Every time I see those ads for building bustlines, I laugh.  Things like, "Increase your self-confidence!  Add two cup sizes to your bustline!" or even "Why be flat?  Look more attractive in clothes the Natural Way!" 

Women who are 36C and below don't know how nice they've got it.  Consider:

(1)  They can buy bras off most sale racks.  There's no such thing as a sale price on a 44DDD bra.  I know, I've looked. 

(2)   They don't have to buy industrial-strength bras from specialty shops at inflated (excuse the expression) prices.

(3)  They don't have to deal with bra manufacturers who  think that large-sized bras should have narrow stretch straps.  I've worn those, and they just about amputate my arms at the shoulders so I don't give bras of my size with thin and/or stretchy straps a second look anymore.

What's with some of these undergarment manufacturers?  I was looking at a catalog the other day that announced that it had bras in larger sizes.  I read the small print:  "All the way up to 36D!"  When you're a 44DDD like me, a bra size like 36D just makes you laugh derisively.  I also saw an ad for foam bra inserts, "Boost Your Bust Instantly!"  If I boosted mine, it'd be under my chin! 

Why are women supposed to have large bustlines?  Granted, mine came from nature, but women who are flatter are made to feel as though they are less than a real woman.  That's ridiculous.  A lot of this came about because women are  supposedly more attractive to men if they have a larger bustline.  Well, men can look all they want, but they don't have to live with them.  My husband has the right attitude:  while he likes my 44DDD, if I were to lose one or both of them, it wouldn't change his love for me.  After all, what I'm all about has nothing to do with my breasts; it's just packaging.  Nice packaging, but still just packaging (according to him.)

I think women who get breast augmentation for anything besides medical reasons are out of their minds.  While I have nothing but compassion to the woman who has to have a mastectomy because of disease, or is seriously lopsided (one's a 34B, and the other is 40DD) then I say go for it.  But I've known and read about women who got augmentation when they were already a very respectable 36D, because they wanted to be a 44DDD.  Ladies, it's not at all what it's cracked up to be.  Some of us have neck and back problems from having too much out front.  Some of us have to go to high-priced specialty shops to buy custom-made bras that cost way more than Playtex.  At least I can still get mine on sale from time to time.  And, depending on your build, you could have a serious ballast problem.  So learn to appreciate your 34B!  And if some man thinks you aren't big enough, then he isn't, either.