Evelyn, 31, lived with being self-conscious about her breasts for seven years before finally doing something about it
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- Evelyn got her first breast augmentation when she was 19 — but it didn’t go as planned
- For years, she lived with being self-conscious about how her breasts looked
- She eventually turned to Dr. Garth Fisher, who went viral in 2025 when Kylie Jenner revealed he was her plastic surgeon
The first time Evelyn got a breast augmentation, it was just to enhance the already "cute" chest she felt she had. She was only 19.
Evelyn went to a doctor recommended by the mother of the man she was dating at the time, not really second-guessing the advice. However, things immediately went wrong, she tells PEOPLE.
"I went to get surgery, and I remember I fell asleep, and when I woke up, I just felt so much pressure and like an elephant was sitting on my chest," she describes. "I looked down and they were so high up. But I was on the effects of the anesthesia and medication and in a lot of pain."
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She immediately knew something was "weird," and her pain and pressure continued for days. She says her breasts were very separated and her nipples were pointing downward unnaturally. Right away, she was unhappy with the results. After telling the doctor this in the days after, though, he told her that she needed to give her breasts time to settle.
"They never did," Evelyn says. Despite doing everything she was told as part of her aftercare, her breasts stayed an unnatural shape and composition. Because life got in the way, she had to live with them for years. When she was breastfeeding her first son, she says the milk in her breasts helped the shape, but as soon as she was done, they reverted to the "discombobulated look."
Evelyn candidly admits that she felt "so ugly and uncomfortable" with her breasts, which wasn't something she anticipated. As she got older, she says she started to realize that she got the boob job in the first place because of a "lack of confidence."
After having a daughter and being fed up with her appearance, Evelyn met with Beverly Hills, Calif.-based plastic surgeon Dr. Garth Fisher in March 2022 when she was 27.
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"That completely changed my life," she says. Evelyn, a medical aesthetician based in New York, opted for a "subtle" look.
"She thought she needed a breast lift, but really the problem was her implant was just placed in the wrong position," Dr. Fisher tells PEOPLE. "So that implant was taken out, along with the breast capsule. The muscle was released in the correct spot, and the implant dropped down so the breast looked really good afterward."
Dr. Fisher, who went viral in June 2025 when Kylie Jenner spoke out about him doing her breast augmentation, explains that he likes to put the implant "partially into muscle" because it keeps the breasts a natural shape. "Half under muscle, half on top," he describes of how he places the implants.
Evelyn, who is now 31, couldn't have been more happy with her results from Dr. Fisher. "I was traumatized, I didn't know who to trust," she says of how she felt before the plastic surgery. "I was so scared of going to fix it and then ending up with just another version that I hated."
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Dr. Fisher tells PEOPLE that the most "gratifying" part of his job is patient satisfaction, so knowing how pleased Evelyn was with her results meant a lot to him. "There's nothing that feels better than being able to contribute to somebody's life," he says. "Well-being and health and now plastic surgery, there's nothing more gratifying than seeing somebody come in the office with a problem that they've been very shy about. And then when you correct it, they're full of confidence and they're happy."
Having her daughter also pushed Evelyn to make this change, she says, because she didn't want her to ever feel a lack of confidence in herself because of her appearance. "We're always putting ourselves last," she says of women and moms especially. "We end up living with our insecurities for so long without having to. We deserve to feel good in our bodies and feel gorgeous and feel like queens no matter what."
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