{"generated":"2026-10-20","source":"Wikipedia","sourceUrl":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breast_enlargement","article":{"title":"Breast enlargement","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breast_enlargement","shortDescription":"Techniques to increase the size of human breasts","revisionId":"1289906330","revisionUrl":"https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Breast_enlargement&oldid=1289906330","lastEdited":"11 May 2025","category":"Breast","languages":["Español (Aumento de pecho)","中文 (豐胸)"],"license":"Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-SA 4.0)","referencesCount":7},"overview":"Breast enlargement is the enlargement of the breasts. It may occur naturally as in mammoplasia or may occur artificially through active intervention. Many women regard their breasts, which are female secondary sex characteristics, as important to their sexual attractiveness, as a sign of femininity that is important to their sense of self. Due to this, when a woman considers her breasts deficient in some respect, she might choose to engage in some activity intended to enhance them.","natural":{"term":"Mammoplasia","note":"The article names natural breast enlargement as mammoplasia, distinguishing it from enlargement produced by active intervention."},"methods":[{"id":"surgical","name":"Surgical breast augmentation","category":"Surgical","summary":"Surgical breast augmentation, such as with breast implants or fat transfer.","detail":"The article lists surgical breast augmentation as an actual and potential method to achieve larger breasts, naming two routes: breast implants and fat transfer (fat grafting). It links to the breast augmentation and breast implant articles for the operative detail, cost and risk information held there.","references":[]},{"id":"hormonal","name":"Pharmacological or hormonal breast enhancement","category":"Hormonal","summary":"Administration of medications such as estrogen or breast enlargement supplements.","detail":"The article lists pharmacological or hormonal breast enhancement through administration of medications such as estrogen or breast enlargement supplements. Three of the article's seven citations support this method: two clinical texts on hormone therapy and breast cancer metastasis, and a 1998 study on hormonal breast augmentation and insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I).","references":[2,3,4]},{"id":"energy-intake","name":"Increasing food energy intake","category":"Weight and body composition","summary":"Eating more and/or more energetic foods so that more adipose tissue is created, part of it near the breast area.","detail":"The article states that by increasing food energy intake, more adipose tissue will be created, part of which will consist of adipose tissue located near the breast area. The amount added to the breasts varies from person to person and is controlled by the KLF14 gene. The article notes that additional modification of the KLF14 gene can thus make sure even more of the adipose tissue increase will occur at the breasts.","references":[5,6]},{"id":"mechanical","name":"Mechanical breast enhancement","category":"Mechanical / external","summary":"Devices that apply sustained external expansion or mechanical stimulus to the breasts.","detail":"The article lists mechanical breast enhancement as a potential method, supported by a single citation: a 2007 Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery study evaluating the Brava external tissue expander and asking whether breast enlargement without surgery is a reality.","references":[7]}],"ineffective":[{"id":"mark-eden","name":"Mark Eden bust developer","category":"Ineffective","summary":"A fraudulently marketed method and device.","detail":"The article places the Mark Eden bust developer in its list of ineffective methods to achieve larger breasts, describing it as a fraudulently marketed method and device."}],"seeAlso":[{"title":"Breast augmentation","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breast_augmentation","internal":"/surgical/breast-augmentation/"},{"title":"Breast reduction","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breast_reduction"},{"title":"Reconstructive surgery","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconstructive_surgery"},{"title":"Penis enlargement","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penis_enlargement"}],"facts":[{"topic":"Definition","statement":"Breast enlargement is the enlargement of the breasts; it may occur naturally as in mammoplasia or artificially through active intervention."