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"Bigger boobs and bad dreams": Steve Price's take on vaccine side-effects

<p>Carrie Bickmore has revealed she noticed a subtle change to her breasts after having the Pfizer vaccine.<br /><br /><em>The Project</em> co-host admitted to her fellow panelists Waleed Aly, Peter Hellier and Steve Price on Monday night’s program that she couldn’t help but notice the “lump” on her chest..</p> <blockquote style="background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);" class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-permalink="https://www.instagram.com/p/CPzOiPhn7n9/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" data-instgrm-version="13"> <div style="padding: 16px;"> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: row; align-items: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 50%; flex-grow: 0; height: 40px; margin-right: 14px; width: 40px;"></div> <div style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; flex-grow: 1; justify-content: center;"> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px; width: 100px;"></div> <div style="background-color: #f4f4f4; border-radius: 4px; flex-grow: 0; height: 14px; width: 60px;"></div> </div> </div> <div style="padding: 19% 0;"></div> <div style="display: block; height: 50px; margin: 0 auto 12px; width: 50px;"></div> <div style="padding-top: 8px;"> <div style="color: #3897f0; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 550; line-height: 18px;">View this post on Instagram</div> </div> <p style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><a style="color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;" rel="noopener" href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CPzOiPhn7n9/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading" target="_blank">A post shared by Carrie Bickmore (@bickmorecarrie)</a></p> </div> </blockquote> <p>Reports have revealed a number of women have noticed their boobs had increased in size after receiving the jab.<br /><br />The Australian Department of Health has stated that inflamed lymph nodes are a less common side effect, but like many other women, Bickmore couldn’t help but notice the small bump on her chest.<br /><br />“This is exactly what happened, and I will admit I clicked on the clickbait today because mine didn’t go up a size, but I was thinking when I was in the shower, after I got my Pfizer, I noticed a lump, and I thought, ‘that’s weird, I will keep an eye on that’,” Bickmore said.<br /><br />“I texted a girlfriend who had the jab around the same time as me the next day and asked how she was feeling.<br /><br />“She said, ‘Fine, but my lymph nodes are up under my arms’, and I was like, ‘of course, that’s what it is!’”<br /><br />Price complained his side effects weren’t quite as interesting.<br /><br />“You get bigger boobs and I get bad dreams from the second jab of AstraZeneca,” Price told Bickmore.<br /><br />“That was the side effect I had.”<br /><br />The side effect which has been labelled the “Pfizer boob job”, is temporary according to experts.</p>

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The moment that brought Karl Stefanovic to tears

<p>When Lara Thomas stepped out onto the This Time Next Year stage and pledged that by this time next year, she’d have “amazing boobs”, she had the audience in fits of laughter and left host Karl Stefanovic blushing up a storm. However, when she revealed the heartbreaking reason behind her pledge, Karl was close to tears.</p> <p>Just two weeks before appearing on the show, Lara was diagnosed with stage two breast cancer. “I was just in the shower after I’d been in the pool with the kids and some friends, and I just found it,” she told <a href="http://honey.nine.com.au/2017/08/07/16/37/lara-was-diagnosed-with-breast-cancer-so-she-bought-herself-new-boobs" target="_blank"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">9Honey</span></strong></a>.</p> <p>She wasted no time at all, visiting her doctor the next day and then heading to Sydney Breast Clinic the day after. When the bad news came, Lara’s first thought was, “Oh my God, I’m going to die”.</p> <p>“You think about your kids,” she told Karl. “That’s the hardest part. They know now – well my two-year-old is too young, but my seven-year-old, we haven’t used the ‘c’ word, but that is the hardest part.”</p> <p>One year later, Lara stepped through the second door with a new short crop, a tattoo with the word “stronger”, and the most exciting thing of all. After going through two surgeries and 14 rounds of chemo, Lara finally got what she wanted – new boobs, going from a small B cup to a D.</p> <p>“I didn’t get a tummy tuck, but to make my boobs look more natural, they take the fat from the top of your stomach and from the bottom of mine. It wasn’t a tummy tuck but it was a bit of lipo.”</p> <p>Lara hasn’t quite gotten the all-clear just yet, but the tumour has been cut out and she is still receiving treatment. “You live in fear of it coming back,” she said.</p> <p>Now, all Lara wants is for women in a similar situation to know they’re not alone. “If someone’s watching it and they’re at that same point, I hope that they can look at me and go, ‘Oh my God, I really hope that's me next year.’”</p> <p>“You do come out the other side. So hopefully someone can look at it and get some hope.”</p>

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