Not everyone who gets breast implants goes strutting downa redcarpet to show them off. But some women can be just as obvious.
Men’s Health magazine recently put together a list of5 ways to tell if breasts are fake. We figured we could get a few experts to make that a dozen ways.
So, thinking of getting … excessive? Caveat emptor, ladies!
Here’s a summaryof the magazine’s list, along withinput we got from some Orange County plastic surgeons.
The first 5 are from Men’s Health.
1.Too close
Most women’s breasts have 2 or3 inches of spacein the middle, but implantsnarrow the gap.“If it looks like her breasts are touching in the middle, they’re likely fake.”
2. Too high
If they’re set too high onthe chest, instead of around where the armpits are, they’re probably implants.It’s supposed to be easier to spot in a bathing suit, so it’s not the result ofa push-up bra.
3.Cantaloupesvs. pears
Real breasts are shaped more like pears — fuller at the bottom —than like melons. Many implants have an even distribution of silicon.
4.Scars
There are typically four places that plastic surgeons use for access. Scars can beseen above the belly button, under the breasts, around the nipples or the armpits. More details on thatin the magazine.
5. Sloshing
Women with saline implants will sometimes makea sloshing sound when moving. Men’s Health says if the implant wasn’t completely filled, it creates an air pocket. Thankfully, this isn’tnoisyenough to hear in public.More on that below …
6. “Matterhorns”
If a woman is lying on her back in a bathing suit and the breasts are vertical and upright “like little Matterhorns,” they’re implants, says Dr. Val Lambros, a plastic surgeon in Newport Beach. “A pretty common appearance of augmented breasts are those that do not settle to the sides when a woman is lying on her back on the beach,” Newport Beach plastic surgeon Dr. Milind Ambe agrees.
7. Jumping
In some women with submuscular augmentation, the implant will quickly shift if she flexes her pecs, Lambros says. “So ifthe breast jumps when she hits a tennis ball or lifts some weights, there’s an implant in there.”
8.Skinny elsewhere
Her breasts aredisproportionately large. “Breasts are mostly fat and skinny girls don’t have huge breasts, except in very, very rare circ*mstances,” says Dr. Terry Dubrow, a plastic surgeon in Newport Beach.
9.The “shelf”
“Natural breasts don’t form a defined ‘shelf’ where the edge of the implant meets the skin,” Dubrow says.
10. J-e-l-l-o
Breast implants when too large canfeel more firm to the touch than natural breasts do, says Dr. John Di Saia, a plastic surgeon in San Clemente and Orange. “Even young natural breast tissue does not feel like jello,” he says. And, he says, “When saline implants are placed over the muscle, their containers (shells) can also be felt within the woman’s skin.”
11.They look too good
This builds onNo. 3. “Breasts that are large and not sagging during adolescence invariably fall because of their weight, with less roundness and flattening of the top of the breasts,” says Dr. Edward Domanskis, a plastic surgeon in Newport Beach. “What once was round, full and attractive becomes saggy and droopy.”
12. “I’m fake all over!”
If awoman has altered other parts of herself, especiallyher nose and lips,Domanskis says,there’s a good chance her breasts could have beenenlarged, too.
As to the magazine’s list, Di Saia says, “Implanted breasts do not invariably have ‘closer than natural’ cleavage. For women who want to look natural and go with smaller implants and better surgeons, they might not show many of these signs.”
Somedoctors also scoffed at the idea of “sloshing.”
“Sloshing is rare, except at increased altitude,” Di Saia says.
“The sloshing comment is ridiculous,” Lambros says. “Air diffuses through the wall of the implant and won’t be there shortly after the implant.”
A commenter on the magazine’s site, perhapsalso in the cosmetic medicine field,said:
“You would not hear sloshing. A good ps would not leave any trace of a scar(s). Most often they sit too high initially, until the muscles and pockets relax and they will gradually fall into a more natural shape. You would be amazed at the skill some doctors have…you can’t even tell they’re implants.And oh yeah…all breasts are REAL, it’s the implants that are plastic.”
Thanks, doctors, points taken!
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Photo: Reality TV star Holly Madison, who has spoken openly about her breast augmentation
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