Normal Breasts Gallery, part E - pictures of different size and shape breasts from women who have been pregnant

Have you seen pictures of normal non-sexual breasts?

A huge proportion of American women are not happy with their breasts. The media images make them believe the ideal is big and perky breasts with a small nipple and areola.

But, in reality female breasts come in all kinds of sizes and shapes. These breast pictures are here to let you see normal breasts - big, small, sagging, asymmetrical; big areolas or nipples.

In fact, having asymmetrical breasts, where one is bigger than the other, is very very common. Most women have one breast slightly larger than the other. Sagging is very common also, because due to gravity, the breast naturally assumes a hanging position.

Also as we all know, size varies a lot. Some women have practically a flat chest, some have small breasts, some have much bust that the mere weight of them can cause them backaches. according to the bra industry, the most common bra cup size in the US used to be B, but has now become C probably due to the increasing obesity. Of course, the size is not constant but varies with pregnancy, breastfeeding, and during the menstrual cycle.

Many young people growing up never see what normal natural breasts look like, and influenced by the media, think that pert big breasts are ideal. Many end up opting for breast implants to "correct" their breasts — when their breasts were normal all the time!

In fact, MOST teenage girls worry and fret over their breast development, some even to the point of suicide — which is a very sad comment on how American culture is influencing young people.

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Normal Breasts Gallery, part E
Women who have been pregnant

These pictures include women of Anglo-/Teutonic European, Semitic, N. Mediterranean, and N. East Asian, Native American, Black or African American, Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander, Hispanic, and mixed descent who come from a wide variety of cultural backgrounds. But we are hoping for more volunteers, to show an even wider variety. The main point is: there is enormous variation in what is normal. Sizes and shapes vary enormously. So don't worry, ladies!

A middle-aged woman with middle-sized breasts.

Big drooping breasts, and again asymmetrical - that is SO common!

This lady has nursed three babies, last one past two years of age. Her breasts were bigger before the pregnancies but she likes this size since she can go braless and no one notices.

Breasts of a 28-year old woman who is first time pregnant in the picture.

The same lady as on the left- now breastfeeding a 9-month old.
Notice the big areola. The breasts became quite lopsided during nursing because the baby liked the left breast more for some reason.

Again the same lady, now continuing to nurse a 3-year old (second) child. The asymmetry has totally disappeared by now, and the breasts are markedly smaller, because of lesser milk production.

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Nursing mom's best tools and baby's best friends. The areola is big and dark - the normal change during pregnancy.

These small breasts with stretch marks have fed seven children - and the youngest one continues to nurse at four years old. Click on pic to see larger version.

She's 41, has been pregnant but no kids. Stretch marks are from weight loss. She says, "I'm fairly happy with my breasts, even with the left being a cup size smaller (turns out my body has the scoliosis-like thing down the entire left side of my body)."

This lady has nursed 6.5 years non-stop. The youngest one at 2 years has no interest in the left breast at all, so it is very, very small compared to the right breast.

A 25-year old with 3 children; still nursing the 1-year old. "I have always been very self-conscious of my breasts. I was very thin pre-kids and my breasts were at the most an A-Cup. When my milk came in with my 1st son, I grew to a D almost overnight and had huge tiger stripe stretch marks all over my breasts. They are bigger now than pre-kids but asymmetrical with 1 areola being larger."

The same lady as on the left; now after weaning.

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"Hello, I love that you have this site, I felt so bad about my breast for so long because I have compared them to what you see in playboy... I also feel that my husband is not as satisfied with my breast cause he thinks that nice breast should be the perfectly round with the nipples on top like he sees in magazines... I don't feel so bad now that I have seen that mine are normal. I am going to show this site to my husband as well, so he can see what real natural breast really do look like!

I'm 22 and I just had my first baby a month ago, and am currently breast feeding her. I have had some trouble with breast feeding due to my flat nipples (which I never considered flat!). I am very over weight and have pcos. I gained weight very rapidly, 100lbs in a little over a year and my breast went from a 34A to a 40D in that time. I have stretch marks along the outside of each breast up to my armpit (I don't know if you can see them or not), I do occasionally grow a few black hairs around my nipple that I have to pluck. In this picture I just finished feeding off my right breast and my left one is still full so you can see what a size difference it makes."

* 30 years old
* 4 pregnancies, 3 children
* Have been breastfeeding for
5.5 years steady
(all three children,
youngest is 1)
* Clinically obese (200 lbs, 5'5")

"I have been so self-conscious about my breasts since I was a teenager, my husband has never seen them in the light. How sad is that?!! I am 25, have 2 kids, 2 and 5, breast fed them for combined total of 9 months. I was so ashamed of them, until I ran across your website. Maybe tonight is the night my husband will see them. It will probably still take some time, I have mentally abused myself about them. I used to think I even had breast cancer because of all the "perfect breasts" pictures in magazines or the internet. Thank you for your website."

