Ptosis Gallery

Ptosis of the Breast (Toe - sis... the 'p' is silent) is a technical way to describe breasts that are pendulous, or they may more often be referred to as 'sagging' or 'drooping' breasts. When women are young, with breast buds just starting to bloom, their nipples are 'pert' and nipples appear high up on their chest. This becomes ingrained as a type of bookmark that refers to a 'younger age'.

As their breasts mature and gain in size and complexity, they tend to become heavier, and fill out further forward of the ribcage, so they will generally 'head South'. Their nipples will tend to move downward. The natural human breast basically attaches between the clavicle bone and the sixth rib when a woman is in her twenties, but the lower attachment point actually will move downward toward the next lower rib as she reaches her later years. Many women feel a bit of despair about the fact that when their breasts are no longer high on their chests, it indicates to most observers that they are becoming... well, older.

When she is twelve, becoming older may be exciting, but thirty years later it is not a happy event.

It is a common, popular assumption that when breasts point outward from the chest the woman is young, and when they hang downward toward her feet she is old, but that is not always a true fact. In some cases, breasts may be very pendulous when the woman is still in her early twenties, and some may be very firm and uplifted when she is in her 'golden' years.

Heredity controls whether they will become pendulous in most cases. Other causes for breasts to be less protruding can be the type of diet upon which the woman lives, and whether she smokes. In some cases breasts in some societies are literally tied downward, forcing them to develop downward, because they are "more beautiful" in that society when the nipples are pointing to her feet instead of pointing directly ahead .

And it may be a surprise to you, but multiple international studies have shown that a woman who wears a bra regularly robs her breast-supporting ligaments (Ligaments of Cooper) of a need to be stronger, so they do not develop as much as they would if she never wore a bra. Essentially, the more you wear a bra, the less support your ligaments will provide, resulting in bra-free women having less breast droop, and a slower progression of sagging.

Back around 1917, a 19 year-old woman wanted to steer away from those foundation garments that forced her upper body into specific shapes by using steel and bone 'stays' inside the garments. Those garments seriously impeded her body movements that the new dances demanded. The Charlston, The Turkey Trot, The Jitterbug... all the 'latest and greatest' dances.

She also wanted to have less breast movement when she was dancing, so she asked her seamstress to fashion some type of garment from some scarves and ribbons that would prevent her breasts from swaying. That idea became popular and she placed a patent upon the idea, which she sold to Warner's, the first successful commercial manufacturer of the "Brassiere". Now, the hundreds of manufacturers of bras, girdles, bustiers, bandeaus, or what-have-you count on women having a dislike for their breasts 'giving away their age', so they purchase bras that are often poorly fitted and almost always uncomfortable. These provided some control of their breasts, from moving and giving away their presence, and to prevent them from 'stretching out' and sagging with time. It is too bad that did not happen.

It has been shown many times that by NOT wearing a supportive garment, such as a bra, the natural Cooper's Ligaments inside the breasts will provide the needed support and keep the breasts at a higher position than they will attain if a bra is frequently worn. Basically, if a bra supports the weight of the breasts, the ligaments are not needed to lift the breasts, and they atrophy (the ligaments atrophy, not the breasts). It is the same as the non-use of the ligaments in a leg. If a broken leg requires you to wear a cast on that leg, that will allow the muscles and ligaments to not be used, and they too will atrophy. Without wearing a bra, breast ligaments will naturally grow to maintain the natural support of the breasts.

Also, without a bra, your breasts will move more freely. It has been shown that there is a connection between the need for your breasts to move more freely, in order to circulate the lymphatic fluids and eliminate static toxins in your breasts. I go into much greater detail on the health implications of the bra in an article I wrote in the Awareness Section of BreastNotes titled "The 'Purpose' of the Bra".

Like the other Galleries on this site, the intent of publishing these images is to encourage those ladies who feel they are alone in having breasts of which they are not proud. It is designed to help them realize they are among many sisters who share their distinction. You are not unique... you are special. Many, many women have breasts that sag, somewhat.

And these models we show in these galleries are proud of their breasts. If I could include their lips in the images, you will find they are happy. They are gladly showing you that just like you, they are all special people too. Not strange people. Not ugly people. Just more of God's special creations. And they are proud to show that.

You may see some images that you feel are not at all part of this gallery. They are included because every single woman represented here in this gallery shows some degree of ptosis of the breasts. Some to a slight degree, and some to a greater degree.

If any part of the breast is lower than the lower attachment of the breast to the chest wall, someone considers that to constitute breasts sagging. Most might just consider them to be 'normal'. And that is true... even when they may sag lower than a sixteen-year-old girl's breasts, they are 'normal'. And they are beautiful.

