According to the Daily Mail, it’s a growing trend in British plastic surgery: women getting breast augmentation because one of their friends did it. The British news outlet tells the story of four friends who got breast augmentation after another friend. According to a plastic surgeon cited in the article, it’s a growing trend. It’s hard to say whether it’s also a trend in the US, but…

Salma Hayek has been included in dozens of lists cataloging the “best breasts” in Hollywood or the world. The world-famous actress is known for her breasts almost as much as she is known for her movie roles, but she reveals that she was not always quite so curvaceous. Recently on British talk show The Graham Norton Show, Hayek revealed that when she was a teenager,…

It is a campaign women have been waging for years: the women used in advertising should have more realistic proportions to avoid creating unrealistic expectations, and driving the popularity of plastic surgery procedures like breast augmentation. Research has shown that women often experience decreased self-confidence and a poorer body image when they see models that are likely photoshopped to look unrealistically thin, with unrealistically large…

Recently, there has been significant attention given to weight gain advertisements found in magazines from the 30s, 40s, 50s, and 60s. The advertisements, for products with names like “Wate-On,” “Kelp-A-Malt,” and “Ironized Yeast,” seem strange to readers in a day and age when women are under so much pressure to lose weight. However, if you look a little closer at the advertisements, it quickly becomes…

My last blog was about a recent study that analyzed the way men and women looked at a picture of a cleavagey brunette. There are a number of more scientific studies that consider the role of breast size in attractiveness. But what is the practical effect of larger breasts? A number of scientific studies have looked at the role larger breasts play in a number…

In recent months, a couple of stars have come forward to talk about the pressures they were put under early in their career to have breast surgery. They were told they would never make it unless they had surgery, but after years of persistence and hard-work, they have both made the A-list (or at least the B+ list) without surgery. When she was starting out,…

Although you may be tempted to put this in the category of “I could have told you that,” market researchers from around the world showed an image of a cleavagey brunette and used eye tracking software to determine where men and women fixated on the image. The results are more interesting than a bare summary of the findings would suggest. Researchers from 7 different countries…

Dita Von Teese is the world’s most famous burlesque performer. The former girlfriend of shock-rocker Marilyn Manson readily admits to being a stripper, and is unashamed. In fact, she finds the act empowering, “Dressing in elaborate clothes and doing my hair and make-up in a different way enables me to express myself. I am never shy when I get up on stage and I’m under…

How do you pick the best Halloween costume? The most satisfying and appropriate costumes for you are those that help you rediscover and redefine yourself. If you have had breast augmentation, the chances are it is because you consider your breasts to be an important part of your personal identity, and why not celebrate that on Halloween? However, this does not mean that you should go…

In research presented last weekend at the American Society of Plastic Surgery’s annual meeting in Denver, Colorado, researchers presented evidence supporting the hypothesis that knowledge was the biggest barrier to breastfeeding success after breast augmentation. The study found that if women believed the plastic surgery myth that breastfeeding would negatively affect the appearance of their breasts, they were much less likely to succeed at breastfeeding. Of women who were…