I’m a flattie. There’s a big push, especially in the US atm, to normalise flat closure. I had to get rid of both boobs when after my cancer diagnosis I was found to be a BRCA gene mutation carrier, my ovaries had to go, too. I was told that reconstruction for me would be up to eight hours of extra surgery as I had to have all breast tissue removed. I was only a month out from chemo and couldn’t bear the thought of it. Reconstruction not only means lots more surgery, add to that increased infection risk, months of having skin expanders, the fact that the process sometimes can and does fail, and that you can’t guarantee that the end result will look decent. That’s all without even considering the problems you can have with fat transference or worse, BII, breast implant illness. All that hassle for a pair of pseudo-boobs with no nipples. I can get that with falsies.
I’m two years on now, and I have no regrets. My tits tried to kill me, I don’t miss them, and I still have no desire to replace them.