Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Eden Sassoon and former Playboy model Angie Everhart opened up about their struggles with the mysterious illness they’ve both dealt with after going under the knife for breast implants.

On a recent episode of The Doctors, hosted by Dr. Travis Stork, the pair candidly discussed the myriad problems they’ve had with their implants, which eventually lead them to join the growing numbers of women around the world who have chosen to “explant,” or have their implants removed.

“It’s a women’s issue that needs to be talked about,” said Everhart, as she spoke for the first time about the problem. “I went to 40 different doctors, and I couldn’t figure out why I was feeling bad. I went to an autoimmune specialist, I went to a brain specialist, I went to a cancer specialist, I have seen every specialist in this town to figure out why I feel the way I feel, and it’s never been diagnosed until I started talking to my girlfriends. It was my girlfriends who were saying, ‘Hey, is it because of your breast implants?’”

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“Breast implant illness” is a somewhat controversial term used primarily by patients who report symptoms similar to those of an auto-immune condition (fatigue, pain, hair loss, brain fog) they believe is related to their implants. It is not recognized as a medical diagnosis, but this summer the FDA warned of a type of lymphoma linked to breast implants that led to a recall of a certain type of implants. The statement also made mention of breast implant illness.

“Hopefully with women coming forward, and sending these [removed implants] out for analysis, we will come to a place where breast implant illness is a true medically recognized condition,” said Dr. Kristi Funk, author of Breasts: The Owners Manual. But at the end of the day, implants out, you feel better, who cares why?”

Eden described how she had gotten three sets of breast implants, and with each new pair she ended up in worse pain than the last. In one tearful recollection, she described how the implants once ended up bursting. Meanwhile, Angie noted that she has pain in her body “on a constant basis” during the conversation.

Eden got her first pair of implants around 19, as she described to Glamour, as part of growing pressure to fit in and conform to beauty standards. As the daughter of hair mogul Vidal Sassoon, Eden felt as though she had to mimic a certain “look” to keep up family appearances.

“As a young girl, being a Sassoon, it was like, “you don’t look good, we don’t look good,” she explained on The Doctors. “It was like, “we all look like that, why don’t you look like that”…I realized my boobs are never going to look like that unless I got these,” she said, referring to the two silicone implants she had once carried within her breasts.

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Unfortunately, Eden ended up with “two different ones,” when she first had her surgery. She had two additional replacements, finally removing a pair in 2017, after she had gotten “progressively worse and worse and worse.”

“I had pain in my neck, down the shoulder, through to the finger consistently, I had head fog, I’d visit my chiropractor every day … So I’m like something is not right,” said Eden. When she set out to join the cast of Real Housewives Season 7, she finally realized it could actually be her breast implants contributing to her sickness. Instead of opting for a doctor to officially diagnose any issues, she simply had her doctor remove the implants in early 2017.

Both women feel that by sharing their stories they can raise awareness about this very real issue they feel isn’t being talked about enough.

“We do want to make women aware of the risks, but we don’t want to create hysteria,” said Dr. Stork, before pointing viewers to Doctorstv.com for more detailed information on the recall.