Shirley Archer - Busting Out: Putting Your Best Breasts Forward

putting your best breasts forward

by SHIRLEY ARCHER

illustrations by NERYL WALKER

Text copyright 2007 by Shirley Archer

Illustrations copyright 2007 by Neryl Walker

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ISBN: 978-1-4521-2566-4

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For women,
young and old,
and the men who love
and cherish them.

May you bust out
of any limitations
and let your individual
magnificence shine,
each and every day.

ENORMOUS THANKS TO Sheila Reaves, Jane Iredale, Fabienne Guichon-Lindholm, Maani Fenwick, Joan Timell, Deidre Burke, Katherine Tomasso, Diana Schans, Danielle Wachowski, and Jolene Anello, for generously sharing expert advice on style, skin care, and makeup. Special recognition to Debra Locker for valuable introductions; Maria Argyropoulos for artistic insights; Kay McGuire and Zoran Popovic for photographic expertise; the Ladera group: Lauren Schoenthaler, Noel Hirst, Suzanne Serpas, Susan Swetter, and Dee White; and Morgan LeFahey, Monica Bowditch, and Beth Jolivette for comments. Much gratitude to Neryl Walker for creating perfect illustrations that bring feminine charm, flair, and a little bit of sass. A million thank-yous to Jodi Davis Warshaw for believing in this book as much as I do. Great appreciation to Kate Prouty for keeping me on track. Big hugs to Georgia Archer and Anthony Dominici, my sister and brother-in-law, for their constant support. Much love to Ren Eichenberger for seeing the unique beauty within me and inspiring me to bust out and share my message.

Breasts are beautiful. Fashion trends come and go, but, like the little black dress, well-kept bosomsregardless of shape or sizehave a timeless allure. From the trim elegance of Audrey Hepburn to the voluptuous sensuality of Marilyn Monroe, its clear that beauty can fill an A-cup or a triple D. The trick is knowing what to do with what youve got and making the most of your unique endowment.

In these pages youll find a fun and effective nonsurgical program to support you in creating your best bustline. Ive developed a targeted exercise program for motivated women who want to lift and firm the chest area, and Ive gathered tried-and-true fashion advice from top Hollywood stylists. If you follow even a handful of these tips, youand your admirerswill immediately notice the difference.

Its never too late to address the changes time and gravity have brought to your beloved bosoms. Effective exercises can and do make a difference in bust appearance for all womenwhether your breasts are au naturel or have had a little constructive help. During my twenty-year-plus career as a fitness and wellness pro, Ive seen women achieve dramatic results by doing the exercises outlined in Busting Out. Im excited that Im now able to share these secrets with you. Isnt it time for you to take your chests destiny into your own hands (so to speak)? Lets do it!

In these pages youll find exercises that perk up breasts, tone shoulders and arms, prevent back pain, improve posture, and help you look sexier and slimmer. Whether youre dealing with postpartum breasts, aging breasts, or breast enlargement or reduction, these exercises will help you look and feel your best. While youre toning and firming, youll also learn loads of tips from celebrity stylists to help you display your assets in their best light. Todays stars represent more diverse visions of beauty than ever before. Whether their cups runneth over or not, they all make the most of what theyve got. And you can too. In these pages youll learn their treasured tricks of the trade. In addition, an entire chapter is dedicated to bra and swimsuit fit, with fashion-styling recommendations from wardrobe experts that teach you how to flatter your figure and project your personal style.

Breasts are emotionally loaded subjects. Media portrayals of women with skinny bodies and perky, balloonlike, ultra-round, ultra-firm, and ultra-high breasts pressure even the most strong-minded among us to feel that our natural selves are somehow flawed. Those digitized glamazons are simply fantasy and illusion; no woman can achieve such looks naturally. Look at movie starlets throughout the decades, and youll see beauty in all shapes and sizes. Busting Out helps you to feel and be beautiful as yourself. Big, small, or in between, your dcolletage is a reflection of your unique allure.

Loving and accepting yourself is the first step toward bringing out your best selfa more confident and beautiful you. All the accessories in the world wont make any difference if you dont feel good about yourself. Truly beautiful women glow from within. Many clients ask me, If I accept myself, does that mean I wont change? No, not at all. The moment when you accept yourself is the moment when you begin to let your individual beauty shine.

Busting Out gives you everything you need to enhance your breasts and celebrate the beautiful, wonderful, sexy, fantastic, fabulous woman that you are. Breasts are, and have always been, the symbol of womanhood. Now is the time to reclaim our breasts in all their individual splendor and glory. Now is the time to reclaim all those pet names for breasts and to acknowledge our breasts for what they arefeminine power. Now is the time to bust out of any preconceived notions of beauty and to own the strength of our unique, sexy, and womanly selves. Ladies, get ready to get friendly with the girls and to buoy up your bazoombas!

Breasts... Theyve been romanticized, worshipped, memorialized, painted, and sculptedquite an honor for what are essentially mounds of muscle-free fatty tissue that contain milk glands.

The anatomy of the breast itself is fairly simple. The musculature of the chest wall lies on top of the collarbones and rib cage and beneath the breast tissue itself. Imagine that the chest wall is like the back of a book rack and the actual breasts are the shelves. Inside each mature breast is a mammary gland, with a network of lobes that produce milk and ducts that transport milk to the nipple. Each breast typically has between five and nine lobes. When a woman is nursing, milk from multiple ducts flows from each lobe and streams from small holes in the nipples surface like water flowing from the perforated spout of a watering can. The density of tissue in a womans breasts varies individually and also varies throughout her lifetime.