Nicki Minaj Reveals Why She Decided to Get a Breast Reduction

Nicki Minaj recently opened up about loving her body more than ever, sharing, "Today I can say that I'm at peace with who I am and how I look."

When it comes to Nicki Minaj's appearance, she doesn't need to wish to for another moment 4 life.

The "Super Bass" rapper shared insight into her newfound beauty philosophy and revealed why she decided to go under the knife.

"Recently I had to get a breast reduction," she told Vogue in a cover story published Nov. 9, "and actually I love it. I used to want a bigger butt, and now I look back and realize how silly that was."

And in true Nicki fashion, she offered words of encouragement to her fans who are struggling to accept themselves. "Love your curves, and love your non-curves," the 40-year-old said. "There's nothing wrong with any of it."

While the musician noted that her road to self-love has also been a journey, she's embracing the skin she's in.

"Today I can say that I'm at peace with who I am and how I look," Nicki explained. "I'm not in favor of body positivity if it means unhealthy bodies. That's bull. It's not believable, so let's stop pretending."

As for what inspired Nicki's new mindset? She reveals her 3-year-old son, who she shares with husband Kenneth Petty, has made her want to live a healthier lifestyle.

"I have to say this as a Black woman, though," the "Barbie World" rapper explained. "I've made certain choices for my son, to not give him sweets and candy and juices, because of illnesses like diabetes that run in our community."

And while Nicki has made positive changes to her lifestyle thanks to her baby boy—who she affectionately calls Papa Bear—she previously shared the challenges of being a mom.

"I'm very attached to my son," she exclusively told E! News' Justin Sylvester last October. "I remember being in the U.K. and just bawling. And when I try to FaceTime him, I get more sad."

Nicki also explained how motherhood has impacted her mental health.

"I think moms feel like they have to be perfect," she noted. "I hate that I have more anxiety now because you're like, 'What if the one time I leave my child, I get that phone call?'"

Despite having fear and anxiety, Nicki revealed she would like to expand her family.

"I do want to have more," she said of having more children. "Not at this moment, but I don't want to deprive my son of siblings. Having siblings, it causes you to have problem management skills early on in life. I would feel guilty if I didn't give Papa Bear another sibling or two."

Of course, Nicki isn't the only celebrity to open up about going under the knife. Keep reading to see other stars share their plastic surgery procedures.

The Watch What Happens Live host, who had been open through the years about never getting Botox, revealed in March 2025 that he had embarked on his cosmetic journey and finally got the injectable procedure, which aims to reduce wrinkles.

"I just got it for the first time in my life," he said during the season 11 reunion episode of Married to Medicine. "About a month ago. They gave me a little."

After years of denying cosmetic procedures, the lifestyle expert recently confessed in a February 2024 episode of her eponymous podcast that she gets Botox, fillers and lasers to tighten her skin. "I don't think a lot about age," she explained, "but I don't want to look my age."

The One Tree Hill alum discussed her cosmetic procedures—including Botox and getting breast implants—on her Whine Down podcast in February 2024. During the episode, she confessed the biggest regret she has about her boob job.

“My biggest regret with my boobs is that I don't know if I solely did it for me,” Jana said. “My biggest piece of advice is it has to be 100 percent for you.”

In a Vanity Fair video released September 2024, the Wicked actress shared, "I've had fillers in various places and Botox, but I stopped like, four years ago. And that is the extent."

The Teen Mom 2 alum, a mother of seven, underwent a Brazlian butt lift and tummy tuck in 2016, and another tummy tuck, liposuction and breast reduction surgery in December 2024.

A month later, she spoke candidly about her struggles with her body.

"I pray that my kids never struggle with their body images enough to mutilate their bodies to be skinny," she said on Instagram. "I think a little nip and tuck in terms of a nose job, or like a boob job is OK. But to go through this to be skinny is mental illness, truly. And I say that with the most respect to anyone going through it."

Gypsy underwent a rhinoplasty and septoplasty (nose job) in April 2024, three months after she was released from prison (where she served seven years for her role in the murder of her mother Clauddine "Dee Dee" Blanchard).

The Real Housewives of Dubai star publicly documented her November 2023 face lift and the recovery on social media.

"I wanted people to see how, when you come out, the scars and the cuts and what it really looks like," she exclusively told E! News of the procedure. "I literally looked like I'd been in a car crash and the car had won, but five days later you're presentable. Ten days later I was in a restaurant completely fine."

As for why the Bravo star was so open about her face lift journey? As she noted, "Being on a reality TV show, obviously it's going to look weird if I come back next season looking 10 years younger, which I do, obviously."

The singer has said she has gotten Botox.

The former Bravo star has been candid about her plastic surgery procedures in the past, including getting a nose job, having breast implants and dabbling with Botox and filler. And now, she's turned to CellSound's body sculpting treatment to tighten her stomach.

"I have actual abs," she told People in an interview published March 2024. "I have lines on my stomach that I haven't had since before I got pregnant. I think any mother knows after kids the elasticity of your skin will never be the same."

Responding to an Instagram user who accused the Vanderpump Rules star of getting lip filler, Botox, jawline contouring with liposuction and eyelid surgery, Madix clapped back by confirming all of her past cosmetic procedures. 

“i’ll tell you what i’ve had!” she wrote on Instagram in July 2024. “you’re partially correct. tox in 11’s, outer brow, and my neck. ellevate for my neck in 2019 by @theneckdoctor minimal lip filler bc my face is too small to handle very much and filler in my chin. absolutely no filler anywhere else and def no bleph yet. hope this helps! i’ll keep yall posted if i do anything else.”

