A woman whose breasts started to develop when she was just eight years old and kept growing until she was a K cup is desperately trying to save for surgery to have them reduced so she can run around with her children without being in excruciating pain.
Sheridan Larkman, 23, from Trafalgar in Victoria, Australia, had DD cup breasts at the age of 10 and they continued to grow until she could barely contain them in her lingerie.
Sheridan says she just wants to be able to run around with her daughters and that ‘no one should have to live like this’ and now she plans to fly abroad to have them reduced – because she can’t afford the $14,000 surgery in her home country.
Sheridan Larkman, 23, from Trafalgar in Victoria, Australia, has J cup breasts that she says keep growing and she’s worried she will have to fly abroad to have them reduced – because she can’t afford the $14,000 (£8,500) surgery
Sheridan’s breasts started to develop when she was 8 and they were a DD by the time she turned ten. ‘I sobbed to my mum “Why do I have to be different?”, she said.
While the other girls in her class wore pretty crop tops under their uniforms, Sheridan needed adult bras – something that didn’t go unnoticed by the boys.
‘They would tease: “Give us a look”. It was mortifying.’
Despite her mother insisting that her breasts wouldn’t get bigger, they ballooned to a G cup in high school and Sheridan became so self-conscious that she’d wear a T-shirt over her swimming costume and have to restrain them so she could play football and dance.
She started to suffer immense pain from pinning her breasts down, admitting: ‘The straps dug into my shoulders and my back ached from carrying around all the extra weight. When I turned 16 and my breasts reached an H-cup, I couldn’t take it anymore. “Is my body normal?” I asked my doctor. “Yes, it’s all part of being a woman,” he said. “They’ll settle down.”
Sheridan’s breasts started to develop when she was 8 and they were a DD by the time she turned ten. The mother-of-two now wears a double J cup
The mother-of-two was forced to order special J-cup bras from the UK and at $120 (£70) each, plus postage, they weren’t cheap. She says she just wanted to treat herself to racy lingerie
Sheridan would suffer with raw rashes under her breasts as she struggled to pin them into her lingerie
She said husband, Beau, made her feel beautiful ‘no matter what’
But just six months later, they were a double-H and red raw rashes appeared underneath each breast when the weather was hot.
‘People often gawked at me in the street and men shouted rude comments. Clothes shopping was a nightmare. If I bought a size-10 to fit my waist, my boobs would spill out over the top,’ she revealed.
When she met boyfriend, Beau, she said he made her feel beautiful ‘no matter what’.
She was forced to order special J-cup bras from the UK and at $120 (£70) each, plus postage, they weren’t cheap. ‘I would’ve loved to treat myself to lacy lingerie, but I needed scaffolding to hold my enormous boobs in place,’ she said.
Then, at 18, she fell pregnant and as her bump grew, so did her breasts. By the time her daughter, Alaska, was born, she was wearing a double-J bra.
Sheridan has to buy bras from the UK, which can cost up to £100, and she compares them to ‘scaffolding’
‘More than anything, I want to be able to run around with my girls, Alaska, now four, and Kaliese, three,’ she said
Feeling desperate for surgery, she looked into getting a reduction done privately, but it could cost around $14,000 (£8,500) – money the couple just don’t have
She recalled: ‘One day, I was picking something up off the floor when there was a pop. A wire had burst out of my bra from the weight of my boobs! I tried to sew it up but it just split again. The wire dug into my flesh, and wearing the wrong size meant I wasn’t properly supported. I hated living like this.’
After her second daughter, Kaliese, came along, Beau and Sheridan started planning their wedding and she wore her dream dress which covered her breasts with a few alterations.
After her wedding she went back to the doctor but there was no update on her case. Now a K-cup, she was still on the waiting list.
‘If I stand up straight, the pressure on my lower back and neck is agony, so I constantly lean forward. I look like a hunchback,’ she said.
Feeling desperate, she looked into getting a reduction done privately, but it could cost around $14,000 (£8,500) – money the couple just don’t have.
‘Going abroad would be cheaper, but I won’t put myself at risk,’ she said.
‘More than anything, I want to be able to run around with my girls, Alaska, now four, and Kaliese, three. Instead, I’m in constant pain. No-one should have to live like that.’
For her wedding, she wore her dream dress which covered her breasts with a few alterations
‘If I stand up straight, the pressure on my lower back and neck is agony, so I constantly lean forward. I look like a hunchback,’ she said
‘No-one should have to live like that,’ said the mother-of-two who just wants to run around with her daughters