out." She adds, "I don't feel like I have a waterbed laying on my chest anymore!"](/blog/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2015/07/sharon-obsourne-breast-implants.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&w=832)
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