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[–]JulienMayfair 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

There was a girl in my high school who had a breast reduction operation in the 1980s. She had huge breasts on a small frame, and it was causing her to have back problems.

As for the implants, anyone seen the TV show Botched? That's a scary look inside a world where self-esteem depends on how big your tits are.

[–]Wanderingthehalls 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I've got to say I doubt that. Not your recollection but that the girl genuinely needed a reduction. I think it's highly likely that the vast, vast majority of the girls who get that surgery need a few well fitted bras and maybe some exercises. I'm about the same age as Soleil Moon Frye/Punky Brewster and I remember her getting a reduction which at the time she said was for her back and now says was due to being bullied about them.

I'm also a very small woman with large breasts. And they never caused me back problems. I even had a back injury in my 20s and I can't say my breasts ever impacted it. The difference was I was a late bloomer, so I didn't develop body parts that led me to be looked at sexual when I was still a child. So I have never had a negative mental association with my body.