When it comes to body image, Eva Amurri doesn’t use social media as a mirror.
The digital content creator and daughter of Susan Sarandon took to her Instagram stories on April 28 to clarify the reasoning behind her recent breast reduction surgery. Amurri, 40, previously revealed she was undergoing the cosmetic procedure in an April 2 blog post on her website Happily Eva After.
The health revelation comes nearly a year after Amurri drew social media backlash for sharing photos of her wedding dress following her nuptials with chef Ian Hock. The June 2024 post, which featured Amurri’s strapless gown on full display, led many users to criticize how the dress accentuated Amurri’s chest.
Responding to media speculation that her breast reduction was in response to the online controversy, Amurri wrote on Instagram that “these two things are not related.”
“I’d been saving for a breast reduction for about five years and had been going to reduction consultations starting about 9 months before my wedding,” Amurri explained. “This is something I’d been thinking about for 20 years lol.”
According to Mayo Clinic, breast reduction surgery (aka reduction mammaplasty) is a procedure that involves the removal of “fat, breast tissue and skin from the breasts.” For individuals with large breasts, the surgery can help “ease discomfort and improve appearance.”
Amurri added that she “would never do anything because of the influence of bullies.”
“I love how I looked on my wedding day, and I loved my dress,” Amurri continued. “If I had worn a turtleneck gown, some people would have also hated it. The truth is that some people are just hateful. Sad!”
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At the time of the fashion controversy, Amurri fired back at her detractors with a cheeky response. In a since-deleted post on her Instagram stories, Amurri shared a pair of photos of her and Hock posing in their wedding attire. The second photo offered a close-up of Amurri’s cleavage area.
“And to anyone scandalized by my breasts not being ‘put away’ ….,” Amurri wrote, according to screenshots from People magazine and Entertainment Tonight. “Feel free to screenshot this for later.”
In a follow-up video on her April 28 Instagram story, Amurri reflected why news of her breast reduction may be difficult for some to reconcile with her body-positive stance.
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“People have a really hard time accepting the fact that you can have something about yourself that you are interested in changing, whether that’s breast reduction, a nose job, Botox,” Amurri said, “and love yourself in the moment the way that you are.”
She concluded: “Embracing ourselves means embracing ourselves in the moment and loving ourselves where we are, and it’s OK to want something else for yourself. To put ourselves in these boxes of loving yourself means you have to love and be exactly where you are in that moment forever is just so limiting.”
This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Eva Amurri, Susan Sarandon’s daughter, clarifies breast surgery