Wearing a bra tends to remove the appearance of breast sagging. You would not be aware of some of these models having any ptosis of the breasts if they put on that bra. But, as you can see in other articles on this website, many international studies have been done that proved a woman's wearing a bra increases her lifetime risks of being diagnosed with breast cancer. Do you see any women who you would prefer they wear the bra, look younger, and die from breast cancer? Forty thousand American women did exactly that last year, and forty thousand more will pass away this year... and again the following year, due to breast cancer. One may be you... or your dearest friend.

Because current 'fashion' does not 'glorify' naturally beautiful breasts that are positioned on the chest at a lower level, women who have pendulous breasts tend to feel inferior to other women with higher-lifted or 'younger' looking breasts, so they may keep their breasts hidden, even from themselves, or resort to surgery to 'lift' their breasts. In reality, there are many people... men and women alike... who actually adore breasts such as these... such as yours, and it is their hope that these beautiful breasts be celebrated by those who possess them, and that they wear them proudly. They are deeply admired.

It is hoped that something else is accomplished by publishing these images. In parts of the world where their society think nothing of a woman sun-bathing at the beach top-free, or many cultures where climate allows the women to never wear anything above the waist, breasts are seen every day. And when you see something every day, it loses it's mystique, or we lose our fear of whatever we see. Basically, it is something that we get used to. By looking through all of these images, and seeing how beautiful these women are, our hope is that we begin to accept breasts that look like these, and we do not shun them.

It is because of our social attitudes about the human body and breasts in particular that force women to wear a bra, and that forces one third of one million American women to be diagnosed with breast cancer every year. Let's admire breasts that look like real breasts, and start cutting our clothing so that it does not force a woman to buy a special bra just to be able to 'fit' into the dress. And these steps will reduce our risks of being diagnosed with breast cancer.

I've said it many times in this website: "Women who never wear a bra have the same risk of being diagnosed with breast cancer as a man." (U.S. Bra and Breast Cancer Study). Last year there were about 2,700 US men diagnosed with breast cancer. That same year the number of US women diagnosed with breast cancer was over one quarter of one million.

No two breasts look the same. Even the two that share the same chest. Let's accept them as that and not force the women to force their breasts to look like the few that make it in Hollywood. Let's celebrate real, normal breasts.

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We need to clarify something here.

"These images show breasts that are far lower on the chest than mine are. Mine just SAG a little."

They classify Ptosis of the Breast as several degrees of 'sag'. They determine their degree of ptosis by the location of the nipple in relation to the location of the crease below the breast, where the lower part of the breast connects with the chest wall. The term 'ptosis' is not applied until the nipple is at or below the level of that 'inframammary ridge'... that under-breast crease. If the nipple is above that level, it is referred to as 'breast sag'.

There are a multitude of terms used when describing breasts. I assume that is so a doctor can observe a pair of breasts and write one of those terms to describe what he is observing. Doctors have traditionally used fancy words, and we just felt it was to keep we, the patients, in the dark. But it likely is to better describe in few words what the doctor observes. We do have to remember that a lot of 'descriptive' words/terms/names that we hear are made up by the general public. For instance: 'Mammary Gland' is the term that describes 'Breast'. How many 'slang' or 'street' terms/names can you come up with that describes 'the girls'? I have seen close to one hundred.

"OK... why so many images for 'sagging' breasts and far fewer for other types of breasts?"

There are several reasons I added so many. Four hundred ninety-three lovely ladies, actually. Thank you, girls.

First, it is because so many women deal with ptosis of the breasts ( which simply means sagging breasts. You can have ptosis of the eyelids as well). We want you to realize this is not a rare situation. We have no formal numbers, but if you look at your breasts in a mirror, without a bra, and any part of your breast is closer to your feet than the inframammary ridge (the crease where the lower part of your breasts attach to your chest wall), then your breasts 'sag'. Most women on the street are in that category. But you cannot tell because so many of then are wearing bras when you see them in the street.

They are wearing a bra because they don't want their breasts to sag... at all. That is because our society likes women's breasts to not sag. However, with the facts coming out about wearing bras being connected with a much higher risk of being diagnosed with breast cancer, which ends up taking so many women from us (over 40,000 in the USA alone, during 2024), perhaps that is too high a price to pay, just to satisfy the average stranger on the street.

Another reason there are so many of these images in these galleries is we want you to get used to seeing how breasts look when they are sagging. I suspect that you may gain a better understanding of them and learn to appreciate them more, should you become more used to seeing them.

