Women with Three Boobs, Fact or Fiction?

We have covered many interesting topics in the area of biology over the years and this being a previously popular topic we are are bringing it back from 2011, updated for 2024. The question is…

Are there any women with three breasts?

We are told that there is an adult video of actress “Taylor Chanel” who has three breasts. She claims, in the video to have been born with the three. Here is a cropped safe for work still image:

The makeup job and prosthesis are very good, excellent blending to match her own skin, but she never had three before that video. People on the net have pointed out that she made other videos and in those she has only two. Here is a safe for work photo of Taylor.

So, myth busted … pardon the pun.

Photoshop Fakes

Who can dig up the real name of the model in the following photo? We suspect this is just a Photoshop fake rather than a model with a false boob.

The above is for a beer advertisement, also a fake. Here is another Photoshop job based on certain signs in the image. It was first found according to TinEye.com on Jun 11, 2013:

A bit of digging showed the original first appeared about five months earlier on Jan 26, 2013:

So, are there no three breasted women, then?

In reality, there can be.

Polymastia

There is a real condition that can cause one or more extra breasts to grow. This is from Wikipedia:

Accessory breasts, also known as polymastia, supernumerary breasts, or mammae erraticae, is the condition of having an additional breast. Extra breasts may appear with or without nipples or areolae. … In some cases, the accessory breast may not be visible at the surface. In these cases, it may be possible to distinguish their appearance from normal breast tissue with MRI. In other cases, accessory breasts have been known to lactate, as illustrated in a woodcut showing a child nursing at ectopic breast tissue on the lateral thigh …Polymastia results from the eruption of extra breasts usually along the milk line that extends from axillae to groin. While the location of this tissue is established during embryonic development, it may not become apparent or troublesome until puberty or lactation. In extremely rare cases, extra breasts may appear ectopically on the neck, face, upper arm, shoulder, back, buttock, hip, vulva, perineum, thigh, or even foot.

via Wikipedia

 

In structural anomalies or anatomic variants of the breast, the presence of a supernumerary nipple is more common than the presence of supernumerary breast tissue with or without an associated nipple-areolar. Accessory mammary tissue is more common in women 2 to 6 percent than in men 1 percent.1 Incidence also varies among ethnic groups; accessory mammary tissue is more common in Asian women than in black or white women

via Photo Quiz – May 1, 2000 – American Academy of Family Physicians.

There you have it. Yes. The answer is yes, it is possible to have an extra breast and/or nipple grow in many places but there is no medically confirmed case yet in 2019 where an extra breast was found growing in the center between two otherwise healthy ones.

Body Modification

It is possible, of course to have breast implants and there are prosthetic breasts for women who have lost one or both breasts to cancer, so it should not be a surprise that someone with two normal breasts eventually found a plastic surgeon willing to give her an artificial third. A woman named Jasmine Tridevil who works as an entertainer (but does not do nudes) claims to have had this done.