Heidi Montag Learning Martial Arts For Protection

Heidi Montag’s life may have seemed charmed during her days on The Hills, but the reality TV star revealed a darker side of fame in a recent exclusive interview with Radar Online. Montag says that the attention can often be more overwhelming than flattering and she recently schooled herself in martial arts to learn ways to protect herself.

“I can’t afford security, so I practice self defense and chain punching,” Heidi explained to Radar Online.

Though she used to have a posse of bodyguards on hand, she and husband Spencer Pratt have fallen on learner times. “I have spent millions in security in the last 4 years because I had to take care of the cost all on my own. It’s crazy and it’s hard, but life is not always fair.

“I have had to change my life. I can’t afford to go out to the clubs anymore because the sort of protection I need can cost anywhere from 5 to 10 thousand dollars a night...when you travel it’s even worst, because you need to cover the guards travel, food lodging, etc., and pay them. That is actually where all my money went because safety is number one.”

Besides cutting costs, Heidi has enjoyed the burst of independence from her practice.

“It gives me a confidence I didn’t have before,” she added. “I am doing this self defense because it gives me inner strength, and I feel safe in my home. It’s a deterrent, but I know I can’t do what the body guards do.”

Heidi has been training to become a black belt in Wing Tsun with her trainer (SIFU) Michael Casey who explained that “the system is geared straight towards self defense, so there are no rules. Punches, kicks, knees, elbows, ground fighting, strikes to vital areas. Anything goes as the goal of the system is to stop an opponent.”

“It is scary to be out there without protection, people do follow me and you can never be to careful,” Heidi added.

“It’s overwhelming, and it’s most difficult when I’m in large groups of people.”

The beautiful reality star said that while it takes years to perfect the ancient Chinese martial arts form, she has been practicing for about 6 months and realizes she has a long way to go.

“I’m not ready to go out alone yet...I’m only 5ft 2inches tall and have a small frame so I understand I can’t completely do it alone. Which is why I don’t go out as much anymore.

“Half the reason I am laying low and staying to myself is because I don’t have that security like I used too, and you never can predict what will happen.”

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Heidi Montag: I Am A Plastic Surgery Addict

Heidi Montag told ABC News she was addicted to plastic surgery after undergoing ten surgeries in a day this past January, and places the blame for the physical and emotional pain she suffered as result on the surgeon who performed the operations, the late Dr. Frank Ryan.

Montag, 24, told the network she did "not feel like I was prepared enough for" the surgeries, which she said left her feeling like she'd been "hit by a truck.

"Maybe I should have known," The Hills star said. "But how can you know when your doctor's saying, 'It's just a little of this, it's just a little of that'?"

Ryan tragically died at 50 this past August 16 when his Jeep tipped over the side of Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu. At the time, Montag grieved her doctor saying, "He was an angel and changed my life and the lives of everyone he met," she Tweeted of Ryan August 17. "He was the most brilliant talented surgeon who will ever exist. Dr. Frank Ryan changed the world."

In the new ABC interview, however, Montag is singing a different tune, claiming the doctor misled her en route to the operating table.

"I definitely should have been way more informed," Montag said. "I think that doctors should really walk you through all aspects of it, not just the glamorous side of it. Doctors, it's like they're selling you cookies."

"I don't want the biggest boobs in the world and, to be honest, I would take them out and downsize them but I don't want to go under the knife again," she told the network. "I feel like I'm stuck with them now... sometimes I wish I could go back to the original Heidi."

The interview with Montag airs in a special titled Primetime: Celebrity Plastic Surgery Gone Too Far? airing at 10/9c Wednesday on ABC.

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Heidi Montag Trashing Surgeon For Publicity

Heidi Montag is a publicity seeking opportunist who used the death of her plastic surgeon to try to stay famous, a close friend of Dr. Frank Ryan told Radar Online in a hard-hitting interview.

