Breast Reduction Surgery — Is It Safe? Real Questions Answered by Dr. Kinnera Reddy.

[00:00:00]Women with larger breasts. [music] So many people have asked me this question that surgery mandatory especially when young girls feel uncomfortable with their own breast and when they want to approach the doctor their own family members tell them surgery breast cancer heavy weight of the breast is going to affect on your and when I say surgery it is not something dangerous just blabber some myths about plastic surgery you know plastic surgery >> [music] >> plastic surgery it is a total myth [music] post pregnancy now people who are ignoring the score muscles what do you think it is very very important like I said irrespect of whether you're pregnant or not every woman should make sure that they are doing strength training they're improving their core overall body muscles strength training it's is mandated exercise again a myth. Pregnancy we are not very fit. Are we following a good diet? Are we doing you know proper exercise? Are we following a healthy lifestyle? No strength training.

[00:01:24]That is the biggest gift you can give your woman in your life.

[00:01:29]Pregnant reconstructive procedures majority of them [music] are actually covered under insurance also.

[00:01:39]Absolutely right. Yes. [music] >> Hello, I'm Sai and I'm really really excited because I'm finally getting to interview my favorite doctor Dr. Kenduri. Hello doctor, how are you doing?

[00:01:55]>> Hi Sakupa, how are you? I am absolutely doing great and thanks to you.

[00:01:59][laughter] So today related to young women or women in general.

[00:02:08]>> So my first question to you is >> you know all of us how [clears throat] >> either or your friends and your own family sort of body shame you.

[00:02:24]Right?

[00:02:28]And we lose our own self, right? We don't see ourselves like the way we are, but we look at us the way people look at us.

[00:02:39]>> Yeah.

[00:02:39]>> So what is your take on it?

[00:02:41]>> Yeah. So um you see interestingly India has a very fascinating relationship with women.

[00:02:48]>> Correct.

[00:02:49]>> Okay. Uh one hand we worship women >> right?

[00:02:53]>> Okay. So we decor decorate the temples you know we fold our hands and pray to goddesses uh in the devotion to we but on the other hand when you see a real woman walk into a room suddenly everyone becomes a judge. Okay.

[00:03:25]So multiple things. Okay. Everyone suddenly you know feel like they have the authority to judge them. Okay. Not just about the looks. If you see if you are you know confident they judge you.

[00:03:38]If you are quiet they judge you. If you you know be over ambitious they judge you. If you don't do anything they judge you. So whatever it is uh somehow in our country we get that uh you know everybody suddenly becomes a judge and they judge them. Unfortunately we also tend to you know get affected by those judgments.

[00:03:59]>> Absolutely. And mana the way the kids the young girls grow up seeing all these things >> mentally psychologically somewhere they lose that confidence >> you know um everybody's unique in their own skin in their own qualities or you know different anatomical parts of the body but still they are expected to look a certain way only then you are like you know good-looking otherwise if they start labeling you. Correct. So I think that it has to I don't know evolve today even if we are in 2026 we are still doing that.

[00:04:44]>> Correct. [clears throat] So that um you know that uh irony is incredible. But I think one day, one fine day when people start respecting women in flesh and you know start treating them with a lot of respect. I think that day we are >> forward actually.

[00:05:04]>> Great. True. We all all looking forward for such days. So when I was growing up um as I said I'm I wouldn't call myself as a victim but I've been through body shaming [clears throat] body shaming the technology has gone so far that >> you can buy and do everything >> right >> the question is is it affordable or not is it >> for you or not so Women with larger breasts, >> right?

[00:05:40]>> Either because of genetics or because they are not taking care of themselves >> they suffer with this larger breast >> and I did too.

[00:05:50]>> You know, I wanted you to educate us a little >> about what can they do >> and larger breast.

[00:06:03]My first question to you.

