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Hollyoaks Actor 1: Knockers
Girl 1: Jugs
Girl 2: Bazookas
Hollie Jay-Bowes: Lady lumps
Boy 1: Baps
Boy 2: Flaps
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Boy 3: Ooooh, look at her jugs, they’re amazing.
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Dr Dawn: Breasts come in all shapes and sizes. Take this women’s hockey team. A group of women, several pairs of boobs – all different. Small, Big. Pointed, Round. Some nipples are dark, some are light. Some stick out and others don’t. Not only that – No pair is ever perfectly symmetrical. Every woman is different.
If your friends have started to get boobs and you haven’t, don’t worry – developing at different times is perfectly normal. Some girls hit puberty as early as 8, whilst others can be mid-teens. When puberty does kick in, your breasts will start to developÖ First your nipples swell and feel tender and then, with your first period, your breasts will start to get bigger. By your late teens your breasts will probably be at their full size, although some girls continue to develop into their twenties.
Breasts are basically there to produce milk for your baby, should you chose to have one and they are sensitive to hormones.
So every month, before your period, your breasts may get larger, become tender, and even feel a bit lumpy. These changes are normal.
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Girl 3: I do like my boobs, I think they change shape quite often. But I think my boobs are okay.
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Dr Dawn: As your breasts develop you will start to think about your first bra. It may surprise you to know that in the UK 80 percent of women wear the wrong size bra! So get properly fitted. And during puberty get measured at least once a year. If your breasts change a lot before a period it may be worth investing in a different size bra for that time of the month.
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Girl 2: When i first started growing boobs they were like really small, and they still are really small.
Girl 1: I think lads prefer like bigger boobs.
Boy 4: Small boobs are alright yeah they don’t have to be massive.
Hollyoaks Actor: Just big like, just like that like.
Boy 1: I like sort of medium I don’t like too big but I like to have something there to hold onto.
Boy 2: Yeahhh.
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Dr Dawn: Developing breasts is a massive part of a girl’s life. And as more women in the media go out and get boob jobs, the more pressure girls feel to have perfect boobs. In the past year the number of 18 and 19 year olds in the UK having boob jobs has increased by more than one hundred and fifty percent.
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Hollie Jay-Bowes: Well in school like i think every girl went through a phase of wanting a boob job. It was standard. Everybody always wanted to have bigger boobs but i think when you get a bit older you either realise that you don’t need them or you kinda wait until you are old enough.
Hollyoaks Actress 2: I think it’d be a wise decision to wait until you’re a lot older before having a boob job because your body changes all the time as you’re growing up.
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Dr Dawn: If you’ve got any worries about your breasts speak to someone about it. And if it’s really getting you down, talk to your GP.
Am I Normal: Breasts
Dr Dawn Harper discusses breast development amongst teenage girls, explaining what is and isn’t normal. She also visits a girls hockey team to talk to them about their breasts and gets the perspective of the cast of Hollyoaks.
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I'm 14 and I think i'm probably only a 28AA because i've started growing boobs but they're still tiny! I don't know when to get properly measured for a bra...at the moment they're all different sizes! Please help x
Hello There, I am 15 but I have tubular breasts but as I am so young I do not want to be thinking of boobs jobs or anything like that. I cannot wear low cut tops because my boobs sag so much and are so far apart. What can I do to make my boobs not sag or be so far apart because bras are so hard to fit- I cannot find one that fits. Please help me and all those teens who have to go through this.
Hi. I am 13 and my bra size is 38 b my feel really nervous when i wear strap tops coz i am scard my breasts or bra will show and it doexs'nt help that between the end of my neck to my breasts i don't have much room so my tops are lower. my mum says it's just the way i am but i don't feel safe no more :(. xx
im 16, started my periods in january, and have 34 a/b (just) boobs. but they arent really boobs, they are just solid lumps... at first i thought they were breast buds but ive had them for 3/4 years now and have no idea if they are just hardened milk ducts or what... does anyone know what they are??
Im 13 and my boobs are not very big and all my friends have boobs and i dont, and i dont like wearing a swimming costume or anything like that infront of them what do i do ?
im the same im your age and 32b and i caorry so i only where padded bras coz of the shape but i fold my arms and get on with it and i dont go swimming at the mo coz of them but theyll get to the write shape soon sont worry
im 13 and a 32a its really small where all off my friends are like 32dd and things like that it makes me really self consious is there anything i can do to help them grow ??
I highly doubt they're a DD, you're 13 and you've only just hit puberty, i'm 17 and am a 32a/b, i wouldn't worry, more than a handful is a waste ;)
I am a 14 year old girl. Im worried about my nipples. I have size 36c bra size but my nipples worry me. There kind of like skin colour then the nipple is self is alittle darker, then where my outside nipple bit should be there seems to be like mini-spot like things (3 or 4) but without the head of the spot on them, if you get me? Can you help me please? (: xx
i'm 13 and have a 34a chest and have this too but more spots than this and i'm really worried about it x
hi i am 14 and a size 32 b is this normal or to big and will i grow to be as big as my mum she is a 36 f
it will depend on how much you eat. if you diet is simila r to you mothers then possibly you will. if your active and do alot of exercise your boobs would not be that big. i was 32b wen i was 15. your boobs are the right size. be happy
im 13, i started my periods when i was 10, 5ft 8 and a 34b/c im happy with my boobs but when i was on the beach the other day some girls said i was quite flat chested for a taller girl. I acted like i didn't care but it made me worried, does your hieght have anything to do with your size?:/xxxx
hi, im 13 and i have small boobs (32a). i have noticed a lump that feels like a stone inside the nipple area. is this normal? plz help i am realy worried. :(
Hiya, i had this and i got told it was my breast tissue that will form and is storing. i dont no if this it true but mine has gone now. xx