What do you call "big'?
Yup I wonder, from what size do you think "big boobs"? What is "heavy boobs"?
Please stipulate here which fitting method you use since +4 boobs are always bigger than +0 in the same cup size.
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Big boobs are relevant to the size of the body and the one looking at it. Heavy boobs are anything weighing over 3-4lb a boob which could be any size depending on band and cup combination. And it also depends on fat vs glandular tissue, right? One adds more weight than the other.
I have this weird duality in the way I think about my breasts. Some days I think 'oh they're massive', and other days I think 'well... they're not that big'. I realise that by any objective standard, the fact that they 1. Displace well over 2 litres each now and 2. I'm outside the current commercially available size range both imply that they're big, but they don't always feel big to me. Some days they do though.
I'd say women who are the second standard deviation or higher (so above the 66th percentile) in either overall volume or cupsize have 'large breasts' if I was to define it objectively.
I think there's also general assumptions about projected breasts seeming to be larger than shallower ones and such even if they are a comparable volume/weight.
I also seriously wonder where people get some of their breast weight figures from. I have fairly large, reasonably dense breasts, and at a guess, they're somewhere around 2.5kg each? I've tried weighing them a few times but never struck on a particularly accurate method. That's only ~5 pounds per breast. I've seen some really absurd figures thrown around before in the media.
Edit: Vaguely relevant table from a bra size survey taken on r/abrathatfits a couple of months ago.
http://i.imgur.com/F2rHZbH.jpg
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