[00:06:04]>> Yeah. So um unfortunately a lot of young women present to us with uh abnormally large breasts. So you know it's not even just related to pregnancy. Sometimes um young girls you know just right after their puberty even before they get married you see them with large breasts are the genetic reasons most common thing that we see. Okay. And uh some uh where you know after puberty because of the hormonal uh issues or because of the unhealthy lifestyle the stress everything everything there are multiple factors to it >> right >> apart from pregnancy of course pregnancy is a physiological aspect where the breast enlarge in size >> correct even if a woman doesn't go until doesn't even reach pregnancy even before that she will experience an enlarged breast unfortunately so the Um I mean I've so many people have asked me this question that workout surgery mandator especially when young girls feel uncomfortable with their own breast and when they want to approach the doctor their own family members tell them why don't you work you know those kinds of ridiculous myths.

[00:07:25]>> Correct.

[00:07:26]>> Okay. So um see breast is uh uh it's an organ now it has got multiple aspects in it. There is muzzle underneath but in the breast there is breast gland mamary gland. It's present both in women and men. Of course men lo it is slightly smaller in size and women lo it is larger in size and along with that mammary gland there's fat. Now this fat either enlarges or it shrinks based on whether you put on overall weight cell right now the gland is always affected either because of the hormones or genetic issues mostly um physiologically during pregnancy and all that and puberty it increases in size. Now once the gland enlarges it is almost impossible to get rid of that large gland through exercises alone.

[00:08:20]>> Now the fat definitely yes you will uh you will you know reduce the amount of fat. You will be able to do it with diet, exercise, healthy lifestyle all that will help you for the fat >> but not the gland. Now for gland there's only one solution. It is the surgery.

[00:08:36]And when I say surgery, it is not something dangerous.

[00:08:40]>> Correct.

[00:08:41]>> So we all, you know, there's so much of advancement in the technology. We're all skilled. We know how to operate carefully without leading you into a complications.

[00:08:50]>> Correct. So pre- pregnancy we can reduce the gland size and make sure that you can go through pregnancy normally like the other women can also feed the baby through breast with breast milk.

[00:09:07]>> Amazing.

[00:09:09]>> Okay. Now my next question to you uh doctor like the way you said they won't grow in size because >> uh because of the fat cells or you [clears throat] correcting the whole procedure of it right >> uh so after pregnancy let's say they put on weight in the future it's not going to affect them in any way so that is once done is done is that true [clears throat] >> yes so once the surgery is done the gland size once you reduce it it's not going to increase in size unless and until you go through you know the same kind of um stress or uh you know the trigger like pregnancy or something mild increase in the gland is expected >> if you again go through pregnancy but it's not going to come back to the original size like how it was prior to the surgery.

[00:09:54]>> But if you do not go through a massive change in your lifestyle like a pregnancy what we give you is the end result for the rest of your life.

[00:10:02]>> Amazing.

[00:10:04]Now there are also a lot of myths about you know people consider this as obviously a plastic surgery and then when you go to a plastic surgeon they're very very expensive >> you know so and there are influencers who are giving the free advices >> right right >> you know >> so what is your take on uh plastic surgeon being expensive and then it's >> yeah so recently um I have seen a funny uh interview uh a journalist, a famous journalist, >> right?

[00:10:36]>> Uh you know, he's got pretty good number of followers and all that. Uh in a Telugu news channel, he was blabbering so much about plastic surgeon like as if his entire family consists of all plastic surgeons.

[00:10:51]>> Okay, that was very funny. The way I mean being a journalist media alone too, you have a lot of responsibility to deliver the right facts. Correct.

[00:10:59]>> So many people are looking at you.

[00:11:01]You're an influencer. So many people will, you know, follow your advice and how ridiculous it was on his part to uh, you know, just blabber some myths about plastic surgery. You know, plastic surgery and so first get your facts down. See, plastic doesn't mean just cosmetic.

[00:11:27]There are so many things in it. Okay?

[00:11:29]There is reconstruction, there is cosmetic reconstructive procedures, majority of them are actually covered under insurance also.

[00:11:38]>> Absolutely right. And even if it's not a reconstructive procedure, if let us consider it as a pure cosmetic procedure, still it is pretty much affordable. You know when you compare it with other sies like knee surgery, kidney surgery, eye surgery with surgery like when you get it done in a corporate hospital, the charges are usually based on the number of hours that we utilize.

