Betsey Johnson: Beautiful Clothes, Beautiful Person Sat, 13 Dec 2008 19:00 EST
Betsey Johnson really does make this world a more beautiful place.. She's the iconic designer with the downtown sense of style. For over 40 years, Betsey Johnson has been rocking the fashion world with her fun, flirty and fabulous clothes. But there's so much more to Betsey than meets the eye. This designing superstar sat down with momlogic to talk about success, secrets and surviving breast cancer. "I had these boobs in saline, for like ten years. I didn't think about them. I never liked them." Until one morning when Betsey woke up and found one was gone. "It deflated over night and that was OK because it was just salt water in my system. So I went to my doctor and decided to have them both out -- the good one looked just like it did when it was put in, the bad one looked like those mushrooms, those shiitake, really bad-looking, brown, shriveled-up mushrooms. I was so glad to have them both out. In the healing process I noticed scar tissue, and then I saw this little bump next to the