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Women Who Smoke and Have Breast Reductions or Lifts Are in Danger of Losing Their Nipples: Plastic Surgeon

surgeon says

Dec 6, 2011 5:42 PM CST

Smokers May Lose Their Nipples

At least for those who get breast lifts or reductions

(Newser) - A plastic surgeon wants smokers to know: If you light up within a month of a breast lift, your nipples could literally drop off. That's because smoking can reduce blood flow to some parts of the anatomy. If those body parts don't get blood, they die, writes Anthony...

Male Breast Reductions Swell

Feb 1, 2011 5:54 AM CST

Male Breast Reductions Swell

'Moob' operations up 28% from last year

(Newser) - Male boob jobs is plastic surgery's fastest-growing area for a third year in a row, according to a British surgeons' association. The number of male breast reduction operations is up 28% from last year. The association chief says this is largely because media coverage of "moobs" is making many...

Busty Woman Told She Was 'Too Sensual' for Promotion

Busty Woman Told She Was 'Too Sensual'
to Be Promoted

Nov 12, 2010 4:16 PM CST

Busty Woman Told She Was 'Too Sensual' to Be Promoted

She's suing, with help from Gloria Allred

(Newser) - In a story that echoes that of Citibank's 'too hot' banker , a Florida woman has sued her former employer of 13 years for discriminating against her—because she was too busty. Managers at the Devereux Foundation allegedly told Amy-Erin Blakely that co-workers couldn't concentrate in meetings because they were distracted...

'Boobies'
Cancer
Campaign
Gets It Wrong

opinion

Sep 3, 2010 3:46 PM CDT

'Boobies' Cancer Campaign Gets It Wrong

Message is about breasts instead of people

(Newser) - Some American schools are banning students from wearing rubber bracelets that read "I (heart) boobies"—a slogan for a breast-cancer awareness campaign. They're afraid of that word, which is silly. "But you know what? I'm offended by the bracelets, too—just for a very different reason,"...

More Women Flaunt the A-Cup

Sep 2, 2010 9:55 AM CDT

More Women Flaunt the A-Cup

More and more embracing their smaller assets

(Newser) - When it comes to breasts, bigger isn’t always better . The assumption that A-cup women are constantly looking for push-up bras to enhance their assets is no longer unequivocally true, and a number of boutiques and online stores are now specializing in smaller size—but still sexy—bras. In the...

Thieves Flash Breasts
to Pull ATM Job

Aug 16, 2010 2:08 AM CDT

Thieves Flash Breasts to Pull ATM Job

Female crooks make boob out of customer

(Newser) - A couple of French female desperados flashed their breasts at a customer withdrawing funds from an ATM to distract him while they ripped him off. As his eyes were particularly drawn to one woman's chest, the other grabbed his money and ran (with her shirt down). The heist was captured...

More and More
Girls Hitting
Puberty by
Age 7

More and More Girls Hitting Puberty by Age 7

And the percentages nearly double by age 8

(Newser) - Today's girls are even more likely to enter puberty by age 7 or 8, finds a new study. At age 7, 10.4% of white, 23.4% of black and 14.9% of Hispanic girls had hit puberty, based on their breast development. Those numbers nearly double just a year...

Girls in Cameroon
Have Breasts
'Ironed'

Girls in Cameroon Have Breasts 'Ironed'

Moms believe burns will keep men away

(Newser) - Breast ironing. Yes, it's as painful as it sounds. But, according to a new Current documentary , as many one in four girls in Cameroon have had their breast buds burned with hot stones. Ironically, the painful wounds are meant to protect them; mothers believe the scars will keep men at...

Big Breasts = Big Tips

May 7, 2010 3:41 PM CDT

Big Breasts = Big Tips

(Newser) - Cornell professor Michael Lynn has proven what Heidi Montag just knew, the founders of Hooters proved 27 years ago, and the first upright man discovered 2 million years ago. Waitresses with large breasts get better tips. It also doesn’t hurt to be blonde and slender. Professor Lynn’s colleagues...

AG Covers
Breast on
Va. State Seal

May 4, 2010 5:34 AM CDT

AG Covers Breast on Va. State Seal

Cuccinelli makes Virtue 'more virtuous'

(Newser) - A squeamishly conservative attorney general has slapped chest armor over the goddess of Virtue's breasts on the 234-year-old Virgina state seal . Ken Cuccinelli inserted his own peculiar brand of modesty to cover Virtue's exposed boob when he had pins of the state seal made up for his staff. The modification...

