Denise Richards Reveals She 'Ruptured' Both Breast Implants While FilmingSpecial ForcesSeason 3

Mar. 15, 2025

Denise Richards at the FOX Winter Press Day on November 18, 2024 in Los Angeles, California.Photo:JC Olivera/Variety via Getty

JC Olivera/Variety via Getty

Denise Richardsmade some serious sacrifices to survive onSpecial Forces.

The actress, 53, competed onseason 3 ofSpecial Forces: World’s Toughest Test, which premieres Jan. 8, and she’s revealing just how far she was willing to go in order to last on the Fox competition series.

“I jumped off a bridge, too — and that’s when I ruptured my [breast] implants — off of that thing,” Richards said during a joint interview with her husbandAaron Phyperson SiriusXM’sJeff Lewis Live.

She said that the “harness” she was wearing for the jump was to blame for the rupture, which affected “both” of her breast implants, which she has yet to fix.

“I still have to get them redone,” she admitted. “I was supposed to a month ago but couldn’t because we were filming, so yeah, no, I still have to get them redone.”

Richards also said that her insurance won’t be fitting the bill for the operation and it will fall on her. “I have to pay,” she said. “I think we pretty much signed our life away doing that show… It’s dangerous.”

“Maybe we can work that in after the fact,” Phypers then said at the suggestion that the Fox series pay for the operation.

Denise Richards on ‘Special Forces’ season 3.Pete Dadds / FOX

Pete Dadds / FOX

Richards will compete on season 3 of the series alongside stars includingTrista Sutter,Stephen Baldwin,Brody Jenner,Christy Carlson RomanoandCam Newton. The survival series sees the celebrity recruits train in Wales, the home of British Special Forces Selection, and this season, they must endure the harsh reality of ocean warfare.

Among the challenges the group of 16 stars will face include: a high pressure hostage rescue, a treacherous ladder crossing between steep cliffs nearly 100-feet above the sea, a boat dunk drill where they will be submerged into the frigid ocean and a surf immersion where they will have to control their panic in an exercise that takes them to the brink of drowning, per a press release.

In an interview with PEOPLE, the mother of three admitted that her daughtersSami, 20, Lola, 19, and Eloise, 13were “very upset” when they learned she’d joined the dangerous show.

“Theydid not want me to do it. They were afraid I was going to get hurt or get killed, and they were actually really angry,” she said. “It was the first time of all the times I’ve done different projects or traveled they were very upset with me.”

Richards chose to persevere, though, despite her daughters' hesitance — and the fact that she’s, in her own words, “not athletic at all.”

“I thought, ‘This is the most challenging thing I’ll ever do, and why not do it?' I was terrified, but once I made the commitment to do it, I was there,” she said.

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Special Forces: World’s Toughest Testseason 3 premieres with a two-hour episode on Wednesday, Jan. 8 at 8 p.m. ET on Fox.

source: people.com