Plastic, it seems, is no longer fantastic. Even Hollywood, that factory of artifice, is demanding a return to reality when it comes to women’s bodies.
Disney Studio’s recent casting call for female extras for the fourth Pirates of the Caribbean film included a surprise announcement: ‘Must have real breasts. Do not submit if you have implants.’
Well, hallelujah. Let’s hope this is the beginning of a trend to bring some natural bounce back to the big screen and put an end to those solid orbs so disdainfully dismissed even in Hollywood as ‘chest rocks’.
Surgically enhanced breasts might still be considered sexy or essential by airhead starlets and glamour models, but the new buzzword in America is ‘authenticity’.
That’s why, for women in the public eye, having fake breasts is looking increasingly less like a career move and more like career suicide.
Another indication that fake boobs are going bust is the fact that television shows such as Extreme Makeover and The Swan (TV which promised to nip and tuck ordinary women into goddesses) have been cancelled, while statistics from the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery show that the number of breast enlargements in America (a country which always blazes a trail in terms of cosmetic surgery trends) fell from 365,000 to 312,000 last year.
Not only are the numbers down, but women are asking for smaller implants, too. No doubt these figures are partly to do with the recession, but perhaps it’s more that we’re over this juvenile obsession with playing Barbie.
The sad irony, of course, is that the vast majority of men don’t even like fake breasts or care whether breasts are large, medium or small, as long as they are soft and real.
A study published some years ago in Playboy magazine (where else?) revealed that while men might like to ogle or fantasise about women with large breasts, in reality they like women to have a pleasant, well-rounded and manageable C cup.
And here’s the real clincher as far as many young women are concerned: large breasts make you look fat. Yes. Fat.
So, unless you’re a really flat double AA and very unhappy because you feel unfeminine, putting yourself through the pain and ordeal of surgery and imagining you’ll come out looking like actress Scarlett Johansson is unrealistic, if not mad.
Scarlett Johansson looks like Scarlett Johansson because that’s the way she’s made, and not because she has a couple of silicone implants shoved in her breasts.
That’s also why she’s constantly voted as one of the sexist women on the planet. She’s real.
So roll on the backlash against celebrities who want to turn themselves into walking, talking, living dolls, and welcome to the celebration of reality. – Read more, How Fake Boobs Went Bust
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