Big Breasts Anyone?
Anyone remember who Brandy Chastain is? She is the soccer player who, after scoring the winning goal, slid across the grass field pulling off her top and sat there in her sports bra. Flat chested.
In sports, men don’t seem to mind their heroines being small and normal. In the Olympics, there are women competing in gymnastics, diving, track, volleyball - all without implants. And they still manage to look sexy.
So why is it that society has forgotten what normal breasts look like and many of the magazines catering to men emphasize the large breasts? Not just Playboy, but Road &Amp, Track, Car &Amp, Drive and others always have ads with women whose breasts are obviously fake (you can’t put big implants into an anorexic model and look normal).
The sad thing is that people start to believe this is what normal is. Barbie in the 1960s had small breasts and wide hips. Barbie now has a much bigger bust line and hips. Dare we say implants and liposuction in the same breath? If you ever get the chance to look at a Playboy magazine from the 60’s, models, who barely showed the areola, had natural endowment. By the way they had big hips too! Do we really have to accept that, as time passes, artificial breasts go with artificial erections from Viagra?
Edward P. Melmed, MD
Welcome to the blog, Dr. Melmed!
Take a look at Terry’s story on the Breast Intentions information site. She was beautiful and naturally endowed, but not enough for Penthouse. They paid for her implants before putting her in the magazine. Big breasts sells magazines, and media is responsible for perpetuating the Barbie doll figure. Why else would Sports Illustrated publish its annual swimsuit issue? It’s the issue most likely to be picked up by nonsports fans.
Comment by Beauty and the Breast — August 16, 2007 @ 11:14 am
Hi Dr. Melmed.
Thanks so much for your insightful post. Yeah!!! A man is here with a real man’s opinion!!! Your points are so true and make me wonder…where have we gone to as a society? What is beauty to us? Plastic, fake, unbalanced bodies with ridges? We have such a horible timeline if you look at it ht eway you pointed out. A woman’s real curves and body are shunned by this mindset.
I wish we could all look at the classic pieces of art to see real wokenand beautiful real bodies. The Three Graces has been a favorite of mine since I was a teen. I wished it was ok to be them. They have beautiful bellies, dmal breasts, strong legs, and nice bottoms.
Thanks again,
Mary
Comment by Mary — August 16, 2007 @ 1:13 pm
I’m so glad you talked about what our daughters will think “normal” is, Dr.Melmed. There is no magic airbrush that will minimize an encapsulation on a Victoria’s Secret model or a Playboy Bunny. All anybody sees is BIG! They don’t equate BIG with problems. And it will take a lot of energy to get our daughters to understand that real is right and wonderful and BIG has nothing to do with it. Dad’s will have to do a lot of explaining too, so thanks for giving them some food for thought. Hope you’ll send us more comments because you are such a straight shooter.
Comment by Sybil — August 16, 2007 @ 1:24 pm
Has anyone noticed that implanted women all look exactly the same? Identical breasts, same shape and size. They project out in an unnatural way to a one. How can that be pretty?
I had implants for 25 years, and now have gone back to the “real me”, plus a couple of scars. I like me so much better now. My husband thinks I’m sexier, too. I’m comfortable in my own skin. Implants are hard, cold and heavy.
The only thing having implants did for me was to allow me to fill out swimsuit tops. At the end, they impacted my health, probably due to my body trying to get rid of them for so long, but I feel good again now.
Comment by Kate — August 20, 2007 @ 1:18 pm
Thank you Dr. Melmed for continually speaking out during a time of insanity. I long for the day when our daughters’ bodies will be good enough as they are. Look at that picture of Brandy-she is lean, muscled and healthy looking. She is a winner. I admire that so much more than a woman with big fake boobs. Hey, i had them for 17 years but now they’re gone. All a breast augmentation does is announce to the world “hey, look at me, I’m really insecure”. I wish i knew then what i know now. It’s too bad it took getting sick to get them out of my body. Thank you Dr. M.
Comment by shelley — August 20, 2007 @ 7:50 pm
I appreciate the response from readers. I can’t be a very good plastic surgeon as I am at odds with almost all my colleagues who continue to push this procedure at an alarming rate and bigger and bigger sizes. I, however, don’t like anything fake. It’s hard to fight a media that is obsessed with volume instead of quality. But what is more frightening is to think that this is the message we give our daughters - that you are’nt worth anything unless you have big boobs
Dr Melmed
Comment by EMelmed — August 21, 2007 @ 12:42 pm
Hi guys i’m MCS and i’m a lady with big natural breasts. People come to me all the time and say were did you get it done how much did it cost and i say “why don’t you like people with A and B cup breasts. I’m a 42JJJ. I wanted to get them reduced but my family all has large breasts and i realised. I like my breasts. Why don’t people like theirs and why do woman want bigger ones. If they new the burden of having big breasts the trouble of having kids they wouldn’t want them. Why can’t me accept that A and B’s are as good as DD and FFF.
From MCS (42JJJ 100%)
Comment by MCS — January 20, 2008 @ 8:07 am