| My name is Lisa. I have been married to Danny for 11 years, and we have two boys, who are 7 (almost 8) and 4. I work for a judge here in Arkansas, and Danny is a sheetmetal worker. I have been "blessed" with extremely large breasts almost my whole life. I remember my mother getting a call from my 5th-grade teacher telling her that she needed to get me a bra, because my emerging boobies were starting to be noticed by my little 10-year-old boy classmates. When we went to our local children's store, my mother was shocked to realize that I was already into an "A" cup! I went up a cup size a year after that, until I stopped at a "D" cup in high school. Like most teen-age girls with big ones, I enjoyed, at first, the attention that my "blessings" received from boys. But I grew up in the preppy days, and I soon noticed that I couldn't button the front of my oxford button-downs without a tell-tale gap across my chest, and that sweater vests made me look fat because they pressed my boobs down around my waist. That's when I started to dislike my figure. A 20-pound weight gain in college bumped me up into a DD, and there I stayed until my first pregnancy. The weight I gained from being pregnant moved me up to a DDD - the final frontier of store-bought bras. I decided *not* to breastfeed, mainly because I was afraid they'd get bigger, and I didn't know where I would find bras! After my son was born, I lost all my baby weight immediately, but not my DDD's. I even dieted myself down to 130 pounds (which is thin for me) but I still had these DDD's. I looked like a freak. When I got pregnant with my second child, I went up in band size to a 36, which seemed to work. But afterwards, even though I had lost all my weight, I couldn't go back to my 34DDD bras. I've suffered like that, squeezed into a 36DDD, until I decided to do something about it and get these puppies reduced! |
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| While I've been working on getting my surgery approved, I've also been working on bettering my "situation" until the surgery happens. I've been trying to lose as much weight as I can, and I am wearing - for the first time - a bra that FITS. No overflow, no strap gouging my shoulders, no band riding up the back. Where, you ask, do you get these wonderful bras? You can find out at PlusSizeBras.org! I had measured myself, using the guide on the website, but I couldn't work the formula, so I e-mailed DeeDee (the webmistress) and she figured my *true* size as a 32J!!!!! And, no, US manufacturers don't go up that big. (Who would have thought they even MADE bras that big?) But. . .European manufacturers DO! Of course, I'm a 32GG to them, which sounds a little better than "J," but not much. I've ordered five bras from Bravissimo and Maple Drive, and I love them. The U.K. stores have gorgeous bra/panty sets, too! You can find DeeDee's website on my "Links" page. |
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