Tuberous Breast Deformity is a type of congenital breast deformity which manifests for the first time in young girls when the breasts are fully developed by the age of 18-20 years. It has been called by various other names like Tubular breasts, snoopy breasts, weird boobs, tube boobs etc.
The deformity can seriously affect these young women with body shame and self-hate.
I was moved by one such patient who walked into my clinic and described her suffering due to the tubular breasts, “I’d always believed that my breasts were weird but only realised they were so weird when I happened to glance at my cousins’ whilst she was changing in my room! She had a perfect pair, full, pear shaped and equal. My Breasts looked nothing like that. Mine were small, pointy, shaped like a tube and puffy like a snout at the end and on top of that they were unequal! Doctor can you fix them because my life depends on them!”