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While interacting with her fans on Instagram this week, Zonnique Pullins, daughter of Tameka “Tiny” Cottle, opened up about her experience having her eye color changed thanks to BrightOcular implants put in her iris. She traveled to Tunisia to have the procedure done, but three years later, she has reversed it. In a preview of what’s to come this season on TI & Tiny: Friends and Family Hustle, she is seen telling her grandmother that a doctor told her that her vision could be impaired by the implants. We can’t get the full scoop on what motivated her to go back to her original eye color just yet, but in the meantime, Pullins isn’t recommending the procedure to others.
After posting an image of herself with her brown eyes out and bright for the world to see, a follower asked her if the eye color surgery was worth it, because after doing her research, the fan was thinking of traveling to Kenya, of all places, to do it. (Artificial implants were approved in the United States for people with an iris missing or damaged this past summer.) Pullins told the woman that her personal experience wasn’t good, but her mom’s has been positive, so you never know.
After having her procedure in 2015, Pullins raved about it, saying about her eyes she “really loved them. And I think they look pretty.” But earlier this summer, we reported that she had been posting images without the implants, at one point with just one in, at another, none in.
As we previously shared, for the surgery, “a silicone iris implant, pretty much a colored contact, is placed inside the eye through a slit in front of one’s natural iris color. Immediately after having it done, one’s vision is limited, but soon after, a patient is able to see, and does so through their new eye color.”
But as Zonnique proves, if there are complications or you’re just over the implants, the procedure is reversible. As you can see, she looks beautiful either way.