"I'm bravely sharing that I had a lower facelift and a couple other minor tweaks," Jill said in a June 2024 Instagram video, with a black bandage wrapped around her head. "I had a fat transplant put into my hands because I hated my hands, and the worst part was the lipo coming out of my leg to fill my hands. Believe it or not, that's the most pain I've had."

The Valley star revealed she underwent facial liposuction before filming the new Bravo series.

"I had work done on my double chin. We call it the turkey gobbler, runs in my family," she said on the March 2024 episode of  her When Reality Hits podcast. "No matter what I was going through, no matter how much weight I lost, I still felt I had something there."

Following her breakup from Stranger Things' David Harbour, the "Smile" singer revealed she got "additions" in the way of a boob job.

"They look really incredible when I take my top off and my bra off," she shared on a March 2025 episode of her Miss Me? podcast. "But there's definitely a contrast in age between my breasts and my face."

The Beverly Hills, 90210 star has spoken publicly about her nose job and her breast implants.

In addition to getting candid on using Ozempic for weight loss, the talk show host admitted that her 2021 facelift was "the worst thing that I ever did," explaining in December 2023, "I looked like Cyclops."

"I've never had any work-work done, but I went through a phase when I was smoking pot when I was really obsessed with getting facial injections," the "Born This Way" singer told radio host Howard Stern in 2013. "I was going to this strip mall in Chicago in the back…Everybody was like, 'You are a nut job.'...I'm telling you, I wasn't exactly in the best frame of mind, and I would smoke a bunch of joints and have some drinks and I would be like, 'Oh, let's go see my girl' and we would drive to this strip mall and I would get shot up with a bunch of whatever, Juvéderm, and then leave."

She continued, "Now all the stuff is gone. Before I shot the 'Applause' video, [a photographer friend] was like, 'Gaga, I love you but if you don't stop injecting s--t in your face I'm going to just kill you.'"

The Real Housewives of New York star got breast implants in 2005, but removed them in 2008.

"Now I feel comfortable," she told Life & Style. "If there's something you're not comfortable with and you can correct it, great."

The Crown star revealed that she's a fan of Botox. "I've had loads," the 50-year-old told BBC Radio 2.

In 2013, The Talk co-host revealed on the show that she got plastic surgery at the beginning of her career in order to make her eyes look bigger.

"And after I had it done, the ball did roll for me," she said. "And I wondered, did I give in to the man?"

She added, "I have to live with every decision that I've made. And it got me to where we are today. And I'm not going to look back."

"I've done it all," the actress told The Telegraph in 2002. "I've had a little plastic surgery. I've had a little lipo. I've had a little Botox. And you know what? None of it works. None of it."

"I had [a deviated septum] fixed–best thing I ever did," the actress told People in 2007. "I slept like a baby for the first time in years. As far as all the other [rumors], as boring as it sounds, it's still mine. All of it. Still mine."

In 2010, the Real Housewives of Atlanta star revealed that she had had a nose job, a breast lift and liposuction.

"I'm very comfortable and confident in myself," she told People. "I just wanted a tune up."

In 2015, the reality star called Dr. Lenny Hochstein her "boob God" doctor for giving her perky breasts. Of course, the reality TV personality has been an open book about her other procedures, including a tummy tuck and lip injections.

The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star had her lips injected with silicone at age 24. In 2010, she had some of the filler removed.

"I find it so interesting that it's become such a big thing because I can't tell you how many girls have done their lips. I feel like I'm a pioneer," she said on Today in 2013. "I was one of the first ones to ever do it and be honest about it."She also said, "I would do it again. I never had a career before I had the lips so my lips have had their own career!"

In 2009, at just 23 years old, the Hills star underwent a head-to-toe transformation, having 10 cosmetic procedures done in one day. In addition to Botox, chin reductions and a nose job, the reality star also got fat injections in her lips.

The Aussie rapper said in the April 2015 issue of Vogue magazine that she got breast implants. "I did change something: Four months ago, I got bigger boobs! I'd thought about it my entire life," she revealed. 

In her 2018 memoir Perfect Is Boring, the supermodel revealed she went under the knife early in her career. "I had bones in my nose that were growing and itching," she wrote in her book. "I could breathe fine, but I added cosmetic surgery. I admit it! Fake hair, and I did my nose." 

"I really, genuinely care about looking good," the SKKN founder told Allure for its August 2022 issue. "I probably care more than 90 percent of the people on this planet. It's not easy when you're a mom and you're exhausted at the end of the day or you're in school, and I'm all of the above. I do my beauty treatments usually late at night. After everyone's in bed, I'm doing laser treatments."

Kim revealed she's also gotten "a little bit of Botox," but hasn't dabbled with filler on her lips or cheeks, revealing, "No filler. Never filled either one, ever."

During an Instagram Stories Q&A on August 2022, the reality TV star didn't shy away from answering a fan's question about her boobs. "Gonna keep it real with y'all," Kristin began her response. "Got a lift after breast feeding all 3 kids."

While The Hills alum isn't opposed to cosmetic procedures, she admitted she's "never done" Botox.

"It's not for me. But I've seen it look amazing on some people," she wrote. "My concern is that we don't know the long term effects of it (and I don't mean 5-10 years, I mean like 20 years) and I think your face is muscle, so we need to work it out the same way we would any other muscle."

In his 2023 memoir If You Would Have Told Me, John opened up about feeling insecure with his appearance, which led him to get two nose jobs. "That nose," he wrote. "It bothers me."

"My nose looks kind of pushed up like Peter Pan or something," he shared of the initial procedure. "So on my next hiatus, I have it redone by Michael Jackson's plastic surgeon."