36HH Bra Size and Only 15 Years Old
Author Eileen Nicol of Seattle Woman Magazine published a fascinating article about two young girls and their struggles with large breasts. The article is titled “Too Much of a Good Thing” and was published October of 2006.
Kelly Boganwright
“I didn’t feel comfortable with what I looked like and I think that probably showed in my performance. ”
The first girl, Kelly Boganwright felt that her breasts were too large for her 5-foot-1-inch frame. She was a size 36-DDD and felt uncomfortable around people ever since the seventh grade. I feel like I looked a lot heavier than what I was she said to Eileen Nicol.
Lauren Tyner
The second girl, Lauren Tyner was only 15 when, with her parents’ help, she decided to have breast reduction surgery. She played soccer and rode horses despite the disability of having a bra size of 36-HH.
“I came home crying a couple of times and it was just getting ridiculous to shop.”
After a frustrating day of trying on sports bras at a local store, Lauren’s mother Wendy mentioned breast reduction surgery to her daughter. During winter break of her freshman year at high school, Lauren’s surgeon removed two pounds from each breast. Lauren’s wardrobe has expanded beyond baggy sweatshirts. Lauren finds it easier to train for track and soccer and best of all, she finds plenty of pretty D cup bras to choose from at Victoria’s Secret.
“I call this my big hug operation,” says Dr. Phil Haeck, a plastic surgeon who has practiced in Seattle and Bellevue for more than 20 years. “Because women with large breasts give these little side hugs; they never bear-hug anybody. Afterwards when I walk in the room they give me these huge bear hugs because they can do it finally!”
While Hiddenfeet enjoys helping young girls live with large breasts, there are times when surgery is really the only option for someone like Lauren Tyner. Remember that her size of 36HH is being measured in American bra sizes. This would be the equivalent of 36I in the UK. Thats a lot of weight and size to deal with.
SeattleWoman published another article early this year called When Puberty Starts Early. In the never ending quest to answer the question “Why are younger girls developing breasts?” a recent study shows that Leptin, a hormone secreted from fat cells, is required to initiate puberty. Many doctors now believe that it is a signal that tells the brain the body is large enough and there is enough food – so its time to reproduce. Reproductive glands kick start breast growth as a result.
Update: We will be posting an exclusive interview with brave Laruen Tyner soon. She has contacted us (sending in the required – “I have hiddenfeet” picture) and her emails have answered many of these questions that everyone keeps asking.
All the girls who work on Hiddenfeet.com are very happy to have Lauren helping us share her knowledge with so many of our young readers.
Look for her interview on the front page of hiddenfeet.com soon.
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My name is Molly Bocek, and I have been reading the stories and posts here for a little while now, and it is SO nice to hear all these wonderfull people say such welcoming things about girls, like me, who have breasts that are just too big. DDD breasts at just 5′, or HH breasts at only 15 years old. It really does make life just that much easier when girls like us have been living with shallow, ignorant, down right gross people.
Now, I say girls like us because I am a woman, 22 years old, and I have overly-large boobs too. Just like Kelly and Lauren, I started developing too early. At around age seven, the beginning of 1st grade. No one in my family knew that I had a problem, just thought I was developing early. It was never thought twice about. Untill I was in third grade, and was already up to a DD breast and just gettin bigger. When my Mom took me to a doctor to find out if I had a problem, she just told us that I was developing normaly for me. My Mom was a naturaly very busty woman, with an F cup, so my doctor just figured I was on my natural course. Told us not to worry, and it would slow down in time.
Fourth, fifth, sixth grade all passed, and I just kept on getting bigger. I had passed my Mom in size around the middle of 5th grade. Beginning of my 6th grade year was interesting. I had three seperate growth-spurts all about a month apart. When the first one hit, I grew from a FF cup to a G. That one took a little over a week. The second one, I went to an H cup in about a week and a half. The third spurt was the largest. It took me one week to reach an II cup ( that’s an i ). Those three months were the most painfull points of my elementery school history.
When Middle School started for me, that’s when the harrassment came. Unlike all you wonderfull people, I was constantly surrounded by people that would put me down about my size. It was also this time that my Mom and I returned to the Doctor to get a better explination for all of this. We had a different doctor, a more experianced one, that had diagnosed me with extreme Virginal Breast Hypertrophy. I was told this would follow me for my life, But was treatable. It required many surgeries, and lots of money. My mother wanted me to do it, but being strong with my faith, I figured God made me this way for a reason. So I denied the surgery.
I graduated Middle School with my pair of L cup breasts. I graduated at 14 years old, and was only 4′10″. The teasing only got worse in High School, as my breasts got bigger. I averaged two whole cup sizes per year. Freshman year I was an MM cup, sophomore year I was an N, junior year, O cup, senior year, P cup. I graduated at 18 years old like the rest of my class. But I was still rather short, comparitivly. I was only 5′5″.
I moved out when I graduated, and went to CCC, Centralia Community Collage, in Centraila Wa. I did my two years there, and becane a dental assistant at 20.
That was two years ago now. I’m happily married to a man that sees right through my breasts, which are now at a VV cup. But my Hubby, Jaxon, makes me feel good about my breasts. He was the first man I ever got close to, and the last!
Growing up, I wasn’t lucky to be surrounded by people like you; Instead, I was around people that abused me and put me down. But if any young girls are reading this, please listen. Just because you have karger breasts, that will never make you ugly. Everything about you is a gift from God, and should be treated as such. Someday, you all will find a person that loves you for you. Whether that’s a husband, or just some really good friends. My point is that as people grow up, they will mature and see things in a different light. Learn to love your body, it’s yours, no one else’s. Don’t let wnyone tell you what you should look like. Ever
*Molly*
well congrats on finding a man that sees through your breasts I am sure that you have a brilliant mind and an awesome personality
Isn’t it a problem to have DD breast at nine? I’m no expert; didn’t Molly’s mom suspect something the first time they went to the doctor? DD cup size at nine!!? Can someone please tell me it’s always a problem to have such big breast that young.
Everyone develops different. I don’t think its a ‘problem’ that a girl at 9 is a DD, i think the problem comes from her being different than her peers. As such, she gets picked on, teased, harassed, and generally made to feel badly about herself for being different. Its a downright shame. We are supposed to be an accepting country, THE melting pot of the world, where everyone is welcome regardless of age, nationality, etc, and just cuz you have big boobs, (or lack thereof i would imagine) you get treated like an outcast. This country really makes me sick sometimes.
The US is not the only country with this type of problem Tony. Even Canada shows signs of big breast discrimination. I knew girls growing up who were never given the time of day by teachers during school because they developed large breasts. And when teachers grade on a curve (no pun intended) it doesn’t always turn out well for busty young girls.
Well I have 36HH breasts and I can’t afford a breast reduction. I am 5′3. It’s ridiculous. I’m 15 too!
hang in there you found an awesome community for hiddenfeet no pun intended hopefully your done growing and if not embrace your beauty I wish people would take into consideration on other people’s feelings stay strong