Flat Girl

The documentary began when Flat Girls Marnie and Holly, then strangers who live less than a mile apart, were diagnosed with breast cancer within months of each other. Both women went into treatment knowing they wanted dual mastectomies with an aesthetic flat closure.

They found the Flattie community online, and discovered there isn’t always a medically clear path to AFC. Women are uninformed, misinformed, and even criminally denied their expressed wish to go flat by the surgeons trusted with their care. It is the norm for a shocking number of women to be advised to have breast implants or this host of flap reconstructions without full disclosure of the health risks and percentage of bad outcomes.

Flat Girl made it our mission to bring flat closure into the national spotlight, and normalize going flat. It is crucial we change the dialogue about reconstruction options from the top down, and challenge the societal attitudes that continue to claim a woman without breasts is not a woman.

The Flattie community pioneers and Ambadassaders give women the space to learn about AFC, create a support family, and spread the word that flat is empowering and beautiful. (Pro tip: Boobie Crowns add extra oomph.)