Responding to Montag’s recent comments on TV that Dr. Ryan misled her about her 10 plastic surgery procedures in one day, Dawn DaLuise told Radar Online: “She is desecrating his memory.” Dawn also told Radar Online that Heidi was “obsessed” with Dr. Ryan and he was forced to spurn her advances!

After his tragic death this summer Dr. Ryan has been fondly remembered by people close to him, but his most infamous patient had only bad things to say about him and his friends are furious about it.

Heidi trashed the dead surgeon in a recent interview with Entertainment Tonight saying “It was a lot harder than I was led on by my doctor…I didn’t know how excessive it really was…and to the extent a lot of stuff.”

“Heidi Montag is taking advantage of Dr. Ryan’s death,” DaLuise, Ryan’s friend of 15 years, exclusively told Radar Online.

Dawn organized the packed memorial for the doctor on November 15, and she slammed Heidi’s motives for speaking ill of Dr. Ryan and not attending the memorial celebration his friends and family held.

“Her PR people and agents were weighing the options of her either attending the memorial service for him on Monday or going on TV and talking about him and I guess she decided to trash him instead of remember him,” Dawn told Radar Online.

“Heidi is just trying to stay famous,” she said of the reality star who recently admitted she and her husband Spencer Pratt, are broke.

Dawn said that Dr. Ryan told friends Heidi was obsessed with him after her surgeries.

“Heidi was fixated with Dr. Ryan. He told friends that she used to show up and try to talk to him all the time. She was obsessed with him and he spurned her advances,” Dawn said.

Dawn defended Dr. Ryan’s operations on Heidi, and said her claims of regret are now only for show. “She wanted bigger breasts right after the surgery and she kept going back to him to ask him for more. He did not instigate her surgeries, she insisted on everything.

Irate over the statements Heidi made, Dawn slammed the reality star’s tactics.

“Now that he isn’t here to defend himself she is vilifying him.”

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Heidi Blames Dead Doc For Surgery Nightmare

Heidi Montag is speaking out about her plastic surgery nightmare - expressing her regret for undergoing ten proceedures in just one day and saying her doctor, the late Frank Ryan, misled her.

Montag- speaking to E.T. - said of the surgeries: "It's not who I am. It's something I did. It was a choice that I made, and I wanted other women and people to know, 'yeah, I have insecurities and so does everyone, and this is what I did, and I don't want to lie about it, and I don't want to cover it up. I don't like lying. It's just not who I am. In retrospect, I do wish I never would have said anything..."

When she was asked if she was happy with the after-result of her surgeries, Heidi said: "I wouldn't do it again... If I could go back, I'd wouldn't have had them..."

"It was a lot harder than I was led on by my doctor... I didn't know how excessive it really was.. and to the extent a lot of stuff."

"It was a lot .. it was a lot.. and I'm very thankful for how it turned out... It could have been disastrous." Could have been? Does Heidi not have a mirror?

Montag underwent ten surgeries in a single day last November. She had her breast implants increased to DDDs, a brow lift, a nose job revision, lipo on her stomach and thighs and a butt augmentation, among other things.

Montag has said she regrets one of the surgeries in particular - getting extreme breast implants. This past August, she said, in the wake of Ryan's death in a tragic car accident, she was looking for a new doctor to perform the procedure to reduce her breast size to a D or double D.

Montag has said the procedures have caused her excessive pain - both mentally and physically.

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Lauren Tried To Stop Heidi From Getting Married

Heidi Montag revealed that Lauren Conrad tried everything in her power to get Heidi to leave Spencer Pratt at the alter back when they got married on April 25th, 2009.

Heidi spoke of this as Heidi and Spencer renewed their vows over the weekend without The Hills doing everything to get ratings with dramatic situations and crazy revelations.

Heidi and Spencer renewed their vows without everybody else and all the cameras who were covering their every move as they were getting married.

Heidi and Spencer are also said to be broke, having spent all their money on getting famous and too owing $2 Million in back taxes, plus living on a $400/wk allowance from Spencer's dad.

