I try to avoid my cleavage but it's everywhere. It's even places it's not supposed to be and not in a good way.

I love my cleavage after 50. When I was 48 I had breast cancer, and had to have bilateral mastectomies. I had reconstruction surgery. It took 5 surgeries to cut the cancer and rebuild the anatomy. Of course, I'm not real (saline implants) but I have cleavage like I had at 15. It's funny. I hated my breasts when I was 13, 14, 15 because I was a 34 D, and Twiggy was the "it" girl. I always had to wear a bra, could not run for my life lest the breasts fly up and hit me in the chin, and got more stares and whistles than I ever ever wanted. Then, when I was facing mastectomy, I grieved before -hand the loss of the breasts. You see, the bigger they are, the harder they fall, and mine fell to my knees. My plastic surgeon could not wait to get her hands on my old breasts and give me new ones. I said I did not want to be bigger or smaller than before; I just wanted to be in the right place. For the first time in my life I can go without a bra. So, I'm happy now that I have cleavage in all the right places. Except now I need to get my butt back to its proper position, and my NECK is beginning to scare me with its creepiness!

You look so petite, Lynnie. Hard to imagine you with a size D. Now you don't need a bra? Well that's every women's dream.
As a young woman, I was pretty flat chested. Now I'm twice as big. Has something run a muck here?
I could never understand any woman wanting to enlarge their breasts. I loved having "less". It's more comfortable, and I think the sleek look is classier.
Sigh, those were the days my friends .

I am small boned and about 5 feet 4 inches. My large chest was quite obvious. I don't think one look is "classier" than another. We have to embrace our bodies. I was taught that lesson in a big way while going through cancer. My mother is 5 feet tall. She was a 34 DD. By the time I was 13, I was borrowing her bras because I was too self-conscious to buy my own, and too embarrassed for her to go shopping with me (a teen thing.) She lost a breast to cancer, as did my grandmother, and neither chose reconstruction. I remember when I was in my early 20s and some guy in the office said to me "When you got it, flaunt it." I was so embarrassed. Today, his comment would be considered sexual harassment. Those days, I would have preferred a figure like Peggy Lipton, or Farah Fawcett, or Jackie Kennedy, Olivia Newton-John. Oh how I envied their figures. Oh, another thing: Ds were hard to come by. I would go to Pennys in the 70s and they would sell up to 34 C. Nowadays, it's easier to get bras in D cups because there is so much enhancement. One recent year, 41 of the 51 Miss America contestants had had implants. Anyway, cleavage or not, I think we should do what is most comfortable and authentic for us, no matter our breast size!

I agree with Lynnie. Do what is comfortable and what makes you feel great. I am small breasted, but have that wrinkly cleavage thing going on. So what? If I want to wear a low cut blouse or dress, and someone sees a few wrinkles, I don't mind. And then, somedays, I like to wear a turtleneck.

I am going to be proud of what my body looks like, no matter the wrinkles or the dimples. I do try to take care of my looks, but won't let wrinkels dictate what I hide and what I show. At least, I am not ready yet.

I don't have the "wrinkles" unless I shove my breast together, toward the middle. David always tells me when I'm wearing something a little low cut to be aware that men stare and how I always get upset when they do so I'm basically setting myself up if I do wear it. I don't have many low cut tops. It's too cold here anyway! Frozen boobs.

I agree with doing what makes you feel good.

Did any of you nurse? I have friends who complained that they lost their boobs when they finished nursing. Funny thing. I didn't. Mine got bigger. That, and the twenty pounds I've gained through the years has added to my chest. What fun.

Don't know about that Dots, but Jane's a nurse, we could ask her. What? What did I miss?

Joan Rivers says she has to hem her nipples every morning so she doesn't trip on them.

Dotsie, I nursed both my kids and it didn't affect my boob-style at all. I've never been the perky, uplifted type anyway - my best friend has those and didn't nurse because she didn't want to lose that. I felt nursing was more important that what my boobs looked like in 20 years.