I think everybody's experience is different, but it's worth waiting til 18 to see if the young woman's body is settling down. Also, in this country especially, to get the young woman away from the social pressures of high school. (People in high school had me convinced I was just hideous in every way. I just didn't happen to care.) And to take into account weight fluctuations in college that are so common. And although it was not my own experience, so many young women, when they go on the birth control pill, have breast size increase.
A lot of trendy clothes are cut for ridiculously-proportioned skinny girls, tinier than me, almost exclusively. I wouldn't go on a diet to fit them. And then there are bras from victoria's secret which only fit breasts with helium implants, apparently (seriously, if they want them to be pointing upwards in the first place, is there an under-bra bra to go with that?)
I'm a little puzzled by this trend anyway since girls seem to start developing so much younger these days, for whatever reason (endocrine disruptors in the environment? hormones in milk?) - I'd think more would be concerned about looking "tall enough" than "busty enough." Maybe there are parents feeding their kids HGH too, and it just wasn't reported here.
You're an adult, you made the decision for yourself and not because your partner insisted on it, either, and I can respect that. You had to make many decisions for yourself at a younger age than many of us, and you also grew up in a different culture from the one here, so the influences on you are different. I do still think that the trend in American teenage girls doing this is alarming. I don't think that anyone expressing contempt or shadenfreude toward the young women making that decision is appropriate though!
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A lot of trendy clothes are cut for ridiculously-proportioned skinny girls, tinier than me, almost exclusively. I wouldn't go on a diet to fit them. And then there are bras from victoria's secret which only fit breasts with helium implants, apparently (seriously, if they want them to be pointing upwards in the first place, is there an under-bra bra to go with that?)
I'm a little puzzled by this trend anyway since girls seem to start developing so much younger these days, for whatever reason (endocrine disruptors in the environment? hormones in milk?) - I'd think more would be concerned about looking "tall enough" than "busty enough." Maybe there are parents feeding their kids HGH too, and it just wasn't reported here.
You're an adult, you made the decision for yourself and not because your partner insisted on it, either, and I can respect that. You had to make many decisions for yourself at a younger age than many of us, and you also grew up in a different culture from the one here, so the influences on you are different. I do still think that the trend in American teenage girls doing this is alarming. I don't think that anyone expressing contempt or shadenfreude toward the young women making that decision is appropriate though!