A young woman who developed an eating disorder after using weight loss as the way to shrink her large breast– is happier than ever after having a chest reduction.
Maria Clare underwent a breast reduction as her big boobs plagued her life since she hit puberty, and she now couldn’t be happier with her small boobs.
In her early twenties, Maria was training hard as she wanted to become a police officer and lost a dramatic amount of weight.
The weight loss caused her chest to shrink to a DD, and she experienced having smaller breasts as an adult for the first time.
Maria, from Brisbane, Australia, said: “I became obsessed with staying small so that my boobs wouldn’t get big again because I loved the fact that I could wear what I wanted and exercise freely without pain.
“This led to me developing eating disorders, anorexia and orthorexia, because I liked having small breasts so much.
“It motivated me to stay as petite as possible.
“However, after seeking help, my boobs grew back during my recovery, and they grew back even bigger than before.
“They were also so much saggier due to my weight loss and gain.”
Maria explained how her hatred for her chest made her feel uncomfortable in her own body, so she opted for surgery to get them reduced.
She said: “I told my surgeon that I wanted them to be as small as possible, and they’re now a B after having 2.5kg of breast tissue removed.”
She explains how she is a big believer in the fact that we are going to be in our bodies for the rest of our lives so we should do whatever it takes to achieve feeling comfortable within them.
Maria recalls that she felt like puberty hit her overnight when she was around 15 years old and that one day she woke up and her breasts didn’t fit into her BB bras.
Her breasts continued to grow, and by the time she was 20, she was an F.
After deciding that she wanted to join the police force, she started training intensely which caused her to lose weight and her chest to shrink.
She became obsessed with how having a small chest felt and looked, and it motivated her to try and stay as slim as possible.
This resulted in her suffering from anorexia and orthorexia and a serious decline in her health.
Maria ate very restrictively, would starve herself for hours, and became obsessed with only eating what she deemed as ‘healthy’ foods.
She would also cancel plans with people if she didn’t know what or where she would be eating and even went vegan and vegetarian for a while to mask her restrictive eating.
After realising how unhealthy she had become and that she needed to do something about it, she reached out for help with recovery.
During her recovery from the eating disorders, Maria then saw her breasts grow back even larger than what they had previously been which left her devastated and unhappy with her body once again.
Maria’s breasts went from DD-cup to an H cup, and she says that she felt like they caused her to attract lots of unwanted male attention, and made her feel objectified, sexualised and not respected.
She added: “I felt uncomfortable after my boobs had grown back.
“Not only were they attracting unwanted attention where people would look at my chest and not my face when talking to me, but they were also causing me physical pain too.
“I had permanent indentations on my shoulders, a hump on my neck, and awful posture from trying to support the heavy weight that was on my chest.
“I’d also get rashes, and I couldn’t comfortably exercise because it was too painful.
“A friend of mine had a breast reduction and I had seen how amazing her results were.
“Her whole life trajectory changed. “She didn’t have to worry about sizing up two sizes on tops and dresses, she could spontaneously go for runs and was just more comfortable in life.”
Despite being hesitant about plastic surgery, Maria says that she was over the moon to see how small her new breasts were, and that the surgery had totally transformed her life.
She loves the fact she can pick up a bra or item of clothing from the rack in a shop and know that it will fit her, and no longer has to worry about buttons popping off.
Maria said: “I still can’t get over how amazing I feel now.
“I just feel more respected as a person now too.
“I am just getting back into dating, and I find that I am experiencing less harassment about how I look.”
She added: “Before, I felt like my boobs were a huge part of how I was perceived by others.
“I can’t imagine my life with big boobs ever again now.
“I hope that the stigma around plastic and cosmetic surgery continues to improve as more people realise that these procedures aren’t just about aesthetic changes, but also quality of life for patients too.”