I received a concerned email from a teenager who was almost out of her teenhood and had one breast that was considerably larger than the other – by about one cup size.  She said she had asked her doctor whether she could do anything about it and he advised that she was most likely still going through puberty and breast growth and they may catch up to on another, but that there was really nothing to do until they both finished growing. 

She, understandably, is very concerned and self conscious about her breasts being noticeably different sizes, and wanted to know if there was anything she could do naturally that would help the other one catch up to the larger one, to make them more symmetrical and the same size.  Here is how I responded:

I know this seems very difficult and you feel very self conscious about it, I actually have a friend who had the same condition, and she ended up getting surgery to correct it with small breast implants (see our page on breast implant alternatives – this was not in our response to this young lady though, because this is not going to work differently on both breasts), filled to different sizes for each breast, to make them look even.  This is actually a very common problem in women, so please don’t feel like you’re alone.  In fact, one of mine is ever so slightly larger than the other – most women have a slight difference, just to varying degrees.
 
Unfortunately, there is no natural way that I know of that you can get one breast to grow more than the other.  There is no guarantee that if you used some sort of external cream or anything and massage that your one breast that is smaller would grow larger.  Since you are still most likely going through the growth phase with your breasts, you may need to simply wait this one out, and if when you are fully grown and your growth stabilizes, they are still noticeably different and it is a real issue for you, I would consider talking to your doctor about cosmetic surgery options to get this corrected. 
 
Like I said, this is a very common problem in women, and varies in it’s severity, in fact many women do choose to get surgery if it bothers them a lot, so please do not feel alone.  I’m sorry I couldn’t offer you more options, but this is a case where natural methods simply cannot be guaranteed to make both the breasts grow the same amount, which would still leave you with the discrepancy in breast size.  Good luck, and thank you so much for writing. 

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