She is 34 years old in this picture, 9 years before she had a breast reduction. The place is a topless beach in Scandinavia.

This is her current picture, 30 years after the reduction at the age of 74.

"As I told you, you are doing a great job. It may help all the many, even young women who are not happy with their breast to see that there is no such word for breasts as "normal". I believe that all the hysteria and frustration is due to Hollywood. In the early 30ties you can se they had no bras in the early films. The "Swinging tits" became however too much for the American (double) moral, and the leading film - producers, such as Sam Goldwyn and Jack Warner joined effort to have the bra designed! Unfortunately, this created the illusion that breasts looks like torpedoes! As I have spent quite some time reading art history (I am a painter) I can assure you that the torpedo curve is far from what the classic esthetics considers to be ideal! In fact, the hyperbolic shape of the full, slightly sagging breast comes much closer to being so!"

"I am 40 years old having had a few kids and did breastfed my kids but was always underweight until recently quit smoking and got a better appetite and lo and behold my boobs actually grew, something I didn't believe would happen and am very happy with my body now. God gave us our bodies just the way they were meant to be, some big, some small but most of all we should all learn to love ourselves they way God intended. Which is why I never had surgery for breast augumentation even though for years I never needed to wear a bra. I think this world would be a very boring place if we were all built the same. We all feel that there is something about our bodies that we wish to change because society says there's only one perfect way to be. I say nonsense try to be happy with what God gave us ...LIFE!"

Lady in her second pregnancy, second trimester. She's normally just barely a b-cup, now almost a good c-cup. The color is much darker this pregnancy and nipples & areola's are much bigger with many more bumps (those Montgomery glands again!)

"I stumbled upon the 007b website the other day when I was looking up info about breast augmentations. I have recently been uncomfortable with my body and especially my breasts. I became much less confident in my appearance after having a baby. I was sucked into the trap of media suggestion. I envied the models and women seen on tv and in magazines with large, full, fake breasts.

After looking at the pictures on your website I had a complete change of thought. I realized a ton of other women were just as self-conscious about their breasts. And tons of these women who felt that their breasts weren't "pretty" enough have beautiful breasts that tons of other women would love to have! I also realized that men are not half as critical of women's bodies as the women are themselves. Thank you so much for such a wonderful site!

I am 24 years old, 5'6", and average weight. We lost our first baby at 2 months into the pregnancy. I have a son who is 15 months old, who breastfed for just over a year. And I am now 5 months pregnant with our third child. I wear a size 34 D to 36 D bra, depending on pregnancy and lactation. I have some stretch marks at the tops of my breasts that came during the second pregnancy. Thanks to this site I am beginning to accept and even love my own body. After all, it is the way it is from bringing babies into this world.

Thank you for all that both of you are doing for the confidence and self-acceptance of women everywhere. "

"Thank you so much for your website!!!! I found it in a book called, Boobs, A Guide to your Girls, by Elisabeth Squires. I was concerned that my breasts were not symmetrical. (The left is smaller than the right.) I always believed I was a freak since the only boobs I'd ever seen besides mine were in movies or men's magazines and they were always larger than mine and "perfect."

I am a 38-year-old mother of 2. I nursed both of my kids for a little over a year each. I've always been ashamed of "my girls" and thought they were too small and imperfect. Your website shows the real diversity that is out there and I am happy to see that REAL breasts are not Hollywood breasts. Thanks again! I am happy with "my girls" now!"

"- Age:21 Cup size: 34A
- I have been pregnant twice before and am currently 9 weeks pregnant, though my breasts have not ever changed in size during any pregnancies - they just felt a little fuller. Some stretch marks.
- Breast fed both children for about 2 weeks
- I have always been very thin and always had a difficult time gaining weight. Before I got pregnant with my first child I weighed 100 lbs and have lost weight with each child.

In my family, everyone has at least a D cup, so when my boobs stopped growing in 8th grade I became the butt of everyone's jokes for years. I used to be ashamed of my small boobs, but then I grew to love and accept them. Now I have found a wonderful man who loves my small cup size, which I partially attribute to my ability to be confident about the way I look. As for this website, it's so wonderful to see what a normal breast looks like, not being portrayed in a sexual manner or hiding what society tells us are imperfections. Kudos to everyone with the courage to send their picture!"

"I am 27 years old and have two children (one of which I breastfed for about a month). I do have stretch marks and sagging; one nipple is perkier than another. I have never been overweight and am no longer as athletic as I was 10 years ago. I regret being so ashamed of my breasts before I had my children. I was a 36C and size 5 and felt completely abnormal. Turns out, I was abnormally beautiful. Now that my breasts are different, I have to try to remind myself that although they are not perfect, they are still beautiful but in a different way than before."