I’m a casual fan of Dita Von Teese, and I tend to love how honest and nonchalant she is about subjects that would make other celebrities squeamish. She seems like a throwback performer, and sometimes her quotes sound like something from The Mae West Handbook For Being Awesome. These new quotes, not so much. Dita is talking about her past drug usage and how it ravaged her body in the 1990s. When she was getting clean and getting her body back to a healthy weight, Dita found that her old boobs weren’t really coming back. So she got herself some perky implants:

DITA VON TEESE went under the knife for a boob job at the age of 21 – because years of drug abuse had ravaged her body.

The burlesque beauty admits she began dabbling with illegal substances when she was a teenager, and her habit spiraled out of control throughout the 1990s.

Von Teese confesses the drugs took a major toll on her figure, but seeing herself so gaunt gave her the motivation to kick her addictions and she eventually opted for surgery to repair the damage.

She says, “I was a bit of a party girl in the early ’90s and used LSD and Ecstasy. Eventually my weight dropped to 6stone 7lbs and I looked terrible, so I gave up drugs. My breasts never recovered, so when I was 21 I had 32D implants. Now I‘m a healthy 8 stone and 2 pounds.”

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Call me crazy, but I didn’t know Dita had implants. That’s how good the work is – they look natural enough to my eyes, and I’m usually pretty good at spotting implants. I do wonder if she just got the implants put in and that’s it, or whether she’s gotten multiple procedures to keep them looking so perky.

Here’s Dita posing for a photo shoot for Harper’s Bazaar on 10/10/09. Credit: ELIOT PRESS/bauergriffinonline.com

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