Traditional breast reduction surgery leaves an anchor shape scar with a long scar under the breast. Lejour Breast Reduction features a lollipop pattern of scars that eliminates the long scar under the breast. Though developed in Europe, Lejour Breast Reductions are increasingly being performed in the US.

The power to change

Though it seems counter-intuitive, women who opt for breast reduction don't typically hate or reject their bodies. On the contrary, women who choose to reduce the size of their breasts do love their bodies so much so that they want to enhance them to look, feel, and perform better.

'I loved and accepted my body as it was', 36DD and all, but I also was realistic. There was something causing me pain and discomfort and I loved and valued myself enough to change it,' says Amelia Walker, 25, an opera singer in New York City who had the procedure two years ago.

'I was in chronic pain and face it, when you're in pain you're not happy,' she says. 'I like to run and jump and play and my chest always got in the way and prevented me from enjoying physical activity.'

That was the physical aspect. There was also the emotional pain of the unwanted attention.

'I was tired of people talking to my breasts and not my face!' says Walker. 'I wasted a lot of mental energy figuring out what kinds of clothing I could wear, shopping for outfits that were tiny on the bottom and gigantic on the top, and obsessing, in general, about my breasts and all the comments and snickers and pre-conceived notions people had because of my breasts.'

Since having breast reduction surgery, Walker says she is more active than ever. 'I can run after a bus without thinking about holding my breasts in place!' and enjoys a newfound personal freedom.

View before & after photographs of breast reduction procedures.

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