Speidi are unpredictable, but Heidi's rivalry and silence by Lauren Conrad has not changed in the very least, but Lauren stopping Heidi from taking the plunge tells us their might've been some BFF left in LC to Heidi.

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Heidi Montag & Spencer Pratt Say "I Do" Again

There may have been a Mexican elopement and a lavish Hollywood ceremony in front of "The Hills" cameras, but Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt have finally said "I do" for their first "real" wedding and ETonline Senior Editor Nicole Dabeau was exclusively there for their romantic nuptials!

Reality TV's most polarizing couple renewed their vows just before sunset late Sunday afternoon at a beachfront house in Southern, CA.

"[This time] it's just me and my bride on a little secret beach with nobody else and it's just about her," Spencer says. "Versus last time it was about everything else, it was about drama, it was about ratings."

Heidi adds, "It was about everyone but us, so this is really our first wedding about Spencer and I and our love. Now I feel like I can finally just be Heidi and just be in a marriage and just be a person. I’m just really enjoying every day."

The couple, who has gone public about being broke, had their dream wedding donated to them. Everything from Heidi's Jenny Yoo gown, which she picked out with the help of wedding stylist Anya Sarre, to Spencer's Rik Ducar tuxedo, to their four-tier, multi-flavored cake decorated with white chocolate seashells from Hansen's Cakes, and rings from Alan Friedman. They received a 50% discount on their flowers from Sky Flowers.

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Speidi: What I Really Wanna Do Is Direct ... Porn

Since the Heidi Montag/Spencer Pratt sex tape is never going to see the light of day, a leading porn company is going after the next best thing ... a porn directed by Speidi themselves.

TMZ has obtained a letter sent by Vivid honcho Steven Hirsch, offering the couple the chance to get behind the lens. The idea, it appears, is to have the gruesome twosome helm skin flicks that will draw directly from the couple's own fantasies.

We're told both sides will get together in the near future and discuss the deal, and Spencer is definitely interested ... if the numbers are right.

That's a phrase that applies to almost anything Spencer is offered.

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Heidi Montag's Mom Mocks Daugter's Lifestyle

Heidi Montag’s mom, Darlene Egelhoff, has scoffed at her famous daughter’s love of five star hotels and spas on her website.

Egelhoff – who is currently working as a maid to help make ends meet after being forced to close her family run restaurant– made the observation on the latest entry on her blog.

The mother and daughter have had a strained relationship in recent years but that hasn’t stopped Egelhoff from posting childhood photographs of her family and talking about them openly.

The 47-year-old mother-of-three writes honestly in her “Metamorphosis of a Mother” blog about her life and struggles while residing in Colorado.

In the latest entry entitled “Time Stands Still,” Egelhoff writes of a dream she has of taking a remote outdoor trip with her three children Sky, Heidi and Holly.

She writes: “I allow my memories to come alive; I imagine Sky is wound up, lit, doing anything possible for Holly’s attention.

“Holly is laughing hysterically at everything he does, not wanting to get caught enjoying herself as she professes to hate these trips.

“Eventually she will be able to convince Heidi to do the same, preferring to sleep in five star Hotels with all inclusive spas as opposed to the dirt, I still don’t get it, I prefer the experience and solitude that comes with the dirt.”

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Heidi & Spencer Pratt Plan To Renew Their Vows

Happily back together, Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt feel that their rekindled marriage needs to set off on the right foot.

Trying to put their fake precious moments in the past, the former "Hills" stars have announced plans to renew their wedding vows.

Talking about the decision, Spencer told ET of he and Heidi's previous televised nuptials: "It was a movie, it was a script and it didn't feel right. No one in that building wanted us to get married. It was a nightmare."

Agreeing and expanding on her man's comments, Miss Montag chimed in to say: "We had just gone through so much crazy stuff personally and through our jobs and everything, so for me this feels like our first real marriage. Like our first restart. We deserve a second chance at our marriage and really having this moment and not being robbed of this."

Details regarding the vow renewals will be revealed on Entertainment Tonight this coming Monday, November 25th.

