{"id":13347,"date":"2024-09-20T09:00:47","date_gmt":"2024-09-20T09:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=13347"},"modified":"2024-09-20T15:23:18","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T15:23:18","slug":"the-power-of-a-smaller-breast-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=13347","title":{"rendered":"The Power of a Smaller Breast"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The women walk into the surgeons\u2019 offices with photos cued up on their phones. Miley Cyrus. Keira Knightley. Bella Hadid. I want my breasts to look like this, they say. They\u2019ve already spent hours on YouTube watching plastic surgeons\u2019 infomercials, on Instagram poring over before-and-afters, and on TikTok, where an army of ordinary women post about their breast reductions. \u201cAsk me,\u201d they say. Whether their nipple sensation has changed. What their boyfriends said. Whether they cared.<\/p>\n

Sometimes a woman walks into her initial consultation with the bralette she hopes to wear. Or she\u2019ll say, \u201cI can\u2019t wait for my braless summer.\u201d Or that she looks forward to shopping for a $15 bikini top at Target, something cute and bright or floral, signaling a life so carefree its wearer might never need fat straps or eye hooks again. Breast reduction patients use words like \u201cfit\u201d and \u201cstrong.\u201d They talk about \u201cyoga boobs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Friends tell friends about their breast reductions. A surgeon named Donald Mowlds, in Newport Beach, Calif., sees a photo on his feed of a group of women at lunch and realizes he\u2019s operated on all of them. Kelly Killeen, a surgeon in Beverly Hills, says one of her patients flashed her breasts to a friend at the makeup counter at Neiman Marcus and the friend walked across the street to make an appointment. Jamie Hanzo, who is 26 and lives in New Orleans, uses the same plastic surgeon as her mother.<\/p>\n

Tiffany Dena Loftin, who is 35 and a labor organizer in Atlanta, was emboldened to undergo breast reduction after scrutinizing the naked breasts of her friend Jamira Burley, 36, over FaceTime: her bandages, her incisions, her bruised nipples. Loftin doesn\u2019t like hospitals. Needles terrify her. But, Burley said, \u201cTiffany, the relief and the joy that I\u2019m feeling is also available to you on the other side of your fear.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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After liposuction, breast augmentation is the most popular cosmetic surgery procedure in the country, with about 300,000 women choosing implants each year. But the growth area in cosmetic breast surgery is in making them smaller. In 2023, more than 76,000 American women had elective breast-reduction surgery, a 64 percent increase since 2019, according to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. (That number doesn\u2019t include gender-affirming top surgeries or breast reconstructions after illness.) The increase is reflected across all age groups, but especially among women under 30, who are enthusiastic consumers<\/a> of plastic surgery in general, including face- and forehead lifts, procedures favored mostly by women their mothers\u2019 age. Girls younger than 19 represent a small but fast-growing part of the market.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Cheyenne Lin, 26, recovering in a Beverly Hills, Calif. hotel room. Before her breast-reduction surgery, she was in pain and hated the way her breasts hung down to her belly. <\/span>Maggie Shannon for The New York Times<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The women walk into the surgeons\u2019 offices with photos cued up on their phones. Miley Cyrus. Keira Knightley. Bella Hadid. I want my breasts to look like this, they say. They\u2019ve already spent hours on YouTube watching plastic surgeons\u2019 infomercials, on Instagram poring over before-and-afters, and on TikTok, where an army of ordinary women post about their breast reductions. \u201cAsk me,\u201d they say. Whether their nipple sensation has changed. What their boyfriends said. Whether they cared.Sometimes a woman walks into her initial consultation with the bralette she hopes to wear. Or she\u2019ll say, \u201cI can\u2019t wait for my braless summer.\u201d Or that she looks forward to shopping for a $15 bikini top at Target, something cute and bright or floral, signaling a life so carefree its wearer might never need fat straps or eye hooks again. Breast reduction patients use words like \u201cfit\u201d and \u201cstrong.\u201d They talk about \u201cyoga boobs.\u201dFriends tell friends about their breast reductions. A surgeon named Donald Mowlds, in Newport Beach, Calif., sees a photo on his feed of a group of women at lunch and realizes he\u2019s operated on all of them. Kelly Killeen, a surgeon in Beverly Hills, says one of her patients flashed her breasts to a friend at the makeup counter at Neiman Marcus and the friend walked across the street to make an appointment. Jamie Hanzo, who is 26 and lives in New Orleans, uses the same plastic surgeon as her mother.Tiffany Dena Loftin, who is 35 and a labor organizer in Atlanta, was emboldened to undergo breast reduction after scrutinizing the naked breasts of her friend Jamira Burley, 36, over FaceTime: her bandages, her incisions, her bruised nipples. Loftin doesn\u2019t like hospitals. Needles terrify her. But, Burley said, \u201cTiffany, the relief and the joy that I\u2019m feeling is also available to you on the other side of your fear.\u201dAfter liposuction, breast augmentation is the most popular cosmetic surgery procedure in the country, with about 300,000 women choosing implants each year. But the growth area in cosmetic breast surgery is in making them smaller. In 2023, more than 76,000 American women had elective breast-reduction surgery, a 64 percent increase since 2019, according to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons. (That number doesn\u2019t include gender-affirming top surgeries or breast reconstructions after illness.) The increase is reflected across all age groups, but especially among women under 30, who are enthusiastic consumers of plastic surgery in general, including face- and forehead lifts, procedures favored mostly by women their mothers\u2019 age. Girls younger than 19 represent a small but fast-growing part of the market.Cheyenne Lin, 26, recovering in a Beverly Hills, Calif. hotel room. Before her breast-reduction surgery, she was in pain and hated the way her breasts hung down to her belly. Maggie Shannon for The New York TimesWe are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. 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