[00:12:06]Okay. So 2 hours it is a total myth. And today's interview is not about we talking about how you can be confident by just getting a perfect shape or like you know implant silicons. That's a topic for another day.

[00:12:27]>> But today is all about how uh a lot of girls are suffering and how [clears throat] we can get the solution for it. M >> you know that's the interview.

[00:12:39]>> So we spoke about it and the least that you could do is just approach a doctor, >> take the knowledge >> and if it isn't working out for you, if you're still not happy about it, that's okay. Absolutely. All that you're doing is just paying a consultation fee to the doctor's time and there's nothing about it.

[00:13:03]>> Yeah. M >> ki let's now talk about >> let's say there are women who have a larger breast and they're not able to do anything about it because of the [clears throat] education or >> let's say they continue their life like that >> I wanted you to tell us how it affects >> not just the confidence but the healthwise >> right right >> so larger breast cosmetic It is of course definitely social embarrassment and all that is 100% accepted >> but you end up suffering so much you know uh the heavy weight of the breast is going to affect on your uh neck you will end up neck pain shoulders um upper back pain they end up in a very serious spine issues later on and underneath the breast because of the huge volume you end up getting a lot of recurrent fungal infections accumulate you know repeated infections and you know for some people there is a condition called hydroitis it is a condition where you know repeatedly you get infections there and it's a very painful situation now a A lot of them don't understand that it is a very simple surgical uh procedure. You know, it's almost like a daycare procedure.

[00:14:40]You you can just get it done in a couple of hours and for the rest of your life, you can, you know, just get rid of all these problems, >> right?

[00:14:49]>> The heavy weight that you've been carrying for years is just going to go in a couple of hours and you're under the guidance of a expert. That is we're doing this on daily basis. So I think first if you can consult your doctor we'll give you the options and then you weigh the pros and consequences.

[00:15:15]We'll give you the options.

[00:15:18]You can definitely consult your family members and then take a decision for it.

[00:15:24]I am born with this so I'm going to live with this for the rest of my life. You know it's like as if I'm I have a curse so I have to live with this a lot of women should you know get rid of this thought.

[00:15:35]>> Absolutely. And I see you know women in general do not work out.

[00:15:43]So we have very less muscle as it is right >> and once uh girls get pregnant obviously your tummy is enlarged and you go through the whole pregnancy part of it.

[00:15:55]there's no control over the food or anything else. Right?

[00:15:59]>> So, and once the pregnancy is done, >> most of them think it's all done because now you're too shy about your stretch marks. You're too shy about the way your breasts are looking or like >> the whole thing about it.

[00:16:12]>> So, I feel there is a solution to it and most of them are not even aware of >> the term diasis rectile. Right. So what is the solution for that?

[00:16:32]>> So yeah, so pregnancy it's a physiological thing and it's one of motherhood itself is like one of the most precious thing a woman can go through in her entire life.

[00:16:43]>> Correct.

[00:16:44]>> But that should not steal her away from you know who she is. Yeah. who she is and being confident in her own skin.

[00:16:52]>> Correct.

[00:16:53]>> So pregnancy tawata whatever physiological changes that happen during pregnancy once the baby is out of the mother's womb slowly the mother will nature has created uh the woman's body in such a way that after the delivery slowly the woman will actually start getting back to her pre-preg state.

[00:17:12]>> Correct.

[00:17:12]>> But if you leave it to nature in because you know pregnancy mundu we are not very fit. Are we following a good diet? Are we doing you know proper exercise? Are we following a healthy lifestyle? No. So we are just you know loading ourselves with a lot of carbohydrates doing so many unnecessary things. Taking more rest than actually required living a very sedentary lifestyle thinking that if I move the baby it might hurt the baby. So I'm going to sit still take more rest l so doing all these things will actually affect the outcome post pregnancy. I mean post your delivery >> right?

