Natalee Woods

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Boob Job: Unexpected Adventures of a Department Store Bra Fitter

The birth of Boob Job transpired my last year of graduate school at CalArts. I fit women for bras in West Hollywood the summer before and spent the majority of my time off trying to write a thesis. I’ve always been deeply interested in women’s studies, knowing that I wanted to write something that was representative of today’s women with real emotional power.

 

I remember fitting a woman for lingerie whose sole purpose was getting her husband back after she caught him in bed with his young, vigorous secretary—the same secretary who watched the couple’s children on occasion while they enjoyed a night out. She was flustered and lonely and completely out of her element. But she was determined.

I watched her study her body in the three-way mirror, crying to the point of breathlessness. I drove home that night thinking about her standing in the dressing room, stuffing her wilted boobs into small red-laced cups, hoping to regain her own youth, and more importantly, her lost identity. I realized at that point that I have honest, compelling stories to share.

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