Woman with GG boobs mentioned she ‘needed to make them smaller’ so she may ‘absolutely calm down’

A 27-year-old British woman says that unsolicited comments left her feeling self-conscious because about her big boobs, but after reduction surgery has now learnt to focus on what makes her happy

A British woman has told blokes to mind their own business after undergoing dramatic breast reduction surgery abroad.

Chloe Burgin, 27, said that her big boobs were always a point of insecurity, especially considering the cruel comments she received down the pub from ogling punters.

According to Chloe, who works as an education adviser, people would often comment in her local boozer that “we only know Chloe because of her big boobs“, something which made her deeply self-conscious and forced to “hide” her beneath oversized clothes. She explained: “I’d always been self-conscious. People would literally look at my boobs before they looked at me.

“It felt like they became my identity rather than me. It sounds like a joke, but after years of hearing comments like that, they really stay with you.”

Chloe, of Atherstone in Warwickshire, said says her lack of body confidence began to really have an impact on her day-to-day life, especially when it came to her friends and relationships.

She said: “If my friends suggested going to a spa, I’d always say no. I just didn’t want people looking at me.

“It affects your confidence more than people realise. Even in relationships, I found it difficult to fully relax because I was always conscious of how I looked.”

“If I wore a vest top, people thought I was trying to show them off and attract attention. The reality was they were just big. I couldn’t make them disappear.”

Alongside the emotional strain, Chloe was also dealing with physical discomfort.

She experienced regular back, neck and shoulder pain, deep grooves from bra straps and found exercise increasingly difficult, adding: “I couldn’t really run. I’d avoided exercise for years because it was just uncomfortable.

“I’d spent years worrying about what everybody else thought. I was sick of living like that.” Chloe also says that her breasts also came with a financial burden, and that she was “spending around £500 trying to find bikinis and swimming costumes that fitted properly”.

She added: “That was the first time I thought, ‘This isn’t normal.'” After considering reduction surgery for years, Chloe eventually reached breaking point, saying that she was “sick of . . . worrying about what everybody else thought.”

After discovering she was unlikely to qualify for treatment on the NHS, Chloe spent months researching providers in the UK and overseas.

She eventually chose to have her breast reduction and uplift in Turkey arranged through Longevita, a UK-registered medical travel facilitator that also featured in the documentary.

Chloe revealed that, having got the surgery, people felt they could wade in with deeply personal comments, with some questioning why she had got the reduction in the first place.

She said: “Women would say, ‘People pay thousands to have boobs like yours. You should be grateful.’ Some men would say, ‘Your boobs are your best feature,’ or, ‘What are people going to look at now?'”

Others insisted she simply needed to lose weight. “People assume it’s all fat, but it isn’t,” Chloe says. “My surgeon confirmed it was all breast tissue.”

Sharing her recovery on TikTok brought further comments, with strangers telling her she looked “worse” without her larger chest.

“For a long time I worried more about other people’s opinions than my own happiness. Looking back, that’s really sad.”

Following surgery, Chloe went from a GG cup to around a D cup – a reduction of approximately six cup sizes.