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In fiction you frequently see this with teenage and preteen girls, disappointed that they're not as "mature" as their older sisters or more-developed peers, before ultimately learning AnAesop to love their body no matter what final shape it takes. It can easily become HilariousInHindsight if the character or the actress portraying her grows up and becomes quite big-breasted as an adult.

* In the videos she uploads on Website/YouTube, Creator/TessMasazza - creator of the Italian webseries ''Insopportabilmente donna'' - seems to have a bit of a complex for her small breasts. The only moment when we see her happy [[AllPeriodsArePMS during her period]] is when she realizes that as a side-effect they have spontaneously inflated (and she immediately starts shooting selfies in her bathroom).

* Yelena Rossini from ''ComicBook/{{Transmetropolitan}}'' is just a bit touchy on the subject, which makes a certain amount of sense when you consider that she spends most of her time in close proximity to [[BoobsOfSteel Channon]]. At one point she mentions that in order to borrow one of Channon's outfits, she'd need to be "shot in the back with a couple of cruise missiles first".

** Rushia Uruha has this as a BerserkButton anytime someone cracks jokes about this, screaming "NOT PETTAN!" and that she's "boing boing." It doesn't help she's surrounded by other bustier girls like [[SchoolNurse Choco]], [[BoobsOfSteel Noel]] or [[DragonLady Coco]].

* Ruby from ''Roleplay/RubyQuest'' is flat as a board.

* WebVideo/VShojo's Nazuna Amemiya is portrayed with not much endowment, and she's bitter about it, insisting that she is "not UsefulNotes/{{pettan|ko}}".

* ''Film/NakedKiller''. Sister Cindy is telling Kitty, whom she's training as an assassin, that a woman's greatest weapon is their own body. As she explains this [[ThisIndexTouchesItself Cindy is running her hands over her 36D breasts]], causing Kitty (who's less well endowed) to ask, "What if she doesn't have tits?" She's not happy with the reply that [[AManIsAlwaysEager she doesn't need to have any to lure a man]].

* ''Film/NakedKiller''. Sister Cindy is telling Kitty, whom she's training as an assassin, that a woman's greatest weapon is their own body. As she explains this Cindy is running her hands over her 36D breasts, causing Kitty (who's less well endowed) to ask, "What if she doesn't have tits?" She's not happy with the reply that [[AManIsAlwaysEager she doesn't need to have any to lure a man]].

* Wrestling/{{n|ew world order}}Wo Girl April Hunter said that growing up, she was teased for her barely visible bust. Then after she was all grown up, Hunter was teased by the likes of Alere Little Feather for [[GagBoobs the exact opposite reason]].

This can be for a variety of reasons, but the most common anxieties are that she'll look less sexy to a LoveInterest, be mistaken for a child, or be treated as underdeveloped and immature because of her small chest.

* ''Film/NakedKiller''. Sister Cindy is telling Kitty, whom she's training as an assassin, that a woman's greatest weapon is their own body. As she explains this [[ADateWithRosiePalms Cindy is running her hands over her 36D breasts]], causing Kitty (who's less well endowed) to ask, "What if she doesn't have tits?" She's not happy with the reply that [[AManIsAlwaysEager she doesn't need to have any to lure a man]].

* In ''Objection (Tango)'', Shakira oscillates between this trope and PetitePride:

* Yelena Rossini from ''ComicBook/{{Transmetropolitan}}'' is just a bit touchy on the subject, which makes a certain amount of sense when you consider that she spends most of her time in close proximity to [[BoobsOfSteel Channon]].

* Alere Little Feather herself tends to accuse anyone with breasts larger than her own of having "fakes". That's as a {{face}} too. As a {{heel}} she tends to make these accusations while also [[{{Hypocrite}} padding her own singlet to make her boobs look bigger]]([[CharacterFilibuster it's a legit skill taught in beauty school]]!).

