February 28, 2008 <!--date ends here-->
Donations fund boob job
Fort McMurray woman raises $8,000 in exchange for photos, videos
By CARY CASTAGNA -- Sun Media
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Karla-Rae Morris raised $8,000 in donations for a procedure to enlarge her breasts. (Supplied photo)
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Karla-Rae Morris is getting an $8,000 boob job for free – and she owes it all to bosom buddies she befriended on a controversial website.
Since the fall of 2005, the petite 26-year-old Fort McMurray mother has been racking up donations on
www.MyFreeImplants.com – a California-based site that allows men to invest in breast augmentation surgery for flat-chested women who otherwise wouldn’t be able to afford it. In exchange for donations, the women chat online with the charitable men and send them photos and videos of themselves.
Morris, a married stay-at-home mom with two young children, reached her goal of $8,000 last month. She joins Strathmore mom Candace Leadley, also 26, as the only known Canadians to reach “Hall-of-Fame” status on the site.
The five-foot-six, 98-pound Morris, who initially took some grief from her husband and two of her sisters for her quest for a treasured chest, plans to undergo surgery this spring to expand from a 32AA to 34C cup.
“I’m going to be really super happy,” she told Sun Media. “I always felt like less of a woman and more like a little girl. It’s going to make me more confident wearing a swimsuit. And I won’t have to buy padded bras anymore.”
Morris, who eventually earned her family’s support, has chosen a Vancouver surgeon and is waiting for the website’s operators to transfer the money so she can book her operation.
The hazel-eyed redhead, who holds the unenviable distinction of taking the longest amount of time – nearly three years – to reach her goal of any woman on the site so far, said her donations ranged from $5 to $500 and came mostly from a handful of men.
She said her two biggest contributors – a “happily married American man with money to spare” and an Australian man, who’s “not bad looking” – each donated more than $1,000 in total.
“I became good friends with them, as good as you can over the Internet,” she explained.
Although she admitted she sent out some “naughty” pics and video – which she regrets to this day – Morris insisted most of the men she encountered seemed to be more interested in making a personal connection and helping her out than just getting some racy images.
“It’s like donating to any charity. You feel like you’re doing good,” Morris said of her benefactors. “When you’re donating to starving kids in Africa, you’re never going to see those kids eat and you’re never going to meet. Obviously, this is not as important as helping starving kids in Africa, but it’s the same basis. They (the men) want to help us out.”
Morris said due to budget constraints, her husband gave her the choice between fixing her teeth and enlarging her breasts a few years ago. She opted for $5,000 braces.
However, shortly after straightening her teeth, they were pushed back out of alignment by her sprouting wisdom teeth.
But her recent success with taking cap in hand to the Internet has given her an idea. “Maybe I’ll set up
www.MyFreeVeneers.com,” she said with a laugh. “I’m only half-joking.”
cary.castagna@sunmedia.ca
