A woman with size K breasts says she wants them gone completely after years of pain, eye-wateringly expensive bras and unwanted attention from strangers.
Anaise Hitchcock’s breasts began developing rapidly when she was just 12 and had reached a DD-cup by the time she was 15.
The 24-year-old claims she was frequently stared at by older men as a young teenager and says the unwanted attention has continued into adulthood.
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But even more difficult are the physical symptoms she lives with as a result of her larger chest – with Anaise saying her breasts are so heavy that she can’t walk for more than three minutes without needing to rest.
She says the size and weight of her breasts affect almost every part of her daily life so rather than reducing them, she’d now prefer to have no breasts at all.
“It’s exhausting and I don’t enjoy having breasts at all so I want them gone,” Anaise, from York, told Need To Know.
“My life would be easier without them.
“My back and shoulders hurt and I can’t find a comfortable position to sleep in because they’re in the way.
“Bras dig in, I get heat rash underneath my boobs and I have permanent discolouration because of it.
“It’s so sore under there.
“It’s like carrying a rucksack but on the front.
“It’s so difficult.
“I have to be cautious of spatial awareness, too.
“If I sit at a table, I have to push the plate away from me so I don’t spill it everywhere.
“I’m 5ft 6in – perfect door handle height – so I get bruised a lot from hitting them.
“Showering is really difficult as well, and trying to wash underneath them is hard because they weigh so much.
“My breasts are so big it takes you by surprise.”
Anaise, who is currently unemployed due to hereditary spastic paraplegia – a condition that cause progressive weakness and stiffness in the leg muscles – says she only has one bra because she can’t afford to buy more.
She said: “I can’t find a physical store that has my bra size so I order online and they’re £90 a bra.
“I have one because I can’t afford [more].
“My boobs hang so low because of the weight of them, so I can’t go swimming and swimsuits don’t fit.”
Anaise says she worries about whether men are attracted to her as a person or are simply interested in her because of her chest.
She claims one man repeatedly asked intrusive questions about her breasts while trying to get a date with her.
Anaise said: “In relationships, I can’t tell if men are attracted to me because of my breast size and they have a fetish, or if they like me as a person.
“One guy was trying to get a date out of me and he constantly kept bringing the conversation back to my breast.
“He was asking what size they are, if I get them out for people, if I let people touch them.
“It’s so inappropriate and I told him I wasn’t going to answer.”
She says there are times when the prospect of being stared at is enough to make her stay at home.
Anaise said: “I was in town recently and builders were making sound effects and laughing as I was walking,
“One was chanting ‘boing boing’.
“It’s so frustrating because they don’t understand how tiring it is.
“I don’t enjoy living like this.
“It makes me not want to leave the house.”
Anaise says the problems began when she was still at school.
She said: “My breast development was so rapid compared to people my age and I felt so uncomfortable all the time.
“I was definitely stared at and there was a big issue with older men staring at me.
“I spent a lot of time shopping in town and I noticed men staring at me.
“I was 12, it was so uncomfortable.
“By 15, I was a DD so it was a rapid growth.
“It was hard as a teenager trying to work out where you fit in.
“My body was changing but I couldn’t talk to anyone about it because my body was different.”
Anaise claims she had a consultation about breast reduction surgery with the NHS in 2019.
She says doctors examined her shoulders and checked the indentations caused by her bra straps.
But she claims she was told that because she had the same symptoms as other women with large breasts, they couldn’t offer her surgery.
Breast reduction surgery is set to cost £9,000 and Anaise has launched a fundraiser to raise £5,000 for after claiming she was unable to access the procedure through the NHS.
Anaise said: “It’s so disappointing.
“Just looking at me, you can tell something needs to be done.
“It angers me, it’s physically tiring, it’s inconvenient in every way.
“There’s no positive to having breasts this size.
“If they get bigger, I don’t know what I’ll do.
“I feel like nobody cares and people think it’s for beauty reasons.
“They think I want to look better but that’s not true, it’s for health reasons.”
To donate, go to:
Donate to Help Anaise Access Life-Changing Breast Reduction Surgery, organized by Jennifer Fracas
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