Paulina Porizkova shows off her scars from hip replacement surgery in a bathroom selfie
Even though she normally «embraces» her scars, the model admitted that she was nervous about the marks that her hip replacement surgery would leave behind.
Paulina Porizkova gave fans a glimpse at the surgery scars after getting her hip replaced in an Instagram post on Thursday, February 1. As she snapped a mirror selfie in her bathroom, the model sported a bikini bottom, as she wore an open bathrobe to show off the scars.
As she marked one-week post-op, Paulina, 58, spoke about how she had been concerned about the marks that would be left behind ahead of the surgery and spoke about her thoughts on the new scars. “The ones I have, I embrace,” she wrote. “But I have no desire to make new ones.”
Ahead of the surgery, Paulina had taken a tropical vacation to say “goodbye” to her old hips, and she admitted that the scars she’d get were on her mind as she prepared for the procedure.
“On our vacation, I kept saying goodbye to the smooth skin across my hip bones, even as I felt guilty for being vain,” she wrote. She also explained that she did factor in how doctors performed incisions when deciding who would do the surgery.
She mentioned that the specialist also referred her to a plastic surgeon friend to close the scars after surgery.Paulina revealed that her doctor had warned her that looking at the scars three days after the incision would look “gnarly,”
but she admitted that she felt like they were “interesting” when she finally saw them. “I studied the placement of the incisions, the way the stitches were made and admired the handiwork of two skilled doctors. It’s like they belonged to someone else,” she wrote. “I know the incisions will soon become a part of me.”
