I met an old friend the other day for coffee. Soon after we met, the conversation turned to plastic surgery (neither of us have had had any-YET) and specifically to boob jobs.

My friend startled me with her announcement, “I’m going to get my boobs done.”

I was not exactly shocked, but definitely surprised; she is a petite woman with a B-cup that seems to fit her size-definitely nothing to complain about. 

I jokingly asked her if she was going to get a DD cup, which would make her proportions just about as strange as a Barbie doll (if she also had some fat injected her hips and butt) or this woman and would definitely give her a lethal weapon (or two).

I honestly should have been able to predict her answer:

“We haven’t decided on a size yet-maybe a C-cup.”

It suddenly became clear to me; the whole boob job idea wasn’t just hers, but her boyfriend’s plan to make her into a more ideal woman to his liking. Not exactly evil or all that bad, but definitely not progressive either.

I know a few other women around my age who have had their breasts “bought and paid for”, lifted, or even reduced due to the incredible burden of back pain that’s often caused by larger breasts, but I’m still surprised to hear how often people consider plastic surgery as a first option.

One woman even surprised me by claiming that her boob lift was “the best thing she had ever done”. Quite a recommendation, but I’m not sure that plastic surgery is for everybody.

Whatever happened to the push-up bra? Do these women not even consider the Wonder Bra as a reasonable alternative? Is pushing your boobs together like the models of Victoria Secret do considered cheating too much?

Given the fact that a boob-job costs a few thousand dollars and a push-up bra costs at the most $100 (unless you get the Victoria Secret diamond bra which sells for roughly a million dollars),  is indubitably safer, keeps your breasts from feeling like sporting equipment and more like a natural part of your anatomy, and can add an extra cup to your breast size, why don’t more women choose push-up bras over going all-out on plastic surgery?

 None of this will change my friend’s mind about her forth-coming “boob job”. My only wish is that it makes her as happy as it will make her boyfriend.