7-year-old Girls with Breasts

        Compared to studies done in 1997 more 7-and-8 year-old girls are developing breasts. Elizabeth Braw, author of “7-year-old Girls with Breasts”, states that Dr. Frank Biro said “people judge children by how old they look”.  From a very young age, we are judged by the way we look.

        Many girls mature faster than boys. As a child, I was one of those girls that developed breasts at the tender age of eight. I had the body of a teenager but mind of an 8 year old. As I got older, my breasts kept growing. It was strange for me to have breasts at such an early age because none of my female family members had big breasts.

        Breasts on a girl child can make her look much older than she really is. At the age of 10 years old, I was already wearing a B-cup bra. When I went to visit my mother in Guyana, she was shocked to see her baby girl with breasts. My mother kept me close by her side. Some of her friends thought I was her little sister. Til this day people ask my mother and I if we are sisters whenever we go out together.

        When you look at a girl, breasts are one of the first things you notice about them. For years I was ashamed of my body because I had breasts, while the other girls in my class didn’t have breasts. I used to wear loose T-shirts to try and hide them, but that didn’t work. It wasn’t until after high school I felt more comfortable in my body.

        Having breasts does not make you a woman. It’s how you conduct yourself that makes you a woman. These days we as a society concentrate more on looks than we do on personality. A girl child with breasts may have the body of a woman, but the fact is she is still a child and should be treated as a child.