[00:17:49]>> So if you consider a woman who is very fit pre- pregnancy the way she bounces back to her uh you know post pregnancy thing >> is far way you know better than a woman who's not who's not into physical activity or was more sedentary during her pre-reg state. So out healthy lifestyle a very good diet all these are mandatory whether you become pregnant of course every woman should do this and exercise again a myth in fact you should work out more to increase your muscle mass and become more strong >> so exercise key no Even there is there's no doubt or arguments of whether you should do it or not. But post pregnancy immediately after delivery they ignore themselves. The complete attention is towards the baby. Now the entire family, everybody's attention is towards the baby. Mother herself gives attention to the baby. So there is no one to actually guide the mother to go through you know her post pregnancy the changes that she has to inculcate in her routine to make sure that she's bouncing back to her pre-reg state. So if you're just not allowing your body to heal and then you do a lot of unnecessary things you know like over stressing yourself not taking adequate rest overfeeding yourself with lot of carbohydrates so that you can pump more milk to the baby mother extra fat by the time you realize you know that you're unnecessarily accumulating a lot of fat you're already you've gained too many kilos now it's difficult for you to reduce all that weight >> right >> so mindful if you can go through your diet and exercise post pregnancy definitely without a surgery you can go back to your pre-reg state >> correct >> but unfortunately we're all there to help you so if you can reach us out we will tell you what kind of procedures are necessary for you to gain back that confidence So diastasis and most commonly we see in fact just in housewives also most of them you know because of multiple pregnancies repeated gap and also you know becoming pregnant and delivering in their late 30s early 40s and not exercising not doing physiootherapy post delivery there'll be weakness in the core the rectus muscle becomes weak now I think multiple sometimes expand what we call diastasis.

[00:20:50]>> Now I unfortunately I've seen a lot of videos on Instagram where you know they are guided by non-medical experts about you know uh tying something very tight around your belly and just doing some random exercises.

[00:21:06]Um so that that actually hurts like definitely physiootherapy helps, exercise helps but it has to come from a doctor. Correct. Okay. So um now no matter how much exercise you do, how much physiotherapy you do, how much you activate your core muscles to a certain extent.

[00:21:26]But if the damage is too much, if the gap between the muscles is too much then that's where you'll need a expert advice and then you'll need a surgical help there. Correct?

[00:21:37]>> Now once we repair the muscles so you know we do a procedure called tummy tuck. So the excess sagging skin fat we discarded and then a weak muscles >> and then we give you a nice toned abdomen.

[00:21:54]If you follow up with exercises the results are incredible right >> now who can avoid this surgery? Somebody with minimal weakness you know minimal skin sagging less lower belly fat accumulation definitely you can go ahead with just the exercises and diet. But if you're someone who's got massive diastasis, you know, somebody with amal hernia or any hernas in the abdomen, then you definitely need a surgical help because otherwise if you do unguided exercise, it's going to, you know, unnecessarily land you in trouble.

[00:22:27]>> Absolutely right.

[00:22:28]>> Yeah.

[00:22:29]>> And I feel you know this is your core muscles, right? That's how it's called core.

[00:22:34]>> Right.

[00:22:35]Now people who are ignoring the score muscles what do you think would it is not to scare anybody out there >> but I feel people need to understand that one can actually live a very healthy life >> until they're alive >> you know >> and somehow with all this pregnancy or like you know larger breast >> this is somewhere affecting your back your core and eventually it gets you into a state where >> uh madam And you have see how body compensates right?

[00:23:12]If your core is weak something else is taking the load. The work is being done.

[00:23:19]Eventually >> the entire body has a lot of pain.

[00:23:22]>> Absolutely right.

[00:23:23]>> And your living has become so difficult then it goes onto your joints and that's when you think like problem joints problem.

[00:23:33]So this is how you need to do things >> or like let's say for the pregnant women >> okay >> do this >> the moment you see see this this is what you go to do what would you tell them >> yeah so uh definitely so core the the minute you use that word core we know we are emphasizing on a very very important word right so um important We address it as you know that's the core issue the core problem.

[00:24:08]>> So our core especially the strength of the core muscles is very very important.

[00:24:13]>> Correct.

