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To be jealous of my younger sister's boobs

114 replies

frogspoon · 31/05/2013 09:50

Younger sis and I are both in our 20s, no kids yet.

Younger sis got her boobs measured again the other day. Every time she gets measured, she seems to get bigger. She is now a 30DD/E.

I have been a 32B for the last 10 years (I do get measured every couple of years in hope I will have got bigger), and doubt I will get any bigger, at least until I have kids. I don't really want plastic surgery and I already wear padded bras.

To top it all off, she is also an inch taller than me.

AIBU to be jealous of her. (I probably am, as she has a higher risk of back problems etc)

OP posts:
Sallystyle · 31/05/2013 19:06

I actually quite like mine in a way. They are perfectly round and pert 5 children later but there are so many clothes I can't wear but then I guess I am lucky that I can wear stuff those with massive boobs can't.

When I was younger they bothered me a lot, but at almost 32 I don't care so much. I would love to be a B cup but don't obsess over it like I once did.

Umlauf · 31/05/2013 19:16

Yes thanks frogspoon for calling my 13 year old self shallow. I self harmed as I was bullied a lot by girls and frequently groped by boys for having big boobs and I hurt myself as a reaction. I also attempted suicide and was hospitalised.

Now I'm twice that age but its not easy to have grown women judge me as trashy for something I have no control over.

Thanks a lot, you sound lovely.

marciaoverstrand · 31/05/2013 19:25

I'm a 32b, a tad deflated after bf two dds but still prefer them them to a big pair tbh!
As dh says more than a handful is a wasteGrin

ballroomblitz · 31/05/2013 19:34

A cup here. Used to be a B before bf two babies. Sis is a D!! I get what you mean, I would the size of her boobs but we were talking the other day and she daid she was jealous of mine as hers hurt when she doesn't wear a bra, a problem I've never had.

Alisvolatpropiis · 31/05/2013 19:35

Yabu!

I would genuinely hate to have big boobs. Don't like mine as they are, a C. They ruin how clothes look completely imo.

Skinheadmermaid · 31/05/2013 22:28

I'm a 32AA and i love my boobs.
My sister, who is seven years younger then me has boobs so large i can wear her bra as a hat. It doesn't bother me in the slightest; she is an apple shape with a flat bottom. I am a pear and feel my -cough- shapely behind 'makes up' for my 'lack' of boobage.
Anyone hating on their boobs should get their nipples pierced, c'mon embrace the boobies of all shapes and sizes!
YABU....

SinisterBuggyMonth · 31/05/2013 23:30

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ballroomblitz · 31/05/2013 23:37

Oh I had one of mine pierced skinhead but took it out during preg and bf. Thinking about getting small lefty repierced

QuintessentialOldDear · 31/05/2013 23:43

Yabu. 32B is great.

By the time you have had two children (and breastfed them) your boobs will most likely be a C cup, but still pert and young and without stretch marks.

Your breasts will not sag, will not get sweaty in the "under wired region" and heavy, and your chest will look flattering and young until you are in your fourties and beyond!

You will not have stretch marks, and you will not have saggy, and neither wrinkly breasts.

You can look forward to decades of gorgeous, pert womanhood.

cerealqueen · 01/06/2013 00:56

Check out the one of the bra threads on style & beauty, I assumed I was a 34b but am, in fact a 32FF!!!!!!

Your sister will still be bigger but a new perspective will help? (I hope)

Do it!

goodasgold · 01/06/2013 01:14

Umlauf I read your post, and was quite shocked by the ops response, 'at least I'm not...'

I hope that you are doing OK, good on you for posting on this thread. We have loads of mastectomy and breast cancer deaths in our family. Tit size isn't an issue for us. We prefer to worry about the size of our partners cocks.

SorrelForbes · 01/06/2013 01:27

Please, everyone posting above saying their an AA, A or B, come to the bra thread and get remeasured. I bet most of you are not that size at all.

mercury7 · 01/06/2013 01:38

I've very small bosoms and have never coveted larger ones, I mean I can see that they look sexy but they must be jolly inconvenient for running?

SorrelForbes · 01/06/2013 10:07

Oh dear god they're

StatisticallyChallenged · 01/06/2013 10:11

That made me smile Sorrel, my late night posts are often like that too

BombayBadonkadonks · 01/06/2013 11:31

I love my still quite pert 32G boobs! They sometimes look tarty but can also look sophisticated!

There is a fab shop here in the East Riding which caters for large boobage with a large choice of very pretty bras. They have an excellent measuring service too.

puds11isNAUGHTYnotNAICE · 01/06/2013 11:37

I wish my boobs were a B! Mine are a DD and I hate them. They are nice looking, but they make me feel self conscious, and I also hate having to wear a bra.

mercury7 · 01/06/2013 11:44

I also hate bra's and surely more boobage (however delectable and womanly it looks) just means a more substantial and uncomfortable bra, especially in the sports bra department?

HighInterestRat · 01/06/2013 11:46

Oof look at all the boob hate. I have big boobs and am slim and I enjoy them a lot. So neh.

It's awful to feel jealous though op. I also think you should go and get measured yourself, you might be surprised.

StatisticallyChallenged · 01/06/2013 11:56

But...don't you look trashy Highinterestrat - personally I'm now worried about how I will ever be taken seriously professionally with my trashy body type ;)

MadBusLady · 01/06/2013 11:56

I find it extremely hard to find any empathy for anyone who implies that a little sibling envy is shallow, and yet self mutilation is fine.

Erm. Jesus, frogspoon I don't think she was trying to say self-mutilation is fine!

HighInterestRat · 01/06/2013 12:02

Probably Stat but I just can't bring myself to care too much. Grin

changeforthebetter · 01/06/2013 12:03

What ENormasNob said!

Hefts 30Js out of way and reflects did not impede feeding two kids, getting two degrees and speaking 5 languages....... bitter much? Hmm

changeforthebetter · 01/06/2013 12:03

That should be a hmm face- why can't I get that on my iPad?

MadBusLady · 01/06/2013 12:07

I've had small boobs and big boobs at different stages of life and on balance I prefer big. I have wide hips (as in the hipbones are wide; they were wide when I didn't have an inch of fat on me) and bigger boobs balance them out. It definitely cuts both ways though - I look so-so in vests and jeans now, and great in a dress, whereas with small boobs it was the other way round.