Danica Patrick is feeling «amazing» after having her breast implants removed. One week after the 40-year-old former race car driver took to Instagram to reveal her decision to remove her implants, she appeared on to discuss her reason for getting them in the first place and share why she's being open about having an explant now.In her initial Instagram post, Patrick revealed that she got her implants in November 2014 when she was 32.«I did it 'cause I wanted to be more perfect.
What's perfect, right? I wanted the whole package. I wanted to have it all,» Patrick explained on. «I felt like I was very fit and I thought, 'Well, but I just don't have boobs.' It's, like, what's having it all?
What is that?»In 2018, though, Patrick began experiencing some concerning health issues. «I noticed that my hair was not as healthy and was breaking off.
I also gained a few pounds and had no luck losing,» she wrote on Instagram.Two years later, Patrick wrote, «the wheels came off» entirely.«I had cycle irregularity, gained more weight, my hair wasn’t looking healthy at all and my face was a different shape (weird I know),» she wrote, adding that she experienced symptoms including «weird perspiration,» dry scalp, and dizziness, and was tested for such things as hypothyroidism, severe leaky gut and low estrogen in an effort to figure out the cause of her symptoms.A post shared by Danica Patrick (@danicapatrick)Eventually, Patrick came to believe that she was suffering from breast implant illness.«It's usually that their bodies have this kind of chronic inflammatory response to this thing, this implant, so your body's fighting something just like if it had an infection,» Patrick's doctor, Dr.