* ''Film/BreakfastOnPluto'': Heroinne Kitten Braden, although she prefers to call herself a "svelte gamine", as she indignantly informs the peep show customer who complains about her lack of endowment. Although in Kitten's case, this is only to be expected, since she's a [[UsefulNotes/{{Transgender}} trans woman]] and not on any sort of hormone therapy.

Many works are set in a culture where the common assumption is that "BuxomIsBetter". This standard of female beauty can be a challenge for women with smaller breasts, and while some wear the "ironing board" title [[PetitePride with pride]], others are plagued by problems of low self-esteem as a result of their... [[BuffySpeak un-bustiness]].

* In RealLife this is common enough among Japanese girls that weekly or monthly shojo manga publications more likely than not include breast enlargement ads, or at least diet ads that promise to not take anything off the rack. Aside from the usual before-after photos, exciting exclamations and shiny products, there are specific ad mangas: 8 to 12 pages of A-Cup Angst and BuxomIsBetter played straight enough to put a ruler to shame with no other content.

* In ''Film/NowAndThen'', Teeny stuffs her top with [[{{FakeBoobs}} pudding-filled balloons]], as they have a similar consistency to human breasts. As an adult, she proudly tells her friends that she is a [[{{BuxomIsBetter}} "36D, and worth every penny!"]] On the other hand, tomboy Roberta is shown binding her breasts with masking tape while lamenting [[{{DCupDistress}} "No matter what I do, they just keep getting bigger!"]]

** Val gets a song all about this ("Dance: Ten, Looks: Three"). She never grew the womanly attributes necessary for Broadway success, so she went to a plastic surgeon and got them installed. One dancer says she wishes she had ''one'' breast just like her. Val's advice, "Have 'em ''all'' done!" (In the film adaptation, she advises, "Well, go out and ''buy'' them!")

* In the 1982 comedy ''Film/TheyCallMeBruce?'', the title character goes to a massage parlour. As he's waiting in a hot tub, a beautiful masseuse enters and slips off her robe. Bruce exclaims that she is a "10", which she is quite pleased about until Bruce clarifies: "You are 10 where you should be 36." The woman looks embarrassed and sinks into the tub to hide her chest area.

* ''Film/NakedKiller''. Sister Cindy is telling Kitty, whom she's training as an assassin, that a woman's greatest weapon is their own body. As she explains this [[ADateWithRosiePalms Cindy is running her hands over her 36D breasts]], causing Kitty (who's less well endowed) to ask, "What if she doesn't have tits?" She's not happy with the reply that [[AManIsAlwaysEager she doesn't need to have any to lure a man]].

* In ''Creator/ElviraMistressOfTheDark'', one of the town residents, Patty, is this. She uses a variant of bra stuffing (falsies) to make herself seem otherwise, and keeps her small breasts a secret from the entire town... [[spoiler:until TheReveal at the picnic!]]

* [[Wrestling/LisaMarieVaron HBIC]] switched her [[WrestlingDoesntPay second]] sport from body building to [[TheCheerLeader cheer leading]] in Ultimate Pro Wrestling because she didn't like how the combination of developed chest muscles, low body fat and regulated water intake necessary to win body building contests made her breasts look.

* ''ComicBook/XMen'': ComicBook/JubileeMarvelComics sometimes took this role back then, but she has gotten bigger as she grew up. In ''Generation X'', which focused on the younger and less well-known of Xavier's students, her modest figure was used to contrast her against the model-esque [[AlphaBitch Monet St. Croix]]. Sometimes Kitty Pryde takes this role, too. But much like Swift above, when Jubilee transitioned into the ''ComicBook/NewWarriors'' relaunch, she lost her mutant powers, but gained two cup sizes in the bargain. (Granted, she was 13-14 for most of her comic history.) [[http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/5717/002b4g7c.jpg Entertainingly lampshaded]] in ''Uncanny X-Men'' #268 -- Jubilee is listening in to a conversation between Wolverine and the [[MostCommonSuperpower more commonly-endowed]] Psylocke and Black Widow. She glances up at the two women in their skintight costumes, peers down her vest to see how she matches up, and then drops her head in her hands with a frustrated expression.