Celebrities are going braless. But does it make your boobs sag?

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There’s a new trend sweeping celeb-land, and it will cost you nothing to copy. Well, except maybe your modesty…

Going braless. It’s a thing now.

Well, stepping out sans bra isn’t exactly a new concept – Google ‘celebrities going braless’ (maybe not if you’re at work though) and you’ll find plenty of images of Kate Moss and her model pals being papped with their nipples visible under loose singlets and tees. But what is new is that this trend isn’t confined to the B-and-under cups anymore.

Bigger-busted celebrities like Kim Kardashian, Rihanna, Lindsay Lohan, Nicki Minaj and Lara Bingle are ditching the confines of their over-the-shoulder-boulder-holders, and rocking up to red carpets braless. Jennifer Aniston, who’s been no stranger to the no-bra look throughout her career, also said no to a brassier at a Toronto Film Festival premiere earlier this week:

This is a surefire way for them to gain media attention, but it has us thinking: Will going braless actually make our boobs saggy?

Surprisingly, there is a definitive case for ditching your bra. A recent study found they provide no benefits to women – and can actually be harmful over time.

“Medically, physiologically, anatomically, the breast does not benefit from being deprived of gravity,” a professor at the University of Franche-Comté in Besançon told a French news website.

However, there's one finding that's worth noting from the professor who has made studying breasts his job for the past 15 years. Even though the breasts of bra wearers sag an average of 7mm more than non bra-wearers over a year, this only applied to women aged 45 or under. The reason? The study was focused on the breasts of younger women.

Overall, the study found that women who did not use bras benefitted in the long term, developing more muscle tissue to provide natural support. So Jennifer Aniston is on to something.

Does anyone else feel like their whole life has been a lie?

Click through this gallery to see which celebrities have been ditching their bras lately:

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Would you or do you ever go braless?