Blac Chyna says she got cosmetic surgeries as a teenager because she felt insecure around other women while working as a stripper
- Blac Chyna has revealed why she chose to have cosmetic surgeries as a teenager.
- "Insecurities," said Chyna, whose real name is Angela White.
Blac Chyna has revealed why she chose to have cosmetic surgeries as a teenager, including getting illegal butt injections.
"Insecurities," Chyna, whose real name is Angela White, said during an appearance on "Tamron Hall" on Thursday.
"I was an exotic dancer for six years from the ages of 18 to 24 years old. And being inside the strip club or the gentleman's club, you're looking around — I'm super young — I'm looking at the women like, I'm looking at myself like, 'Okay, that's not it. This is not gonna make the money. This is not gonna do it.'"
White said she felt "pressure" to "hurry up and build" her body so she could look like her coworkers.
"I should've just waited until I was older because that's gonna happen," she said. "At 19, 18 years old, your body's not developed. And you know, in my mindset, I wasn't thinking about that, and nobody was telling me, you know, right from wrong."
White has recently been undergoing some dramatic lifestyle changes, which have included adopting her birth name, getting baptized, and having many of her cosmetic procedures reversed.
In March, the reality star revealed that she'd had breast and butt implant reductions, as well as her facial fillers removed.
She said the surgeries were the first steps in "changing my life and changing my ways."
White's plastic surgeon, Dr. David Matlock, told Access Hollywood that he spent eight hours removing the silicon from her butt.
"The physical dangers of getting illegal fillers are many," Matlock said. "You can have infection, abbesses, sepsis. Sepsis patients can die from that."
White said that the amount of silicon removed from her rear was the equivalent of two liters of Coca-Cola.
"You know how many CCs I took out? 1,250 CCs," she said, referring to cubic centimeters. "A 2-liter Coke bottle all in my booty."