When K. Michelle remembers what drove her to get silicone-filled injections into her buttocks greater than six years in the past, the singer and TV character says she felt it was one thing she wanted to reach music.
“I had simply acquired a brand new file deal and I felt like the larger the butt the larger the profession,” she tells ESSENCE. “I already had a giant butt. It was simply ridiculous.”
The star couldn’t have foreseen that she can be speaking about how the injections nearly killed her. After making an attempt to have the silicone eliminated, she came upon it unfold by way of her physique and was having dangerous results, together with on her capability to stroll. It might take years and a number of surgical procedures for the singer to have the ability to get to the place the place she is now, telling us she’s “most likely the healthiest I’ve been shortly.”
Within the means of wading by way of that ordeal, Okay began working to create a present to assist folks having comparable experiences. The result’s her new sequence, My Killer Body With K. Michelle, which makes its official premiere on February 3.
“There are a number of individuals who’ve gone by way of this who’re simply beginning to really feel the results of it,” she says of people featured on the sequence seeking to appropriate cosmetic surgery mishaps, whom she seeks to assist. “You even have ladies who not too long ago had this process and are feeling the results instantly.”
As cosmetic surgery has continued to surge in recognition, Okay says extra conversations must be had sufficient about the truth that many journeys beneath the knife don’t prove as deliberate.
“You solely see the wonder and also you solely see the tales…after they’ve Photoshopped their physique to loss of life, on prime of the surgical procedure,” she says. “What I wished to do was converse the entire reality and nothing however the reality about it.”
Within the present, we can even see her ongoing journey to be wholesome and joyful together with her physique. As a result of the silicone won’t ever be totally faraway from her system, she pays consideration to her physique, together with what she places in it by way of her food plan, in a approach she didn’t previously. As for embracing the place she is bodily now, she’s trustworthy about grappling with the need to get cosmetic surgery sooner or later.
“I’m going by way of a troublesome determination. My physician looks like I most likely want two extra reconstructions, and that’s for beauty, not well being. So for me, I battle,” she says. “Some days I’m like, ‘I’m by no means getting again on that desk!’ However then I’d placed on one thing after which a dent from my reconstruction is there and I say, ‘I’m going to get this fastened.’ I’m human. I commute.’”
She provides, “I like how I look. I really feel fairly. I really feel hopeful and I really feel joyful to be wholesome and in a position to operate. I believe that brings one other magnificence inside itself. I believe I acquired grown lady on me and I believe that’s lovely. So I’m in a great place with how I really feel about myself.”
That hasn’t stopped social media from claiming she’s already had work performed, although, which the star addressed in solely the comical approach she will.
“You know the way folks put our bodies on you? They put surgical procedures on me,” she says. “I’ve had a facelift on Monday and a brand new face by Wednesday. Allow them to inform it, it’s all the time one thing.”
That being stated, regardless of what folks assume, or what they might assume from watching My Killer Physique, Okay is not in opposition to cosmetic surgery. She simply needs everybody to concentrate on the dangers and do their analysis earlier than making a call to lie on the working desk.
“I’m for no matter you wish to do along with your physique. It’s a factor we should do referred to as analysis and even inside analysis, we are able to nonetheless decide that we don’t count on the result. That’s simply surgical procedure and it’s one thing you simply need to be mentally be ready for and perceive,” she says. “Know your medical historical past and what you’re going by way of. How does your physique react to various things earlier than going beneath the knife? It’s actually a self-study. It’s nothing fast that you must simply up and do. Similar to you analysis while you wish to purchase a automobile, you must undoubtedly analysis what you’re going to do along with your life and your physique since you solely get one.”
Take a look at extra of our dialog with Okay. Michelle about her well being journey, new music (together with her final R&B album and first nation one), her debut movie position in Lifetime’s Single Black Feminine and why you may’t put the star in a field.
My Killer Physique with Okay.Michelle premieres on Thursday, February 3 at 9/8c on Lifetime. Single Black Feminine, starring Amber Riley and Raven Goodwin, airs on Saturday, February 5 at 8/7c on Lifetime. Her last R&B album, I’m the Drawback, is coming quickly, and her nation album is due out this summer time.