Just as we want to blame one dark, mysterious item for causing breast cancer, we often want to assign guilt to a single item for breasts drooping more than a pubescent girl's breasts. In both cases it is a multitude of possible things that are the bad guy... or guys. If the woman in picture P-024 is nineteen years old with those breasts, we can pretty much blame heredity for her ptosis. If the woman pictured in P-029 is forty years old, and her breasts were not at all sagging when she was thirty, it is very possible that she has recently had a major weight loss. Model number P-064 is pregnant. Her breasts suddenly (within months) have gained at least one cup-size or maybe two. She likely has worn a bra since she first had breasts, and her support ligaments are not strong enough to support her pre-conception breasts, let alone what she has now. Because she wears a bra, her bra supports her breasts and her breast-supporting ligaments take a holiday and don't bother to gain in strength as her breasts become larger and heavier.

"But, what about those who report just a little sagging? "

Back around 1963 there was a major social/societal event in the US. Women were starting to step up and demand equality and they were attending the beach in top-free bathing suits. I was in college then, in a small California town, and the headlines in the papers were having fun and selling a lot of newspapers by printing everything they could about "topless bathers". That was also when the "go-go dancers" in bars in San Francisco and the strippers were leaving their "pasties" in their drawer and dancing with exposed nipples.

Technically, bathing in a public beach was legal at that time, and I recall the paper quoting an idiot on the city council stating "We cannot really complain about young girls being topless, but if some old bag..." his words. This entire website is designed to help educate jerks like him.

A columnist for the love-lorn in national circulation at that time was called Ann Landers. "She" is credited with coming up with the "pencil test" to determine if you "should go top-free" anywhere in public. I believe it was from an earlier source but that does not matter. How it is performed is you take a standard wood pencil, you lift your breast, you place the pencil right on the inframammary crease and hold while you release your breast. Now release your hand from the pencil. Did the pencil stay 'trapped' under your breast? Or did it fall out? If it stays, you fail the Pencil Test. "Your breasts sag too much to be seen in public with bare breasts." You would be one of those "...old bags" that jerk was speaking about. By the way. Not one of the models in these galleries would pass the pencil test.

Horrors! No woman wants to have "saggy boobs". So you walk away shamed, and that is why you do not see them in pictures and movies. "They are not normal". This is the exact reason this gallery exists. To try to educate all who see it about what is 'normal' and that no breast is 'ugly'.

We make breasts 'ugly'. We pierce them, hang bits of metal from the nipples, draw permanent images on them with tattoos, surgically slice-n-dice 'em... how can anyone think they can improve the beauty of a breasts by doing any of those things?

Please look at these images (I know, I really don't 'have to ask, do I... you already checked 'em out). You may question why we placed some of them in this group. You may think that some breasts just look... 'normal'. Bingo. They are 'normal'. They are ALL 'normal'. Society determines what is 'normal'. It may be more accurate to say our society determines what is POPULAR. God determines what is normal. Chinese, from about 1000 BC to 1900 AD wanted all Chinese women binding their breasts so that they literally were not obvious. Europeans for hundreds of years could care less what the breasts looked like. They even were exposed in many of the fashions in those days. Some societies never wear anything on the upper body, except tattoos and beads.

Americans wanted tiny breasts during the first part of the twentieth century. Then the bra was invented and by the fifties breasts were emphasized and shaped like the front bumper of a '57 Cadillac El Dorado... huge and pointed. Twiggy came to America's shores and everyone wanted tiny breasts... without bras. Today millions of women see a plastic surgeon and alter their breasts to make them larger or smaller or closer or balanced in size or... at least hang a ring or barbell through the nipples.

And... whichever is 'in Vogue' today, that is what you will see in the movies, magazines, on TV... any media. And we think that is how every woman should look. What does that do to the millions of women who's breasts do not look like Hollywood or Bollywood or Dollywood would like them to look?

It makes them think, "I look ugly." "I don't look like any other woman." "I want new breasts... call the surgeon."

Well, that is why you see all of these models posing on this page. Every one of these women have breasts someone would say sag. Or droop. Unlesseveryone in the entire country suddenly joins their local nudist resort, we have no idea how many women have breasts that dip lower than the lower attachment point. Why not? Because bras won't let them rest where they belong. They lift them up like a teen girl's breasts. And that prevents lymphatic circulation through the breasts, resulting in a woman who regularly wears a bra having a 21-fold higher risk of being diagnosed with breast cancer.

So what if all bras were gone? I don't know. Could you live your life with the women around you looking like these models? I do know that these women would feel a lot better if you could.

We are proudly seeing a lot more women wearing clothing without putting on the bras, and their choice of fashion does not hide the fact that their breasts actually do sag somewhat. Here are some examples of women in public who are not wearing bras. Do you think they look ugly?

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These images were taken from the internet. Most have no ownership mark. Some images may be owned by a photographer, and if you own one and don’t want it here, please let me know and I will remove it. If you can show you own it and wish it to remain, I will gladly credit you for the image, with our appreciation. Some images are owned by clients who have given permission to use them. My thanks go to all of the models and their photographers. A big Thank You for helping to educate everyone.