When Katie Corio reached her thirties, her feelings around her breast implants changed. A bodybuilder, trainer and fitness model from San Diego, she had undergone breast augmentation at 24 — a surgery that seemed to be routine for her developing career, for which she was often in bikini tops or sports bras.

“I was young, and I was hungry, and I wanted to progress in the industry. Everyone was getting implants, and it was almost something that people expected you to do,” she said in a video interview.

Eight years on, though, the silicone implants she’d had placed under the muscle felt heavy and cumbersome, especially during pectoral exercises, Corio described. She felt she’d gone a size too big, and she’d lost sensitivity in her nipples following the surgery.

“It was getting so uncomfort

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