After 3 Pregnancies and Weight Fluctuations ‘Killed’ Her Body, She Got a Boob Job That Changed Everything (Exclusive)

Hedy PhillipsTue, July 28, 2026 at 8:45 AM UTC

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Leesa after her breast augmentationCredit: Leesa -

Mom of three Leesa says she always thought about a breast augmentation but never went through with it

She tells PEOPLE that nursing her three children “killed” her body, not to mention her major weight fluctuations over the years

She turned to plastic surgeon Dr. Michael Rose for a breast augmentation that changed how she felt about her appearance

Leesa’s body has been through a lot.

Not only has she birthed — and breastfed — three children, but she’s also seen her weight fluctuate a lot over the years. It was this combination of wear on her skin and her breasts in particular that led her to seek out a breast augmentation.

“I’ve struggled with my weight my entire life. I was very big. I was very small. I was very big. I was very small,” she tells PEOPLE exclusively. “I think nursing three children is what really killed me. I don’t mean to sound mean, but that was really what I think did me in. When I was pregnant, I had really, really large, enormous breasts. And then once I had my third, they just disappeared.”

Leesa (middle) before her breast augmentationCredit: Leesa

Leesa, 50, admits that the idea of a breast augmentation had always been a thought, considering many of her friends had had one done.

“It was always something I flirted with but said I would never do,” she shares. A big check in the “no” column for her was the downtime. As a busy mom with a full-time job, being out of commission for a couple weeks just didn’t sound doable.

Then she found out about the Preservé by Motiva technique that’s minimally invasive but would still deliver the results she was looking for. As a new-to-market innovation, not every plastic surgeon is doing this procedure, but Leesa tapped New Jersey-based surgeon Dr. Michael Rose for the job.

“She’s a working mom. She’s got kids. She likes to work out. She’s active. Women tend to put these things off, and I see this all the time,” Dr. Rose tells PEOPLE of Leesa’s backstory. “It’s all about the family, and they come last. When she found out about Preservé, she realized this is a way to kind of shoehorn this into my busy lifestyle because that’s what this technique allows.”

Leesa (right) after her breast augmentationCredit: Leesa

As Dr. Rose explains, with this technique, surgery can be done in as little as 30 minutes with only two small incisions under each breast. Using Motiva’s tools, the doctor creates a channel inside the breast, which opens a pocket for the Motiva SmoothSilk Ergonomix implants. There is no cutting of the muscle involved, and because there is less trauma to the body with this surgery, recovery tends to be much easier than a standard breast procedure.

Just like she wanted, Leesa was able to bounce back to her normal life pretty quickly after her procedure. While the medical recommendation is to still take it easy for a few days, patients can expect to do many of their usual activities as early as the next day.

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“I showered the next morning. I washed my own hair,” Leesa shares. “I volunteered at a fundraiser that Saturday. I got it done on Wednesday, and I was out running around selling raffle tickets. I had more downtime when I got my gall bladder out.”

Dr. Rose adds that Leesa was “back at it” with her routine right away, as he expected.

On deciding what she wanted her breasts to look like, Leesa says she did not want “big boobs,” rather, she was looking to “replace the volume” that she’d lost with her weight fluctuations.

“I felt like I had two empty socks,” she says. “I just wanted to fill them up, but I didn’t want to change my clothes size. So we went very small.”

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Once she was through the procedure, though, Leesa dealt with a normal amount of swelling that she said initially made her nervous but then made her almost wish she’d gone a bit bigger with the implants. Now fully healed, though, she’s content with her new appearance.

“We should be screaming from the rooftops,” she says of the Preservé technique and implants. “I know so many people that want to do this, and they’re afraid of downtime, surgery, anesthesia, pain. It’s just so simple; it was easier than wisdom teeth.”

And her result is “natural-looking” breasts, which is exactly what she was after. They also now have “a natural droop.”

“I did go back and forth a little bit just because I’m like, ‘Oh, am I too old for this?’” she says of questioning her plastic surgery plans. “But I thought, ‘Well, I’m 50. I hopefully have a few years left so I can enjoy this.’ I feel much better. I feel much more confident now.”

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