Raven-Symone Recalls Having Her 1st Breast Reduction at Age 15 Ahead of ‘That’s So Raven’

Raven-Symoné recalled having her first breast reduction at 15 years old.

“I had my first breast reduction at 15,” she revealed on the Thursday, December 5, episode of her “Tea Time with Raven & Miranda” podcast, which she cohosts with wife Miranda Pearman-Maday. “I went from a triple D all the way down to a B.” The now-38-year-old added, “Someone said I needed to do it in order to get a show.”

Raven-Symoné, 38, is perhaps best known for her role as Raven Baxter on the Disney Channel original series That’s So Raven, which she landed when she was 15 years old. “It’s going in my book,” Raven-Symoné continued. “At the same time, I’m like, if you’re gonna take my boobs out, I wanted lipo. I was like, ‘One-for-one, bro. Let’s go.’”

That’s So Raven aired on Disney Channel for four seasons from 2003 to 2007, with Raven-Symoné as the titular character. (She also reprised the role in the spinoff Raven’s Home from 2017 to 2023.)

“I felt like boys watched the show because I had big boobs,” Raven-Symoné said of That’s So Raven on her podcast. “I feel like that was the case. They came for the boobs and stayed for the comedy.”

She added, “There’s this beautiful embracing of the body now that I didn’t get as a young girl.”

Raven-Symoné and guest Michelle Buteau continued to discuss their shared history of breast reduction surgeries including her “anchor scar.” Raven-Symoné explained, “When you have a breast reduction, underneath the areola they make a little incision and they come down straight underneath the boob and, like, filet you from the bottom and it looks like an anchor.”

The That’s So Raven alum added, “Yeah, it’s different, because when you gain weight those boobs come back no matter what. They come right back.”

Raven-Symoné first opened up about her surgeries in an episode of her and wife Pearman-Maday’s podcast in August 2023, where she revealed that she “had two breast reductions and lipo before I turned 18.”

At the time, she noted that there was “paperwork involved” for her to get the procedures because she was still a minor. “My dad suggested strongly that I should get my breasts reduced,” she revealed. “And he was like, ‘So you don’t feel bad, is there anything that you want?’ I was like, ‘Yeah, if I get lipo, will people stop calling me fat?’ And so, I got a twofer.”

Her first surgery came with complications, as the actress suffered a seizure when she awoke from the anesthesia. She also recalled the challenge of going through such a painful recovery at a young age. “I have scars. I still have scar tissue to this day,” she shared. “And I gained weight after and had to, like, go back for a quick little, like, [get] a little bit more out ‘cause [my breasts] were still too big for others’ feelings.”