You may have already heard me sharing about my health struggles due to breast implant illness, and my decision to remove my implants last year, and my subsequent recovery from the mysterious illness that had plagued me for 4 years. After my experience I knew that I had to speak up about this condition, even if it helps only one woman to figure out why her body, and her life, is falling apart.
It was a bit more challenging than I had expected to find someone to interview about this topic! I guess a lot of women are not yet ready to talk about it so publicly, and the women who are, and have the knowledge and the confidence to be interviewed, are incredibly busy people as they have dedicated their lives to helping the hundreds of thousands of women worldwide who are experiencing this condition.
And so I am very grateful for this conversation with Amanda Porta. Known as the Holistic Beauty Coach on Instagram, Amanda blends her love of aesthetics and natural health to help her clients achieve optimal results. She has worked in all areas of the beauty industry for 20 years and has trained under some of the best practitioners in the US.
In her twenties Amanda developed BII. It took her 7.5 years to realise why her health had deteriorated so badly, and finally to explant. After detoxing and healing, she is now in better health than ever, at the age of 49.
Amanda has found a niche as a patient advocate for women going through Breast Implant Illness. Thanks to her own experience, and by teaming up with a plastic surgeon to create the first “holistic breast team” She has advised thousands of women around the world from celebrities to athletes to prominent businesswomen and supported them through this contentious, emotional and ever growing health crisis.
You can find her on Instagram @theholisticbeautycoach (you'll have to type in the full handle before her account pops up as she is regularly shadowbanned and outright banned for her work speaking up against the corruption in big pharma, the beauty industry and plastic surgery)
