TNA star Tessa Blanchard makes her return tonight at the ongoing Bound For Glory PPV but until tonight, hasn’t wrestled for the promotion since July. She wrestled her first match in three months on Friday for CMLL and now we know what she’s been up to.
In a YouTube video that Blanchard released today, she revealed that she has undergone breast augmentation surgery. The video appears recorded in multiple sessions – one before the surgery, one literally as she is being wheeled in and one where she is back on the road.
“I’ve been going back and forth on whether or not I wanted to share this with you all and it’s a bit personal. It’s vulnerable and honestly, I wasn’t really sure how it would be received but I’ve always tried to be real with the people who follow me. So, here it is: I have decided to get a boob job.”
“This isn’t something that I’m doing for clout. This isn’t a gimmick. It’s not about trying to live up to someone else’s idea of beauty. It’s something that I’ve thought about for a long time and now I’m finally doing it – but for me.”
“I’ve already had the consultation, the decision is made and soon I’ll be taking some time from wrestling to heal and take care of my body the way that it deserves. This wasn’t really an easy decision, especially taking time away from what I love to do. But this is part of honoring myself and my journey.”
“You know in wrestling there’s a lot of pressure. Spoken, unspoken and in February 2014, when I was about two months into my career after I started wresting, there was someone in the business, someone who had kinda mentored me in the beginning and they told me, ‘Tessa, you are never gonna make it in this business, you’re never gonna make it off the indies if you don’t have your breasts done.’ At the time, that really stung; it caught me off guard and I was a lot younger. I was trying to prove myself, find myself and hearing something like that, it will really mess with your head. You start to question your identity but the truth is, I did make it. I have main evented, I’ve won championships, I’ve made history and I did it all without changing my body for anyone else. And I’m very proud but now, I’m not that same girl anymore. I’ve grown, I’ve evolved. I’ve come to a place where it’s not about approval, it’s not about chasing acceptance. It’s about looking in the mirror and doing something that makes me feel good in my own skin.”
“I feel happy, I feel super, super happy with the results. And now I’m finally feeling normal again. I feel like I did this for me, this wasn’t for anyone else. I want to control the narrative on this. That’s the whole point of this video, is to control my own narrative about it. Because there’s going to be a million people that, once something is public, anyone and everyone is allowed to have an opinion, right? I don’t want this twisted into something that it’s not. This is for me. I feel happy.”