[00:24:14]>> Now the minute you realize the importance of that then you're sorted for life.

[00:24:19]>> Correct.

[00:24:19]>> That's the only thing that you should uh you know try to understand how important it is.

[00:24:25]>> Correct.

[00:24:25]>> Once that is done then you're good.

[00:24:27]>> Yeah. So um it is very very important like I said irrespect of whether you're pregnant or not every woman should make sure that they are doing strength training they're improving their core overall body muscles strength training it's mandatory there is no argument about this at all now post pregnancy immediately after vaginal delivery in maybe a couple of weeks early but C-section maybe you can wait for 2 3 weeks more but at least give your body like maybe like 2 3 months time for it to recover. But as soon as possible, as early as possible, if you can hit the gym and slowly start, you know, first start with pelvic floor muscle strengthening and then go to your core muscles and overall uh the rest of the body also strength training.

[00:25:17]You're you're literally doing yourself a very big favor.

[00:25:22]>> Absolutely. So that is the biggest gift you can give your wife or your mother, your sister by educating them how important it is uh you know post delivery strength training important that is the biggest gift you can give your woman in your life.

[00:25:41]>> Correct. And again the thing is like let's say you know how you said couple of them would have like a heavy the gap between their ab muscles or like >> um when can they approach you?

[00:25:54]>> Yeah. So uh immediately post delivery once the you know body recovers from delivery uh and once your baby is doing fine once you have your thing sorted maybe 3 months down the lane you can have your first visit to your doctor and we'll guide you about what kind of exercise you can start with initially and then slowly you have to upgrade. So uh instead of turning up to the doctor after 2 years or 3 years after pregnancy, if you can visit them in your early postpartum then you know you can probably avoid going through a lot of plastic surgery procedures and just get proper guidance from them and you know do away with the diet and exercise that will help a lot but if you end up coming at a later stage by then all the damage is already done then you will end up getting the procedures done. Okay. Now my next question to you is like how you know minimum [clears throat] people have two kids let's say they already have this sagging thing if I have to have would it come to the same place again >> how do they go about it yeah so post pregnancy whatever changes that happen in the mother pregnancy we have come up with a procedure called mommy makeover. Now that includes breast surgery you know heavy breast volume it's customized based on the mother's you know every mother will have and we combine it with a tummy tuck procedure sometimes liposuction of the arms and thighs because they end up accumulating a lot of fat >> and we also combine it with a procedure called vaginoplasty because of multiple vaginal deliveries while vagina lacks vagina tighten procedure vagia. Now all these procedures we combine and do it on one single day under the same go under the same anesthesia so that the downtime is reduced you know uh mothers it is very difficult for them to take multiple down times. Correct. uh and the downtime irrespective of whether you get one procedure done or 10 procedures done the downtime is pretty much uh same until the number of days of rest that you require are the same only the pain threshold that alters. So uh mommy procedures now when we do these we we generally advise them to finish their family and then come to us for these procedures just for the fact that if you go through another pregnancy there will be more sagging you might end up in corrective procedures before so correct time to get it done is after you finish your family. Yeah. So uh as good as maybe 1 year once you're done with the family you can come and consult your plastic surgeon. But for some cases uh you know the changes that happen in the pregnancy are so severe that they're very traumatizing to the mother. True >> and sometimes they you know uh sometimes they end up thinking that I'm I should not be having a second kid because of these changes.

[00:29:05]If it is too severe, if the breast is extremely painful, tender, too much heavy, then we do the procedures and ask them to give at least one to two years gap after the procedure to go ahead with the pregnancy again.

[00:29:24]Just that if you give some time then that's fine. Yeah. But instead of you know pregnant corrective procedures after the family's completed change that is ideal thing to do >> correct depending upon the severity we sometimes in exception cases we do before the second pregnancy also.

[00:29:44]>> Got it >> doctors. So um to the young women out there or to the mothers or to the ones who are already in their 40s or 50s >> who are suffering with all of the things but they have no way to talk about it and sort it out.

[00:30:02]>> Yeah. So, so if you're not confident in your own skin, if you're not confident enough uh and if you're not inspiring your own self, what message are you giving to your own family?

