discuss: can sleeping on my stomach flatten my breasts?
Question: Can sleeping on my stomach flatten my breasts? My mom says it does. I'm not sure if she's right, but I do sleep on my stomach. I really love my boobs, but I have a strange feeling they are becoming flatter and flatter...
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Posted by gURL on May 8 '08 in category ask a gURL
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That's like saying your butt will go flat if you sit on it too much. All thats happening is your boobs are being pressed more tightly against your chest, but their not ACTUALLY going to flatten.
Posted by: Jasmine | Aug 09, 2008 at 06:09 PM
lol of course they won't go flat. I've been sleeping on my tummy my whole life. I've got boobs since I was eight (weird, I know) & I'm 17 now. I wear a 34C & they're still as round as ever lol
Posted by: sherrymarie | Aug 09, 2008 at 10:17 AM
my friend is flat chested and blames it on sleeping on her tummy
but she also says that you wont get fat if you lay on your tummy after a meal
i'm testing that theory
Posted by: tag ur it | Aug 02, 2008 at 09:00 AM
uh...i dont think thats possible unless you lie on your stomach every night for years and years and years. if you have only been doing that for a few weeks or months, i dont think that its really going to affect you. i used to think that i had scoliosis cause i slouch so much, but a doctor checked me and said i was fine. your just imagining that your getting flatter.
Posted by: bubbles | Aug 01, 2008 at 03:32 AM
i'm not too sure about that. I cant really tell cuz my boobs are so freaking flat. I think my boobs wont grow cuz i sleep on my stomach. my boobs used to be both a 32A and now the right is a 30A and the left is smaller than that! they havnt grown in one freaking year. what the hell is going wrong?!?!
Posted by: C0nfused | Jun 29, 2008 at 12:51 AM
idk cuz i sleep on my stomach and in da mornin my boobs do hurt but sometimes to help dat i sleep on or just my top on a pillow so idk
Posted by: tt | Jun 23, 2008 at 11:25 AM
no not really my boobs are really big and they never gotten smaller, i've been sleeping on my my stomach for quite a while but no thats a myth!
Posted by: Dream | May 17, 2008 at 09:10 PM
no cuz i have huge tits and they havent gotten any smaller....they wont stop growwin...im 18 and im almost a double d hunny!!! dont worry ive been sleeping on these things like there mah pillow lol
Posted by: kaitlyn | May 17, 2008 at 01:05 AM
If you sleep on your stomach, isn't the stomach that will get smaller other than the boobs? i hope my tummy will go FLAT after i sleep on them..
haha
Posted by: Simin | May 15, 2008 at 07:48 AM
naww..i thought that too cause when i sleep on my boobs they hurt like hell...
Posted by: AiiYANNA | May 14, 2008 at 02:30 AM
I wiiiiiiiiish! boobs are so annoying. they are my weakness (aka getting hit in them)
Posted by: Midori | May 13, 2008 at 07:14 PM
haha, that's not true.
i have a huge butt,
and i sit on it all day,
and honey... it's not getting any smaller
:P
Posted by: Amanda | May 12, 2008 at 06:40 PM
Well, as a child, I slept on my back. As I got older, I slept on my stomach and side more- while my breasts were growing. I suppose that over a very long time it could stretch the skin and change the shape of them, but it definitely doesn't make them shrink.
Posted by: Nicole | May 12, 2008 at 04:05 PM
well if its true it would come after years of sleeping on your stomach but i was actually told beofre that that happens... but if you realyl wanna know why not just look it up on the net
Posted by: na | May 11, 2008 at 10:51 PM
well if its true it would come after years of sleeping on your stomach but i was actually told beofre that that happens... but if you realyl wanna know why not just look it up on the net
Posted by: na | May 11, 2008 at 10:50 PM
If you sleep with your arm tucked under your head, will your arm warp out of shape? Breasts are very malleable body tissue - I wouldn't worry.
Posted by: adanarama | May 09, 2008 at 10:47 PM
i don't think calling her mom "stupid" is very smart. there are a lot of myths involving boobs and periods and a whole lot more. i've been told a lot of things too, but the fact that they aren't true does not mean they are stupid.
Posted by: noe | May 09, 2008 at 09:42 PM
ha...yeah you tell my size d boobs that sleeping on them will flatten them.. i sleep on my stomach.. and my boobs are just as large and perky and all up in the way as ever...boobs are made of fat cells along with glands...if sleeping on your stomach cant make your stomach flatter..it wont harm your boobs
Posted by: Amy | May 09, 2008 at 12:38 PM
I highly doubt the way you sleep affects the way your breasts sit. I have heard "myths" (or atleast that's what i call them because i dont believe) what bra you wear affects the way your breasts will sit. I just think the way they are is the way they are and the only changing them is going to come from surgury.
Posted by: Maria | May 09, 2008 at 10:13 AM
I wish!
Posted by: Michelle | May 09, 2008 at 02:42 AM
HOLY your mom is obviously stupid or something. that's the most ridiculous thing I have EVER heard in my life.
Posted by: Stace | May 08, 2008 at 07:10 PM
noo. i dont think this is true at all. I have pretty huge boobs for my size. and i sleep on my boobs all the time. .. they're still the same. and dont look any smaller.
Posted by: Lina | May 08, 2008 at 03:23 PM
hahaha omgawd that so isnt true! lol. if thats true, then wouldnt it be the same logic for fat ppl to sleep on their stomach cuz they'll get skinnier??
Posted by: Magz | May 08, 2008 at 02:03 PM
LOL wta loads of crap, no it doesn't! i sleep on my stomach and my boobs are fine, it may be psychological that you think ur boobs are gonna get flatter if you sleep on ur stomach.
Posted by: puffy | May 08, 2008 at 11:21 AM
This is the first I've heard of it.
Posted by: Lulu | May 08, 2008 at 09:16 AM