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Originally Posted by Sweetpea
do you love them? Do you hate them? Would you change them to be bigger or smaller? Do you like to show them off? How often do you take your breasts into account when picking outfits?
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I mostly love my breasts, and have only disliked them occasionally when I am trying on clothes (especially dresses) that fit perfectly everywhere else, EXCEPT my breasts. So then I have to go up to the next size, or even two (this puts me in XL sometimes, just for the damn breasts to fit), and that annoys me because the rest of the outfit ends up looking baggy or not fitting very well. I wish there were clothing manufacturers who specialized in small-waist/bottom, larger-breast styles, because that is what I need. So yes, I have to take my breasts into account when picking almost every outfit... not because I want to show them off (though my husband always appreciates when I do), but because I have to make sure they are going to fit decently and the buttons aren't going to pop off... which has happened before.
The other difficult thing is when I am going to the gym, or going for a run. I have had large breasts ever since I started cross-country/track in high school, and while it has never stopped me from exercising, I am a little bit sad that the skin holding them up has lost so much strength... in other words, they droop more than I thought they would, in my 20s. My mom always told me that it was my fault for running so much, which made me angry with her. My solution these days is to get a small, tight sports bra and basically smash the breasts down as flat as I can, so that they stop moving as much as possible when I'm running. I find that when I buy the bigger sizes, it just gives them more room to bounce, which hurts like a mofo. So I just smush them down as flat as I can.
I would not change them to be bigger or smaller, because I tend to think cosmetic surgery is lame. However, if they ever got so big (after kids) that they became painful for my back, etc... then I might consider it. I was slightly alarmed when I started hormonal birth control 4 years ago and they got even bigger than they had been... that was painful, and I could do without that extra boost, frankly. Big boobs run on my Icelandic side of the family, so I guess I'll just have to deal with them as I go.
I like them best when I am wearing a bikini and they fill out the top very nicely, or a low-cut top that shows just a bit of cleavage. I usually only wear those kind of things when I'm going to be around my husband, because I hate it when creepy people ogle them in public, so I try to avoid that if I'm just going out to run errands, etc. I love it when my husband squeezes them affectionately when I'm wearing those clothes, which often leads to more fun things...
