Tudor chests and that cringey Bri...
Tudor chests and that cringey Britney Spears interview

For Tits and Giggles by Jessica Martin-Weber

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Weird and inappropriate attention given to the chests of women is a tale as old as time… from Anne Boleyn to Britney Spears.

Why did women of the Tudor era wear fashions that flattened their chests? Why was the style for Medieval women and Tudor women to be flat chested? There were even poems about flat chests and weird rituals to try and keep them nice and flat and perky, warnings to teen girls to not grow them large… as if they had any say over how their mammary glands grew.

In another bizarre obsession with a teen girl's chest, we’re taking a look at the cringy Britney Spears interview with Ivo Niehe when she was just 17 years old. It wasn’t good then, a couple decades later this interview aged like vomit. While everything about the interview was repulsive, watching the young Britney handle this wildly inappropriate questioning w ... 

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womenhistorybreastsbreastwomen's historybreastfeedingcelebritybreast implantsfashionBritney Spearsrenaissancetudorbreast size