I have been torturing myself with this question every day….
Before you answer this question I feel that I should explain myself.
I am a mum to 2 beautiful school aged children, a boy and a girl. The eldest of which has an Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Like most parents I am concerned with body image issues that are plaguing our children, especially our young girls.
As we get bombarded with these unrealistic images I use them to spark conversations with both my children about what a healthy body and an unhealthy body may look like, how to obtain and maintain a healthy body and how all of this differs from person to person.
I have always had small (‘A’ cup) breasts and it never bothered me. In fact for a while my little boobs and I made a comfortable living as a topless barmaid (long before I started my family), proving that it is not the size that counts!
So why do I want plastic surgery then?
After having children many things about my body changed, which I was prepared for. I have stretch marks, a jelly belly, gone up 2 dress sizes and have started growing hair in strange places (which after puberty I thought I would never have to experience again) and I am fine with all of this.
But the change to my breasts was dramatic, which again I was prepared for (or so I thought). They went from little well placed bowls of jelly, to what I can best describe as turned out pants pockets. They are now somewhere between an A and a B cup, which make finding a correct fitting Bra almost impossible. They are the only thing about my post baby body that makes me cringe when I look at myself naked.
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Personally, I wouldn't have a problem with being a B Cup, I went through 2 breast reductions, I am a DD at present. I can understand how you must feel, it's hard going through body changes following pregnancy, and the tummy and stuff is a different story. But think of all the beautiful bras you an wear, the weight you will never have to carry! I would kill to lose weight and go back to a tiny little B cup again. If there was something wrong with your breasts, for example in my situation is was very damaging to my spine and back, and was causing a lot of other problems, but if there isn't really anything particularly wrong with them other than the fact you wish they were bigger I think you should look at the underlying issue behind this. You need to be able to love yourself as you are, having a set of boobs like a fake porn star or a stripper is not going to change how you feel inside... and when it comes down to it, most guys prefer natural boobs.
K, well done…. you have just summed up exactly what most mothers, who go on to have breast augmentation/lift, feel. They don't necessarily want to be younger; they want to feel like themselves again. They are otherwise confident women. They have the right to choose how they wish to look - choice, that is empowerment. To follow someone else's ideal of beauty - whether it is in a magazine or propagated by women who feel comfortable in not meeting society's definition of beauty, is plain wrong. They live with partners who may care or not care how they look. To say, who cares what society thinks about beauty, that it is ingrained in us so let's forget about it, is too simplistic an argument. Then, don't dye your hair, don't wax/shave, don't even run a comb through your hair, and don't have a shower. Of course we care about how we look - we couldn't get a job without caring about how we look. Breast augmentation is not reserved for fake women - breast augmentations, if performed by a qualified Plastic Surgeon, can look so natural that you would never know but they give a woman satisfaction that she can still pop on a slinky dress and not worry about her nipples facing the floor,feeling older than she really feels. I was anti - breast augmentation once myself. Having met women, mothers like myself and heard them talk about it, I quickly changed my mind. To Anonymous - you have one life honey, live it how you want to - not by the rules of another including the nay sayers. You wake up to yourself each morning, you know what you tell yourself. Go for it, just make sure you see a plastic surgeon not a cosmetic surgeon, cos they are qualified hon.