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Spencer Pratt: I Wanted Heidi To Divorce Me

Spencer Pratt opens up in a surprisingly candid interview about how he and Heidi are broke and practically homeless after they spent hundreds of thousands of dollars trying to "buy fame", how he sees no future for himself, and how he urged Heidi to divorce him to save his career.

Spencer tells ET:

"We felt the fleetingness of 15 minutes of fame so we were trying to buy, like, … Let's buy fame. Like if we could eat at this restaurant all the time, maybe we'll get seen with Mel Gibson or these bigger stars. So you know, we knew our positions, so we were having basically to buy into a tax bracket we didn't belong into."

"I know it's the dumbest thing ever spending money on things. But it's like, if we didn't, we wouldn't have got this post, or we wouldn't have got this picture in the magazine, and then we wouldn't be famous at all, and that's the only thing we had going for us at the time."

"I would say we were spending more than $100,000 [each month] on clothes for sure. And we would only wear them once."

"For me to think I was going to be famous and continue at that level of income on a steady basis, was … naive, egotistical, and just foolish. I can't have a long-range plan because I'm so hated I don't see anywhere I could go."

"I'm not afraid, I know it's a reality if we didn't have my dad letting us live in his guesthouse, Heidi and I would have no place to live so we would be homeless and we couldn't afford [to live] anywhere."

"As much as I love her, I was like, 'You need to divorce me to save any chance of a career, a business for yourself.' It's not fair for this sweet, innocent Heidi Montag to be part of Speidi. So really I was trying to divorce Speidi … ’cause you know I know I have no future career on camera, on TV, but Heidi, still to this day, I think could be the biggest actress, TV star, movie star, singer — she was born for it."

"I became this hated to buy things that I don't even have anymore. So I have nothing to show for it. Thank everything that Heidi has stayed with me through all of this because I wake up and say, 'At least I have Heidi. [That's] the greatest thing out of all of this.'"

Wow, he said a mouthful. Do you think this is the "real" Spencer or has he just decided to work this new more sympathetic angle to get some of his fame back?

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Heidi Montag's Mom: I Can't Pay My Bills

It's been a year of challenges for Heidi Montag's mom Darlene Egelhoff.

Aside from her estranged relationship with Montag since February, the mother of three and her husband, Tim, also now face an immense financial hurdle.

Timberlines, a popular restaurant featured on The Hills and owned by Egelhoff and her husband in Montag's hometown of Crested Butte, Colo., recently went out of business after a 21-year run.

"We're a tourist town, so our business department was dependent on the economy," Egelhoff tells PEOPLE. "Business started declining. We tried to make the necessary adjustments, but we were just not quite in time. We were forced to close because of the economy."

Egelhoff admits her family hit such a financial low that, at the end of last year, she even borrowed money from Montag.

"The restaurant was struggling, and I was crying on the phone," Egelhoff recounts. "I fought it for so long, but finally, I said, 'Tax guys are on the way. It's $8,000.' Heidi very generously wired me a check that day. That kept the restaurant afloat for at least six months. It was so generous and helpful."

Egelhoff has now gone from owning a restaurant and making appearances on The Hills to cleaning houses for a living.

"The work is sporadic and competitive," Egelhoff says. "My work is not enough to pay the bills. We need other work immediately. [My son] Sky is eligible for free lunch at school and is proud to take advantage of it."

But despite the hardships she and her family have recently faced, Egelhoff maintains a positive outlook on life and on the possibility of rekindling the close bond she once shared with her youngest daughter.

"I have no regrets in life," she says. "I feel like God makes all things for good, and the most difficult situations we go through in life are opportunities. That's when we build character and strength – during difficult times."

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Heidi & Spencer: $100,000 To Leave The US

Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt are considering taking a high-paying gig that could save their disastrous finances -- but there's a catch ... they would have to leave the country for a while.

With Speidi recently admitting that they're practically dead broke -- a betting website called YouWager.com has offered the couple real life jobs -- with a real big salary -- if they would relocate to Costa Rica.

