Exclusive | Big implants go bust! NYC women are getting yoga boobs and hoping nobody notices: Strong but petite

The hottest club in NYC is the itty-bitty committee.Bye-bye to “Baywatch” boobs — small breasts are suddenly a big deal in plastic surgery, with Big Apple women lining up for barely noticeable augmentations, whether through implants or fat grafts.Dubbed “yoga boobs” or “ballerina breasts,” the au naturel appearance — which takes its name from women with slender, athletic builds — has cropped up in doctors’ offices around town and even across the nation, amid a rise in “undetectable” aesthetics.It’s a stark contrast from the plastic surgery heyday of the early 2000s, when exaggerated busts reigned, according to Park Avenue plastic surgeon Dr.Lara Devgan.She receives 50 to 100 inquiries per month for “yoga boobs,” which she describes as “enough to fill out a sports bra while maintaining a sleek, sculpted silhouette.”“The uptick has coincided with the growing rise in weight loss medications including GLP1s,” she told The Post.
“There has been an overall societal trend toward slimness, and balanced and proportionate breasts are a huge part of that.”New York surgeon Dr.Darren Smith told The Post that he too has gotten a higher concentration of interested patients than five years prior, and has 20 to 30 requests for the low-profile procedure every month.“They want something kind of strong but petite,” he said of the “yoga boobs” fad.“They’re not so much doing it to get other people’s attention, but they just want a little bit more volume to fill out there their physique,” he said.
“They want breasts that look like they have always been there and that they just fit their frame very nicely.”New Yorker Gianna Mazzilli, 25, knew she “never wanted big boobs” — like the “fake-looking, big, Baywatch-looking boobs,” she noted.She struggled with asymmetrical breasts, but post-op, no one would be the wiser.In fact, it looks so natural that her friends couldn’t even tell.“I didn’t want them to look fa...