Jackass star Steve-O has shared on why he changed his mind on getting breast implants, which he first announced in July was part of a series of planned pranks.In an interview with Consequence, Steve-O reveals that the planned surgery faced setbacks: “I got within 10 hours of being in surgery for that,” he says.“The surgery was supposed to happen at eight in the morning.
And 10 pm the night before, I got a call that the anesthesiologist backed out of it, because he found out that it was me doing it as a stunt.”“And that kind of set off a chain reaction where the doctor didn’t want to be associated with it anymore, and they were having trouble finding another surgery center to to make it happen.”However, at the time, Steve-O was still determined to see through the ambitious and controversial stunt.
It was a conversation he had with a transgender grocery worker that caused him to rethink it.“On the day that the scheduled surgery was supposed to happen, I was checking out at the supermarket,” he tells Consequence. “And the person ringing up my groceries was evidently transgender, and it struck me as a sign from the universe.
So I asked the transgender person if I could run something by them, and I had a conversation with this person that had a profound impact on me.”“I knew what my motivation was, I knew what my intention was, and it wasn’t to be hurtful to anybody.
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