Mercede Johnston's Star magazine interview.

Many of you have been asking for my opinion on this article and whether I knew about Bristol's surgery or not. Yes I did know about the second surgery, but not the first.

However I feel I need to clear up some misconceptions about the interview. 

The writing is very small, and the only way to really read it is to save the picture and then blow it up on your computer. 

Because it is so small some have leaped to the conclusion that Bristol had TWO breast surgeries. However that is not what Mercede said. She stated that Bristol had two plastic surgeries that she knows of, and that the most recent one, which I believe was several months ago and before she and Levi got back together, included breast reduction. (BTW I don't believe there is any significance to the fact that Star picked that first photo of Bristol, other than that it shows her with larger breasts than more recent pictures.)

I am not all that comfortable talking about a young woman's breast surgery, but there is one part of Mercede's interview that I found somewhat startling.  Sadie says that in December of 2007, when Bristol was a young girl of only seventeen years of age, she received plastic surgery.

I talked to Mercede about this and she says Levi told her the surgery was for the area beneath Bristol's chin. Now for Bristol to receive that surgery one of her parents would have had to have given their permission.  I doubt that Todd is allowed to give the okay for anything as important as plastic surgery, so I feel comfortable in saying that Sarah would have undoubtedly been the one to sign off on that one.

I find that kind of interesting because it raises few questions.

Palin was the Governor at that time and, as we are now all too aware, VERY concerned with how she was perceived by the public.  So it beggars the question as to WHY she would have allowed Bristol to get surgery?  Even for an individual as chronically shallow as Sarah Palin, why would she have thought it appropriate for her SEVENTEEN year old daughter to have had cosmetic surgery?

Unless, and I am only postulating here, there was more than just some minor facial surgery involved?

Sadie said she and her mother pestered Levi for an answer as to WHY Bristol would not come into the house and open the presents that they had bought for her.  And that he finally broke down and told the chin surgery story. But Sadie did not SEE Bristol at that time so she only has Levi's word about what kind of surgery that Bristol had done.  (I am not calling Levi a liar I am just stating the facts.)

I can tell you without equivocation that the Alaska Native Hospital does NOT do cosmetic surgery, nor does insurance usually cover selective surgery of this kind.  So Sarah and Todd would have had to come up with this money out of pocket.  Why?

That is a very good question.

By the way this is what Bristol looked like less than four months later, the day after Trig Palin was supposedly born.

You have admit, her chin does look nice and slim.  But one has to wonder WHY a relatively slim girl like Bristol would have gained enough weight in her face back in 2007 for her mother to agree to spend hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars to rectify?

Just another piece of the puzzle. Could it be an important piece?  I think it just might be.