Summer Walker has never been the type to tiptoe around the truth. The singer has built a reputation on raw, sometimes messy, sometimes startling honesty, and her most recent confession on “The Morning Hustle” radio show was no different.
During the interview, Walker shared that after finishing the Chris Brown tour, she didn’t take a vacation or even a breath. Instead, she headed straight to a surgeon’s office.
“I went and got surgery. I love surgery,” she admitted. “I got my t—s redone for the fourth time and [liposuction] for the second time.”
That wasn’t even the most surprising part. Summer went on to say she had seriously considered getting a rib removed (yes, a rib) before her team stepped in and reminded her about album rollout duties, video shoots, and press.
And while a rib removal may seem extreme, the truth is, cosmetic surgery has become a normalized and heavily marketed part of the beauty landscape, especially online. From BBL culture to preventative fillers, many of these aesthetic practices have become intertwined with our conversations about agency, self-love, and the pressures that come with being in the public eye.
This is far from the first time the “Finally Over It” singer has spoken openly about her procedures. She’s consistently shut down criticism and maintained that her body, her choices, and her self-love aren’t up for public negotiation.
“I LOVE my body with a fiery burning passion,” she wrote back in August when social media users critiqued her BBL results, per Vibe. “Please get over it. I’m not changing or reducing anything. Idk why it would bother you if we’re not intimate & you don’t even know me in real life but please block me if it offends you or keep scrolling. I don’t invest time & energy into people I don’t like, why should you?”
She’s also been candid about her transformation journey. Back in 2021, she posted an old picture and wrote: “I dead can’t believe I was this skinny lmao, Thank god for a** shots.”
Beyond the shocking fun fact that Walker shared, she (intentionally or not) reveals the strange, sometimes dizzying place where beauty culture, personal autonomy, and Black womanhood meet. The rise of cosmetic surgery in pop culture has made certain procedures feel routine, almost casual. However, when Black women alter their bodies, the public response often shifts from curiosity to moral judgment, as if our bodies are communal property subject to cultural scrutiny. Summer’s rib-removal revelation is extreme in the literal sense, yes. But it also raises the question of how much is too much? And is it fair to label something as “too much” in a world where beauty standards shift at the speed of light?
