A short YouTube clip in which Robert Whitfield MD discusses common reasons women seek breast implants. He gives clinician-observed examples including media and toy influences (e.g., Baywatch, Barbies), normalization within peer groups or family (mothers having implants), and psychosocial factors such as underdevelopment and bullying during puberty leading to trauma and desire for surgery.
Can you share some of those examples? Because I always think of just, like, the surface level things. Right. Yeah. I think or I feel strongly that, you know, media, especially when I'm 55. So I grew up in the Times, you know, when people actually read magazines and looked at them. So I had a patient, one of my international patients, tell me the reason they got breast implants is because Baywatch was shown where they grew up all the time. And I was like, oh, Lord. And then she said, and I played with Barbies as a little girl. And those were the impressions she gave of why then she wanted to have breast implants. I've had people tell me it was just commonplace in the peer group. Moms had them, her mom had them. So she figured, well, it's okay. I should have breast implants. And then there's the ones who went through puberty, didn't really develop, and they were bullied. Then when they come to me and they want to discuss why they're doing or feeling poorly and what are the options that sends off all the red flags and raises up all the trauma from that period of time.
