• The ideal bra: a matter of cups

Too big, too small ... Although it may seem like a real barbarity (which it is), two out of every three women on this planet - 70.7% - feel dissatisfied with the size of their breasts , according to a published study earlier this month.

Amazing, right? Well there is still more. In this research, led by the professor of the Anglia Ruskin University (Cambridge, United Kingdom) Viren Swami and in which the data of 18,541 females of 40 nationalities with an average age of 34 years were analyzed, it is revealed that 48% of respondents yearn to have a larger bra size; that 23%, on the other hand, would like to have it smaller; and that only 29% feel happy as it is .

Swami and his team also found out that Brazilians, Japanese, Chinese, Egyptian and British are the most unhappy while those surveyed in Ghana, Colombia, Spain , Paraguay and Indonesia are much more satisfied. Also that in India, Pakistan, Egypt, Lebanon and the United Kingdom, the breast ideal is larger; while in Japan, the Philippines, Germany, Austria and Malaysia prefer the smallest.

To reach these conclusions, among other things, the authors of the report showed the participants photographs with different breast sizes so that they could decide which ones were the most similar to theirs and which they would like to have. Similarly, they inquired about their weight, their perception of their own body image, their psychological profile, their economic status and their consumption of media.

SELF EXPLORATION

Although the ideal varies depending on the different canons of beauty of each culture, this research makes it very clear that, when chosen, the winning option would be to have more, a fact that has its most direct reflection in the relentless increase of cosmetic surgery operations.

The good news is that this dissatisfaction, it seems, is cured over the years since older respondents showed higher rates of self-acceptance . A fact that, according to experts, may be due to the psychological change that involves the conception of the chest beyond the aesthetic point of view that brings motherhood.

The matter, although quite revealing, might seem 'something merely superficial' if the second great fact that this group of researchers obtained is not taken into account: those women who feel less satisfied are also those who pay less attention to their breasts since the Health point of view . In addition to not being so aware of the changes that occur in them, they often overlook that simple gesture and that so many lives can save that it is self-exploration.

WHY DON'T WE LIKE?

"Many aspects influence this issue, not only the role of beauty in women over the years and what this affects in the transgenerational (which we already have behind us), but the role of the family, which it is absolutely crucial in everything that has to do with the acceptance of the child as it is. Probably, we do not like each other because the adults who have been our referents do not like themselves, "explains Marta Martín, psychologist (col. M-27551).

What can we do to remedy this situation? Can it be achieved? "In the clinic, I see more and more people who get it, but it is not an easy job ; it requires realizing and accepting, above all, what we hate most of ourselves . Things that, many times, we see reflected in other people who they serve as a mirror (in psychology we call it projection), and we don't want to look, "says the psychologist.

However, he adds, "In an era where what I want I already have, I do not consider going to a psychologist to see if I can accept myself as I am, because that takes a lot of work. If there is something I do not like, I will I change and go, but do I accept myself? "

Marta Martín points out that " social networks and porn have a very negative influence on all this, since the bodies that appear are not natural; they are 'molded' anatomies so that the excitement patterns are conditioned by them, closing the vicious circle and feeding back, "he concludes.

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