Here's the deal -- Heidi and Spencer would get a cool $100k to "manage the odds and lines surrounding the entertainment sector ‐- ranging from celebrity news and pop culture to music and movies."

Sources close to Spencer tell TMZ, he's considering the gig -- but in light of the recent political turmoil between CR and Nicaragua ... he's "looking into how he can legally own a firearm over there so that he can protect himself."

Fingers crossed.

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Heidi & Spencer Pratt Visit The Hustler Club

If you were looking for backup dancers for your next music video - where would you look?

If you're Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt, you go to a strip club in Sin City (of course!), and Radar Online has the pics.

Yes, our favorite reality TV trainwrecks visited the Hustler Club in Las Vegas on Saturday night, but it was strictly 'business'.

The recently reconciled (assuming they even did break-up) couple said they were there to scout a location for Heidi's next music video and to search for backup dancers.

The surgically-enhanced Heidi posed with some of the scantily clad ladies, and they even showed her showed her some of their moves. (As if Heidi's never been on a pole before!)

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Heidi & Spencer Pratt: We Are Bankrupt 'Idiots'

Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt are apparently dead broke and living at Spencer's parents house.

In the new issue of Life & Style magazine, the worlds most annoying couple admits they blew through $10 million dollars.

After spending $35,000 per month on rent for their Malibu pad, $3 million on Heidi’s "music career," renting studios and paying producers, spending hundreds of thousands on Heidi’s surgeries and aftercare, six cars, healing crystals and private jets the fame hungry couple now owe $2 million in taxes, are considering filing for bankruptcy and are homeless.

“We were immature, worrying too much about the famous part instead of the actual business part,” Spencer tells Life & Style. “In hindsight, we shouldn’t have spent any of our money. We should have been low-key and saved.” Spencer continues, ““We spoke with a bankruptcy attorney and I’ve looked into unemployment checks.”

He added, “We thought The Hills was going to be like 90210 and we’d have another five to 10 years,” Spencer says. “The ratings were consistent. But we never saw Jersey Shore coming. Before, TV audiences were fine with seeing us all argue, but now they want you to punch one another in the face and hook up with three different people. Our cast was a bit boring and snoozeworthy in comparison. No wonder we got canceled.”

Spencer claims they're now living at his parent’s house in their guesthouse—a studio apartment. “My parents are my lifeline.” And for once, his statements aren’t an exaggeration. “Spencer’s parents go to the grocery store for us once a week and that’s all we get.”

Sounds hard to believe that someone can blow through $10 mil, but Heidi's so called music career was definitely a bad move. Spending half a million on crystals wasn't a bright idea, and Heidi's shoe and handbag collection would have sent anyone into bankruptcy.

Sadly no one even cares about these two anymore. After all the surgeries, fake breakup and non stop publicity, we're just over Speidi. And in case you're wondering, they didn't even get the cover for their sad story, they just got a small picture on the side.

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Heidi: I've Had "Ups and Downs" With My Body

Reunited spouses Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt packed on the PDA in Las Vegas on Saturday, where Montag, 24, hosted Pure nightclub's Halloween Haunt. Pratt, 26, dressed as a Close-Encounters-style alien; Montag skipped a costume, but showed off her surgically-enhanced curves in a gold mini-dress.

"I'm Heidi Montag for Halloween," she told reporters on the red carpet. "I designed my own dress."

How does Montag feel about her body (she famously had 10 procedures done in one day) these days? "Um, ups and downs!" she said. "I'm good. I'm just trying to focus on other things, not focus so much on my body."

A lot has happened since then. The Hills, the MTV reality show that made them stars, aired its final episode. And over the summer, the pair (who married in April 2009) separated, filed for divorce and then reunited.

Montag gushed on the red carpet that, this time around, she's "enjoying our relationship. I had so much going on [before, I didn't have a chance to enjoy being a newlywed."

