In her new memoir, Sharon Stone, 63, has written that her plastic surgeon gave her larger breast implants without her consent, who told her that they would “go better” with her body.
The Basic Instinct star explains in her memoir – The Beauty of Living Twice – that in 2001, she was undergoing breast reconstruction surgery after the removal of benign tumors that were “gigantic, bigger” than her breast alone, according to PEOPLE.
Stone said she discovered that her surgeon have her large breast implants when she woke up after the reconstructive surgery, according to The Times.
She said, “When I was unbandaged, I discovered that I had a full cup-size bigger breasts, ones that he said ‘go better with your hip size.’ He had changed my body without my knowledge or consent.”
Stone questioned her surgeon on her larger breast size. He told her that he “thought that I would look better with bigger, ‘better’ boobs.”
The Silver actress also writes in her memoir about experiencing stroke and cerebral hemorrhage in 2001, when she was 43. She told Willie Geist on Sunday Today that she was lying in a hospital bed and a doctor told her that she was close to death.
Stone recalled, “The room was so silent. When the room is so silent and no one’s running around trying to fix you, that’s when you realize how near death is and how serious everything is.”
She took a two-year break from acting to recover and rebuild her health. However, in a 2019 interview with Variety, she said the stroke stunted her career and she struggled to find work for seven years.
Stone said, “People treated me in a way that was brutally unkind. From other women in my own business to the female judge who handled my custody case, I don’t think anyone grasps how dangerous a stroke is for women and what it takes to recover.”
“I had to remortgage my house,” she continued. “I lost everything I had. I lost my place in the business. I was like the hottest movie star, you know? It was like Miss Princess Diana and I were so famous, and she died and I had a stroke. And we were forgotten.”
She told Geist, “I’m in a really grateful place. When I was a kid, I always wanted to have a house full of kids running and screaming and dogs, and I got it. And I feel very blessed and happy about the life I got. We’re happy together, and what’s better than that?” The story was originally published Monday on PEOPLE.