Earth Moved on 'Boobquake' Day...

Apr 27, 2010 8:38 AM CDT

Earth Moved on 'Boobquake' Day...

But no more than usual; take that, Iranian cleric

(Newser) - Boobquake 2010 is officially over, the numbers have been crunched, and it's time to see if Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi was right, writes Jen McCreight on Blag Hag . Before she dishes the nitty-gritty, she clarifies one Boobquake misconception: The point wasn't to see if any earthquakes occurred; dozens happen daily....

Female
Blogger
Calls for
'Boobquake'

Female Blogger Calls for 'Boobquake'

Wear low-cut tops on April 26 and test cleric's theory

(Newser) - Now that an Iranian cleric has surmised that scantily clad women cause earthquakes , Blag Hag blogger Jen McCreight thinks the theory deserves a test. She proposes a "boobquake" tomorrow. She wants all women to show some skin, either with "cleavage-showing" shirts or short shorts. "In the name...

Surgeon Creates
Implant-Free Boob Job

Surgeon Creates Implant-Free Boob Job

New procedure repositions patient's own breast tissue

(Newser) - A British cosmetic surgeon has devised a new kind of boob job that replaces silicon with the woman’s own breast tissue. The procedure simply moves some tissue from underneath the breast above the nipple, tightening the skin below, pulling the breast up, and filling it out, according to Laurence...

Bride Jailed
After Flashing,
Beating Bouncer

Mar 23, 2010 11:44 AM CDT

Bride Jailed After Flashing, Beating Bouncer

To be fair, Welsh woman also hit him in the head with a shoe

(Newser) - A Welsh lesbian wedding party turned saucy, then bloody, and finally litigious when the bride, caught up in a fight with a bar bouncer, bared her breasts, and then struck him in the head with her stiletto heel. No one disputes those facts, but the genesis of the argument is...

For Pirates 4,
No Boob Jobs
Need Apply

sorry, heidi

Mar 21, 2010 3:51 PM CDT

For Pirates 4, No Boob Jobs Need Apply

Casting call for sequel includes ban on implants

(Newser) - Casting is under way for Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, and the requirements are strange indeed: "Must have real breasts. Do not submit if you have implants." In Los Angeles! No cheating, either—besides being required to know how to swim and dive, candidates will have...

Sharon
Osbourne
Wants to Sell
Boobs on eBay

Mar 9, 2010 8:42 AM CST

Sharon Osbourne Wants to Sell Boobs on eBay

Breast implants are too annoying, she says

(Newser) - Sharon Osbourne discusses her children, her marriage, and her new novel with new! magazine, but most importantly, she discusses her boobs. “I wish I’d never had my breasts done the last time,” she says of her cosmetic surgery. “They’ve put these bloody great bags in...

Why Na'vi Have Breasts

Feb 25, 2010 5:12 AM CST

Why Na'vi Have Breasts

Because director James Cameron milks audience lust

(Newser) - OK, they're small, but Na'vi women definitely have them: Breasts. But why? They're extraterrestrials, not mammals, who don't need them to nurse their babies. So why are they there? Simple. "Because this is a movie for human people," director James Cameron explained in an Inside the Actors Studio...

Male Boob Jobs on the Rise

Feb 1, 2010 10:34 AM CST

Male Boob Jobs on the Rise

Plastic surgery's fastest growing area is breast reduction for men

(Newser) - Male breast reduction surgery is the hottest operation in plastic surgery right now, with demand for “man boob” jobs growing faster than that for any other procedure for two years running in the UK. Last year 581 men went under the knife, according to the British Association of Aesthetic...

Real Breasts Bug America

Meghan McCain

Jan 21, 2010 2:27 PM CST

Real Breasts Bug America

Why do we exalt Heidi Montag, then mock girls with genuine assets

(Newser) - Meghan McCain thinks America has a real “double standard for double Ds.” For some reason, when Heidi Montag shows off her newly enhanced breasts, People runs a fawning piece complete with an admiring before-and-after spread. But when Christina Hendricks showed up at the Golden Globes wearing a dress...

Woman Hit by Car—
After Flashing Drivers

Dec 17, 2009 1:11 PM CST

Woman Hit by Car— After Flashing Drivers

Woman fined $200 for drunken escapade that landed her in hospital

(Newser) - An 18-year-old New Zealand woman had to go to the hospital and pay a fine after a drunken dare—flash oncoming traffic—caused one motorist to plow into her. Cherelle Dudfield escaped the accident with minor cuts and bruises, but police were not amused. “This girl put herself at...