A Brief History Of Breast Enlargements -- BBC
It is 50 years since the first breast enlargement using silicone implants. Today it rates as the second-most popular form of cosmetic surgery worldwide, undergone by 1.5 million women in 2010.
It was spring 1962 when Timmie Jean Lindsey, a mother-of-six lay down on the operating table at Jefferson Davis hospital in Houston, Texas.
Over the next two hours, she went from a B to a C cup, in an operation that made history.
"I thought they came out just perfect… They felt soft and just like real breasts," says Lindsey now aged 80.
"I don't think I got the full results of them until I went out in public and men on the street would whistle at me."
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