I Waffled on Getting a Breast Reduction - but I'm So Glad I Finally Did

When I was 11, I wanted bigger breasts - at least, I thought I did. From an early age, the truth of what I wanted was muddled by what it seemed like other people wanted: large breasts and a thin body, an ideal defined by men and embraced by many women. I didn't have long to wait: I was a C cup by 13, a D cup by the end of high school, and when I finally got fitted by a professional in college, a 30G. Large breasts were currency in the '90s and 2000s, when I first became aware of myself as a sexual being. Pamela Anderson, Carmen Electra, and Jennifer Love Hewitt were aspirational. Boys in . . .