What age did your breast development start? what size are they now?

Question

This is a serious question, as I have a daughter who is developing early at 9 and I wanted to see how unusual or not this was to reassure her that she wouldn't necessarily become very top heavy when she was older

Answer 1

Unfortunately, I will be 18 next month and am still waiting for breasts that, at this point, are probably never coming. But I remember girls in 5th grade who had them and I was really jealous. In the end, yes, those are the girls who now have the big breasts while I cover my flat chest. So I'm sorry if this is going to be the case. However, I would look at yourself because she will probably develop about the same as you.

Answer 2

Many girls are developing earlier as a result of hormones in the milk and meats we eat. But 9 isn't that early. My sister started at 9... had her period and everything. I didn't start till 10 or 11... I'd be worried if she was 4 to 8 range... that's been happening too as of late.

She sounds okay to me.

I'm a 38 (which is your back measurement by the way) and a b cup. 33 years old

My sister is a 34 back with a c cup before children. 37 years old

Answer 3

Hi - It's great that you can talk to your daughter about stuff. I too developed at 9 and it was all pretty traumatic for me because I idn't want to grow up and I felt like my body was out of control. After having anorexia for ten years, I still struggle a bit with food but am a normal weight, and they have evened out - 32c - which is not really enormous. The best thing you can do for your daughter is listen. My mum couldn't understand what I was upset about an I felt so alone and scared. Some girls love boobs, but others feel really self-conscious. But reassure her that everyone else will catch up, and get her a nice bra and try to make it fun - my mum didn't address the whole 'bra issue' and it was painful and embarrassing for me at school. Marks and Spencer do some really nice 'first bras' I have noticed, and may help her to still feel like a 'kid' and not think she has become a grown up overnight. All the best.

Answer 4

I Stated developing when I was 11,& I`m now 36 yrs old. I`m a 38D. But over the years I think girls develop earlier, with all the E numbers and additives in food. My friends daughter is 11, & she is already a 34c. I know everyone s different, but it seems that girls blosson a lot younger nowdays. I hope this helps put things into perspective for you.

Answer 5

i started abouyt 10/11 im now 13 and im 36b/c. but if she starts developing early then she'll probabley stop developing early like at about 16/17. i really wouldnt worry, puberty starts when your abour 8-14 and apparently everybody is getting younger, so thats why you were older. xxx

Answer 6

Ok. Serious answer.

All over the Developed World, girls are developing breasts and reaching menarche earlier and earlier, every year. Nine is fairly average, in the USA.

There are several causes for this phenomenon:

1) Bovine growth hormone in beef, and hormones to stimulate lactation in dairy cows. Far too much hamburger and dairy in children's diets.

2) Cultural obsession with large breasts, (Marilyn Monroe, Jean Harlow, Sofia Loren...) which has tipped the genotype among women towards large breasts. Flat-chested women's genes have been being bred out over the past 3 generations.

3) No reason NOT to develop early -- when girls farmed and worked in sweatshops, the average age of menarche was 14-16. Now, in the Developed World, girls become fertile women much earlier. This is not a Good Thing. They think it is. Being 'grown up' is very important, and it's happening earlier and earlier, among girls. Boys turn to hoodlums younger and younger, but thus far, their puberty has not moved back more than a couple of years.

4) Obesity -- absolutely epidemic in the US, UK, and EU -- both hastens the appearance of breasts, and also precipitates early menarche.

5) The nuclear family, since the 1950s, in which daughters are 'daddy's little girl' -- often literally -- and model themselves after their mothers. The collapse of the nuclear family,('70s) where daughters often took over (all) the duties of the mother, in the event of divorce or excessive friction between the parents. So long as 'a man's home is his castle', and 'family matters are private', this will continue. In households with grandparents, aunts, cousins, and so on coming and going all the time, the 'ownership' of his daughter/s by the father is not such a problem. Never underestimate the power of the human mind.

6) On which note, we have the media, and sexy babes, and the teenager (yes, she's 9; but she's a teenager too, which is very confusing for her) wants to be sexy. This results in 11 year olds having children by 16 year old boys. As I said, not a Good Thing.

the media are NOT to blame for anorexia nervosa. In my experience, scratch a morbidly anorexic girl or woman, and you will find child sexual abuse. Anorexics -- I know this personally -- try to make their bodies as unsexy as possible. Also, what a morbid anorexic eats or doesn't eat may feel like the only thing she can control, that goes into her body. Further, bones are white, and smooth, and above all, clean. Having anything inside her digestive tract feels 'dirty'. Sorry about the digression, but I am sick to DEATH of hearing the media being blamed for a psychological condition which kills 28% of those who struggle with it. I knew two girls at uni, who died of anorexia. I would have done, too, but my instinct for self-preservation made me drink vast quantities of beer. I used every calorie.

As far as your daughter is concerned, she probably is not going to keep growing for ages. Early puberty is over early, too. I was in a 36C, and menstruating, at 11. I reached my full height (all 5'3"), and bust size by the time I was 13. It is not at all unusual.

I WOULD seriously consider putting your daughter on birth-control, and giving her a grim talk about sexually transmitted infections. She is only nine, and has a nine year old's judgement, but her hormones are carbonated like any teenager's. You are dealing with a physiological woman, who is really just a child. MAKE SURE she knows she can talk to you about sex, and not be embarrassed. The more matter-of-fact you are, and comfortable talking, the easier it will be for her -- and the safer your daughter will be. And remind her that she's NINE, and ought to dress like her peers.

There is always the option of breast-reduction surgery, once your daughter is of age.

Good luck. This problem is busting out all over the Developed World. You are certainly not alone.

Answer 7

I started developing at age 8, and now at age 13 so far I'm a 34D.

Answer 8

3rd grade, they are almost a size c, no honey breast size is genetic whether from you or some female in your family she ain't never met. Breast continue to develop into late teen years and as tyra banks has said they change yearly. She went from a b to c to a d to dd and then finally back to a c.

Answer 9

I was a bit late starting, around 13, but within 6 months I was much larger than most girls my age.

Answer 10

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