A woman who chose to remove her breasts simply because she didn’t want them says horrified strangers tell her she’d be better off dead.
Siarra Lutton voluntarily underwent surgery because she hated the way her chest looked.
The 30-year-old disliked the way clothes fit on her body and craved a more “male physique” – but does not identify as male.
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Siarra, who has over 150,000 followers online, where she often shares details of her operation, says it not only shocks some viewers but leaves them so enraged they send her horrifying messages.
“I really struggled with the way my chest looked in clothes and the way I looked at myself without clothes,” the remodelling consultant told Need To Know.
Siarra after surgery. (Jam Press/Siarra Lutton)
“When my sports bra could no longer hide my breasts, I used a binder but eventually just realised if I don’t like something about myself, I have free will to change it.
“I craved a body that was more tailored to a male physique, however, I don’t identify as male.
“I don’t have to identify as transgender to live without a chest and be shirtless.
“I just want to make decisions that bring me happiness no matter how it looks to others.
“So I had a double mastectomy with nipple grafts done.
“My surgery was covered by insurance, due to medical reasons.
Siarra after surgery. (Jam Press/Siarra Lutton)
“But if I would have paid out of pocket, it would have been $7800.
“As for the reactions I got – think of the worst thing someone can say to you and it’s been said millions of times.
“From telling me I ‘should kill myself’ and ‘the world would be better off if I was dead’, to I’m a ‘mentally ill disgusting human’, to they ‘can’t wait till when I end up in hell’.
“I used to focus heavily on the bad when this happened to me and it really hurt at one point.
“Every man on the internet thinks the only way to be a woman is to have breasts.
“It’s comical because it doesn’t make me any less of a woman by removing them than it would if I made them bigger.”
Siarra, who underwent the major operation in 2023 and hails from Nashville, Tennessee, says her own family and friends have been very supportive.
She said: “My mom took care of me after surgery, and my brothers are very supportive.
“My dad called me after the opeation and said I have ‘better pecs than him now’.
“My grandma looked at me recently and said, ‘When you first said you were removing your boobs I was like why in the hell would she do that?’
“But now she says, ‘You look so damn good and you look more like you honey, I love it’.
“I was over the moon when I looked in the mirror for the first time.
“It felt like coming home to my body.
“I cried and have never felt more grateful to be myself and living in the time and space that made those dreams come true.”
Siarra says the procedure has led to her being far more comfortable and has not hindered her dating life at all.
She said: “I feel 100% more comfortable in my body now and I wouldn’t change a thing.
“I walk outside without a shirt on, go to the beach without a shirt, the pool, have travelled to other countries and been topless.
“I am comfortable with who I am and comfortable making other people uncomfortable by seeing a bare chest on a woman.
“I wouldn’t regret this decision for a day in my life.
“The surgery has not affected my dating life at all.
“My partner met me before I got the surgery and we started dating almost a year after I got it.
“It’s never been a topic of conversation.
“I am so confident in my body now; it has changed me completely as a person.
“I feel so powerful and more like myself every day.”
Although she gets plenty of hate online, Siarra now focuses on the positive messages she gets instead – of which there are far more.
She added: “I was sharing my story online to help others who may be internally struggling like I was.
“I couldn’t wait to talk about it.
“Instead, it went the wrong direction and broke me, but now I don’t give one single hell what anyone says.
“I have thousands of unread messages in my inbox from people thanking me and telling their story.
“It’s okay to make decisions that benefit yourself and it doesn’t have to make sense to anyone else.
“I live with confidence.
“The world will eventually adapt to my decisions.”
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