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Readers Respond: Why Women Choose Breast Reduction

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Updated April 02, 2010

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Why are you considering breast reduction surgery? Do large breasts make you feel self-conscious, or make it hard to find clothes? Do you feel like your breasts attract too much of the wrong kind of attention? Do you think people would take you more seriously in your career if you had smaller breasts? Do your heavy breasts cause you back and neck pain? Do your bra straps leave deep grooves in your shoulders? Do you feel your large breasts make you look heavier than you are? Read other women's stories, and share your reasons for wanting a breast reduction.

I Can't Take The Stares

To be honest, I don't really have much back pain or anything like that. I just hate that I can't wear anything even a little bit sexy without being mercilessly ogled. Even women stare at me. It's like I've done something wrong. I didn't ask for these gargantuan breasts, but unless I go out of my way to dress frumpy and cover them all the way up, I feel like I'm thought of as a "loose woman". Any small-chested girl can wear cute little tops and be thought of as sexy, but put a woman like me in the same top, and we're labeled as "trashy" or "slutty". I'm tired of feeling self-conscious everywhere I go.
—Guest Sally M.

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