Southern Charm's Salley Carson Removes Breast Implants She Got for Her Ex-Fiancé: 'Thought That’s What He Liked'

Mar. 15, 2025

Salley Carson.Photo:Charles Sykes/Bravo via Getty

Charles Sykes/Bravo via Getty

Salley Carsonis opening up about a cosmetic procedure she underwent because she thought her ex-fiancé liked it — but she’s now reversing the procedure.

On the Thursday, Jan. 30, episode ofSouthern Charm, theBacheloralum, 30, revealed in a conversation with fellow series newcomerMolly O’Connell, 37, that she had breast implants put in when she was engaged to her former boyfriend.

“I got them when I was with my ex-fiancé,” Carson tells O’Connell in one scene. “I thought that’s what he liked. I just felt like I did it for the wrong reason.”

In a confessional, theBachelor in Paradisealum said that while her ex (whom she called off an engagement with just weeks before appearing onThe Bachelor) never directly asked her to get the procedure done, she felt that he made her feel insecure.

“It’s not like my ex-fiancé told me, ‘Your boobs aren’t good enough.’ He never did,” she says in an interview. “But the girls that he was giving attention to had bigger breasts and didn’t look like I looked, and it somewhat made me insecure. But now if a guy asked me to get something done or made me feel that way, I would just exit the relationship.”

Salley Carson.Salley Carson/Instagram

Salley Carson/Instagram

During Thursday’s episode, Molly also revealed she had a fat transfer breast augmentation done. According to theCleveland Clinic, cosmetic surgeons use liposuction to remove fat cells from a person’s body and then inject the purified fat cells into the breasts to increase the cup size. This procedure can be less risky than using implants, the clinic adds.

“I got ankle and calf liposuction and then I shoved that into my boobs because I had no boobies,” she jokes in a confessional interview.

“Guys are saying I look great,” she added to Carson.

Carson has previously been candid about her split from her ex-fiancé, both onSouthern Charmand her stints on variousBachelorfranchise shows, includingClayton Echard’s season.

Salley and Andrew on ‘Southern Charm.'.Bravo

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“When I was 22 years old, I got engaged,” Carson recalled on the Jan. 16 episode ofSouthern Charm. “We had the big house and like, he wanted kids, and I thought that I had everything. And then, 25 days before the wedding, I got a DM that he had been cheating on me, so I canceled the wedding and moved to Charleston. And that’s kind of when Single Salley came back full force.”

Carson also previously described her relationship as “really toxic” to PEOPLE, adding that now, “I’m in a completely different place than I was when I was onThe Bachelor."

Southern Charmairs Thursdays at 8 p.m. ET on Bravo.

source: people.com