Parent Q&A: Helping a daughter through breast reduction surgery

ABC News Videos | ABC Entertainment News For her eighteenth birthday, Mackenzie Langan wanted people to know her as something other than the girl with the big breasts. The teenager from Cape Cod—whose experience was chronicled in a recent episode of Nightline—underwent a double breast reduction surgery to take her G-cup chest down to a C size. Now, you “can’t take the smile off her face,” says Mackenzie’s mother, Cindy Crawford, who shared with us a parent’s perspective on coping with macromastia and getting treatment from Brian Labow, MD, at the Boston Children’s Hospital Adolescent Breast Center. When did you start to think that Mackenzie’s breast development was more than a cosmetic issue? Her bra size kept going up and up. First she was a C cup, then she came to me and said “Mom, I’ve grown out of my bra again.” She went into a DDD and eventually couldn’t fit into regular bras, so I had to take her to a specialty store. When they measured her and we found out she was a G cup, I thought, “Wow, that’s really incredible.” Then her breasts started causing her back pain, rib pain and sores. She got a lot of unwanted attention from boys on the bus ride to school. Mackenzie started to hate her body and I was worried as a parent about her developing an eating disorder. It was obviously a health issue. Did the physical symptoms and unwanted attention affect Mackenzie socially and emotionally? ...
Source: Thrive, Children's Hospital Boston - Category: Pediatrics Authors: Tags: Children's in the news Our patients’ stories parenting breast reduction. teen breast reduction Brian Labow macromastia Source Type: news