},{"topic":"Why it is sought","statement":"Many women regard their breasts, a female secondary sex characteristic, as important to sexual attractiveness and as a sign of femininity, so a woman who considers her breasts deficient may choose an activity intended to enhance them."},{"topic":"Surgical method","statement":"Surgical breast augmentation — with breast implants or fat transfer — is listed as an actual and potential method to achieve larger breasts."},{"topic":"Hormonal method","statement":"Pharmacological or hormonal enhancement through medications such as estrogen or breast enlargement supplements is listed, with citations to a hormone-therapy text, a breast cancer metastasis text and a 1998 study of IGF-I in hormonal breast augmentation."},{"topic":"Food energy intake","statement":"Increasing food energy intake creates more adipose tissue, part of it located near the breast area; the amount added to the breasts varies between people."},{"topic":"KLF14 gene","statement":"The amount of adipose tissue added to the breasts is controlled by the KLF14 gene, so modification of KLF14 could direct more of the tissue increase to the breasts."},{"topic":"Mechanical method","statement":"Mechanical breast enhancement is listed as a potential method, cited to a 2007 study of the Brava external tissue expander."},{"topic":"Ineffective method","statement":"The Mark Eden bust developer is named as an ineffective method — a fraudulently marketed method and device."},{"topic":"Article scope","statement":"The article lists four actual or potential methods, one ineffective method and seven references, and is cross-listed in the Wikipedia category 'Breast'."}],"references":[{"n":1,"citation":"\"Secondary sex characteristics\". sexarchive.info (Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin). Retrieved 31 October 2011.","links":[{"label":"sexarchive.info","url":"http://www.sexarchive.info/ATLAS_EN/html/secondary_characteristics.html"}]},{"n":2,"citation":"Göretzlehner, Gunther; Lauritzen, Christian; Römer, Thomas; Rossmanith, Winfried (1 January 2012). Praktische Hormontherapie in der Gynäkologie. Walter de Gruyter. pp. 385–. ISBN 978-3-11-024568-4.","links":[{"label":"Google Books","url":"https://books.google.com/books?id=TIs2WhfYzZ4C&pg=PA385"},{"label":"ISBN 978-3-11-024568-4","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-3-11-024568-4"}]},{"n":3,"citation":"Mansel, R.E.; Fodstad, Oystein; Jiang, Wen G. (14 June 2007). Metastasis of Breast Cancer. Springer Science & Business Media. pp. 217–. ISBN 978-1-4020-5866-0.","links":[{"label":"Google Books","url":"https://books.google.com/books?id=14pb5b6gT-oC&pg=PA217"},{"label":"ISBN 978-1-4020-5866-0","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-4020-5866-0"}]},{"n":4,"citation":"Hartmann, B.W.; Laml, T.; Kirchengast, S.; Albrecht, A.E.; Huber, J.C. (1998). \"Hormonal breast augmentation: prognostic relevance of insulin-like growth factor-I\". Gynecological Endocrinology. 12 (2): 123–7. doi:10.3109/09513599809024960. PMID 9610425.","links":[{"label":"doi:10.3109/09513599809024960","url":"https://doi.org/10.3109/09513599809024960"},{"label":"PMID 9610425","url":"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9610425/"}]},{"n":5,"citation":"Katch, V.L.; Campaigne, B.; Freedson, P.; Sady, S.; Katch, F.I.; Behnke, A.R. (July 1980). \"Contribution of breast volume and weight to body fat distribution in females\". American Journal of Physical Anthropology. 53 (1): 93–100. doi:10.1002/ajpa.1330530113. PMID 7416252.","links":[{"label":"doi:10.1002/ajpa.1330530113","url":"https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.1330530113"},{"label":"PMID 7416252","url":"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7416252/"}]},{"n":6,"citation":"Small, K.S.; Hedman, A.K.; Grundberg, E.; et al. (June 2011). \"Identification of an imprinted master trans regulator at the KLF14 locus related to multiple metabolic phenotypes\". Nature Genetics. 43 (6): 561–4. doi:10.1038/ng.833. PMID 21572415.","links":[{"label":"doi:10.1038/ng.833","url":"https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.833"},{"label":"PMID 21572415","url":"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21572415/"}]},{"n":7,"citation":"Schlenz, Ingrid; Kaider, Alexandra (2007). \"The Brava External Tissue Expander: Is Breast Enlargement without Surgery a Reality?\". Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. 120 (6): 1680–1689. doi:10.1097/01.prs.0000267637.43207.19. ISSN 0032-1052. PMID 18040206.","links":[{"label":"doi:10.1097/01.prs.0000267637.43207.19","url":"https://doi.org/10.1097/01.prs.0000267637.43207.19"},{"label":"PMID 18040206","url":"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18040206/"}]}]}