Nicki Minaj Talks Plastic Surgery Regrets: ‘I Didn’t Like Being Skinny, Having a Flat Butt’

*Nicki Minaj appeared on Thursday’s episode of “The Run-Through with Vogue” podcast and admitted regret over having plastic surgery. 

“I guarantee you, if you change anything on your body and do anything surgical and all this, you’re going to — more than likely, not definitely, more than likely — look back one day and say, ‘I was fine just the way I was,’ ” Minaj explained during the broadcast, People reports. 

“And that’s what happened to me,” she said. “I could not believe even some of the photos that I didn’t love.”

The hip-hop superstar admitted during the interview to being painfully insecure about her natural body before the breast and buttock augmentations. 

“I didn’t like the way I looked,” Minaj told podcast hosts Chioma Nnadi and Chloe Malle.

“I didn’t like being skinny, having a flat butt, you know. Having boobs that didn’t sit high enough. It was a lot of things,” she continued. “And when I look back at myself now, I literally was like, ‘Oh, I’m about to look like that girl again.’ ”

Nicki Minaj said she prefers not to look at older photos of herself.

“The reason why I wasn’t able to look back at my old photos was I didn’t like the way I looked, right, physically,” she added. “And now I love the way that person looks physically.”

The married mother said giving birth to her 3-year-old son changed her body-image perception.

“I think pregnancy could’ve played a role because seeing my son did remind me of myself so much. My real self. And it made me think why didn’t I like this? So weird,” Minaj said. “But seeing old photos, being able to look at old photos again made me realize, ‘These old photos are beautiful.’”

In a new Vogue cover story published Nov. 9, Minaj discussed her recent breast reduction story. 

“Recently I had to get a breast reduction,” she told the publication, “and actually I love it. I used to want a bigger butt, and now I look back and realize how silly that was.”

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