Breast implant demands force order upsizes
By Paul Weston
March 25, 2007 01:45am
NEWS.COM.AU SILICONE breast implants are getting much larger, with models deciding "bigger is better" for their careers.
The trend has forced Australian plastic surgeons to import the super-large 1000ml implants from the US.
They credit former Baywatch star Pamela Anderson, despite her recent much publicised breast reduction, for encouraging models to be ambitious about breast size.
Pamela Noon, from the International Surgery Group on the Gold Coast, told The Sunday Mail: "In the last four to six months I've noticed a rapid increase in size.
"The trend for women having breast augmentation is to go large. Our patients believe bigger is better."
Ms Noon believes there are two factors influencing the trend, which has three clients this week booked for 800ml implants.
She said many patients after having surgery realised they should have chosen a larger size: "We're now encouraging them to think very carefully about their size."
The other factor was many patients no longer looked upon Pamela Anderson as a "freak", because other models have breasts just as large.
The average implant size for the Coast surgery has increased from 280ml to 375ml in the past five years, and models with 400ml implants have recently sought surgery to double the size.