[00:30:19]>> How are you inspiring your daughter? How are you inspiring your sisters? How are you inspiring your colleagues or people, your friends and all that?

[00:30:26]>> Correct. So I think real empowerment is not by you know physically helping out another woman.

[00:30:33]>> Correct?

[00:30:34]>> It comes from within. Okay. The change has to happen within. Now if you stand for yourself and if you get things done uh to whatever it takes to bring back that confidence in you, you are indirectly empowering so many people around you.

[00:30:51]>> Correct? So if there's anything that's troubling you, if there's anything that is, you know, cutting your confidence down, >> come forward and we're all there to help you out. Now, if you know that this is under safe limits, >> you should not think back or you should not, you know, take a back step. I think you should get these procedures done.

[00:31:13]And just to summarize um >> you know a lot of them must be like if they don't really understand what is that we're trying to say >> uh we are not trying to sell you know a plastic surgery or get more fair or get more have sixack ab and then you know flaunt yourself >> absolutely not >> that's not >> larger breast and I feel every women have a right to >> have these basic basic things sorted.

[00:31:43]>> Absolutely.

[00:31:44]>> And it is a responsibility of a husband or if she's working women, she need to really really check these things >> and take her hormones, her health into >> uh control, >> right?

[00:31:56]>> And lead a life.

[00:31:58]>> Absolutely. That's absolutely right.

[00:31:59]>> And I wanted to share one such experience with you that I had. You know what? I'm very very grateful for you. At the right time, I approached you for something that I was suffering with and 34 years injection and and for me it was like a >> I don't know if I could trust anything uh if I could you know actually get something done a cut on my body but >> uh what we did we'll discuss on another day [laughter] >> kie I'm very very grateful and thankful to you I'm telling you that don't get the procedures done if you do not want to if it is not something that you're looking for ki if you're suffering with something >> at least approach a right doctor.

[00:32:45]>> Exactly.

[00:32:46]>> Take their time, ask your questions and know about it.

[00:32:50]>> Exactly.

[00:32:51]>> And then take a call if you want to do it or not.

[00:32:53]>> Yeah.

[00:33:03]procedure procedure you don't know no influencer is seeing all million people out there right >> and most of them are actually thinking right >> I know unfortunately yeah >> yeah and then who are all these people which degree did they do and which college are they from I think you should meet a right doctor.

[00:33:38]Yeah. Thank you, Ka. Because see, we need more people like you, you know, coming up and talking to media and spreading that awareness, you know, it it's definitely not about vanity or something. Plastic surgery.

[00:33:52]>> Yeah. You look like a different person with all.

[00:33:54]>> So, we we're not here to send you all to Medcala or [laughter] Absolutely right. So if you need something definitely we're there to help you out.

[00:34:10]>> Yeah, absolutely. A lot of women I think you know when they're entering into menopause state >> because of the larger breast or let's say they again core being weak >> 95% of women have babies >> right >> and they never would have worked out in their life.

[00:34:27]>> Right. Right. Right.

[00:34:28]>> Okay. They'll have the shoulder pain. I know >> you know frozen shoulder or neck pain >> and okay let's say even if you have help there are certain things only you will do it >> and if they're not able to do that that's you're not living your basic lifestyle.

[00:34:44]>> Exactly. Yeah.

[00:34:45]>> So definitely yes they should see a doctor like you.

[00:34:48]>> So functional reasons I think they should not hesitate first.

[00:34:52]>> Correct.

[00:34:52]>> Yeah.

[00:34:56]I think you should at least come forward and take that first bold step it at least that first initial step I think it should be taken >> yeah I think we should u do often meet and greet with such people who would want to uh talk to you and like >> absolutely I would love to do that >> thank you so much doctor for your time and everything >> my pleasure absolutely my pleasure and I hope this is useful for someone out there. Absolutely. I I'm sure you answered today so many questions from a trainer's perspective and a you know from a common women perspective and I'm sure they'll find the answers and they know whom to reach. Yeah. Thank you doctor. My pleasure.