One thing that's definitely real: Montag's sad isolation from most of her friends and family. Her mom Darlene Egelhoff hasn't seen her daughter in nine months, and is now working as a maid in Crested Butte, Colo. to make ends meet.

Egelhoff -- who loudly objected to Heidi's surgery and her husband Pratt -- admitted to Inside Edition that it's awkward when folks now recognize her from The Hills.

"That's very humbling for me and I very much appreciate that experience because I don’t ever want to get full of myself and think I’m too good to do anything."

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Heidi & Spencer Pratt's Pure Halloween Party

Spending the holiday in Sin City, Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt were side-by-side at Pure nightclub inside Caesars Palace Hotel in Las Vegas on Saturday night (October 30).

The attention-loving pair shared smooches with Spencer also making time to play around with a stuffed doll while hosting a Halloween bash at the popular nightspot.

During their time in Vegas, Heidi chatted with Doug Elfman of the Las Vegas Review-Journal about being back together with Pratt.

She said, "Fortunately, we are together. So it's been a long summer, and we are together, and I'm so excited to be in Vegas together and to have our friends there."

Continuing on, Heidi gushed, "I'm definitely feeling the best I've ever felt."

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Heidi & Spencer Pratt's Pumpkin Beach Romp

Getting into the holiday spirit, Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt were spotted having a pumpkin of a good time while out near their Los Angeles home on Thursday afternoon (October 28).

Ever the outdoorsman, Spencer carved a face into his pumpkin with an army knife and put it over his head while Heidi made a half-hearted attempt to hide her chest with two smaller pumpkins. 

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Heidi Montag's Mom Now Works as a Maid

Darlene Egelhoff, who famously disapproved of daughter Heidi Montag's drastic plastic surgery, has fallen on hard times.

Struggling to make ends meet since her restaurant closed after 21 years, Egelhoff now cleans houses as a maid in her native Crested Butte, Colo., she tells Inside Edition Thursday.

Egelhoff admits that some of her new employers recognize her from The Hills. "That's very humbling for me and I very much appreciate that experience because I don’t ever want to get full of myself and think I’m too good to do anything," she says.

The reality mom -- who constantly butted heads with Montag's husband Spencer Pratt -- says her famous daughter, 24, has no idea about her financial troubles. She and Heidi haven't spoken in nine months -- when Heidi debuted her new face and body in a tense visit to Crested Butte shown on The Hills.

In a desperate attempt to get back in contact with Heidi, Egelhoff has even launched a personal blog, Metamorphosis of a Mother, in the hopes of Montag reading it.

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Eliminated Audrina Patridge Visits Jimmy Kimmel

Audrina Patridge was voted off Dancing With The Stars on Tuesday's results show, leaving ABC late night ace Jimmy Kimmel to pick up the pieces, as he does every week with the show's most recent castoff.

Kimmel continually said he was surprised at how early Patridge, a beautiful and skilled dancer, was eliminated.

Patridge told Kimmel, "I'm still in shock."

"There's no way you should have been voted off tonight," Kimmel said. "Did Heidi and Spencer have anything to do with this? I wouldn't put it past them, I really wouldn't.

"What percent is Tony's fault?" Kimmel asked Patridge. "Tony, you've been on ten seasons, you've never won -- you're bad luck, that's all there is to it."

Audrina said of the moment she was eliminated: "We had no idea we were going home tonight ... and then I heard Tony said, 'It's us.'"

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Heidi Montag Not Having Breast Reduction

Heidi Montag has decided not to have a breast reduction as she fears her life could be at risk if she has another cosmetic procedure.

The Hills star, who earlier this month reconciled with hubby Spencer Pratt, will not be having her boob implants removed, despite complaining that she 'regrets having surgery.'

Heidi told People magazine: "I will never have surgery again. (It) wasn't worth it. I just don't want to put my body under the knife again."

The 24-year old added that she would rather put up with her huge G-cup surgically enhanced chest then having them reduced, telling to the publication: "I would rather have a little bit too big of breasts than risk my life again."

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