MSNBC posted this article about a recent BabyTalk magazine cover.

“I was SHOCKED to see a giant breast on the cover of your magazine,” one person wrote. “I immediately turned the magazine face down,” wrote another. “Gross,” said a third.

It seems as if these readers weren’t complaining about a sexually explicit cover, but rather one of a baby nursing. Nursing on the cover of a parenting magazine. Is this yet another sign that Americans are squeamish over the sight of large breasts? Read More »

Here is an older Telegraph.co.uk article called A Weight off my Shoulders that outlines the struggles of women with abnormally large breasts.

The article explains the troublesome lifestyle of Stacey, a 26-year-old from New Zealand who stars in a documentary called Private Lives: Top Heavy. The documentary airs on the Discovery Health Channel. Stacey claims that men have tried to grab her, to bury their heads in her bosom, and even pretended to breastfeed from her. “It’s really humiliating,” she says. Read More »

Almost a year ago to this day, Sara Churchill and her staff at Hiddenfeet embarked on a small quest to learn more about how modern people perceive large breasted women. 500 men and 500 women were asked to view a large color picture with three different women. Each woman was fully clothed and of ample chest size with the first being 16 years old, the second 28 years old, and the third 45 years old.

The survey participants were asked to speak out loud the “First thing that comes to mind when viewing the three women” - without stating the obvious, that the women were large chested.

All survey participants live in the greater Pacific Northwest area which does impact the results. A revised survey with additional geographic areas is planned for late 2008. Read More »

By the time they reach 18, girls in the United States of America show twice the depression rate of boys, possibly because they worry more, according to a survey conducted by psychologist Megan Gorial, PhD, from Yale University.

It is now well documented that before the age of 11, girls and boys have equal rates of depressive symptoms and depressive disorders. Between ages 11 and 15, however, girls’ depression rates rise steeply while those for boys increase only slightly. Read More »