KATY Perry is back, and so are two of her finest assets – her boobs.
While the world questions if her vanishing curves are down to weight loss drug Ozempic, I’ve been in awe of her showcasing her post-breastfeeding bust.
And she is not the only star to flaunt her best bits.
Bridgerton’s leading lady Nicola Coughlan, actress Eva Longoria and model Bella Hadid are all turning their backs on the pushed-up, plastic era to go au naturel.
I Kissed a Girl singer Katy stole the show this week at Vogue World: Paris, strutting the catwalk in a cut-out archival Noir Ninomiya dress.
She then dared to bare in a fur coat with nothing below but natural cleavage.
Don’t get me wrong, she looks incredible!
But a few years ago, she would have had her bosom pushed up to her chin in a cleavage-enhancing bra. Instead, she’s letting it hang exactly as mother nature intended — save for a bit of tit tape, I imagine.
At 39, I’m the same age as Katy (and also a relatively new mum), and that’s what we did back in the Noughties — we hoisted those girls up.
Real boobs were not on trend.
It was all about pert, pushed up, or plastic assets.
If you weren’t naturally endowed with such a chest, you would get yourself a boob job, push- up plunge bras or chicken fillets.
And the trend was much more than a storm in a D-cup — with full, perky, breasts the shape of melons still the norm in showbiz land.
But it is just not reality.
The truth is that models, pop stars, actresses and reality stars, such as the Love Island stars, have often had some form of silicone assistance — whether or not they actually admit it.
Now it seems our love affair with surgically enhanced breasts could be hitting a rough patch.
In Britain, the number of boob jobs last year fell by more than a quarter compared to 2022.
And this year’s Love Islanders appear more natural in that department — certainly Grace Jackson, 25, who is coupled up with Joey Essex.
While Katy Perry definitely embraced the push-up era, she has said on record that she never had plastic surgery — and now she is celebrating her “mum boobs” era.
After Daisy, her daughter with Orlando Bloom, was born in 2020, she candidly documented her breastfeeding journey on social media.
Now she gladly showcases her slightly less pert, but just as perfect, post-breastfeeding bust.
Nicola Coughlan, Bridgerton’s Penelope Featherington, had the perfect response for a journalist who said she was “brave” to bare her body on screen.
The actress said: “I think women with my body type, women with perfect breasts — we do not see ourselves on screen enough.”
And she’s right.
She does have perfect breasts.
Her heaving cleavage has been the subject of much discussion in my female-only WhatsApp groups.
It is so refreshing to see real boobs on screen — just as it is to see them on the red carpet or the catwalk.
Recently we have seen side-boob, under-boob and upper-boob at glam fashion events.
We’ve seen little nipples, large nipples, light nipples, dark nipples.
We’ve seen tiny boobs and big boobs; boobs wide apart and boobs close together.
The rules are, there are no rules.
It’s not about whether you show leg or chest. It is whether you flash your cleavage or your nips — or a hybrid.
Basically, more is more.
On Team Nipple, we have actress Florence Pugh, plus models Edie Campbell and Bella Hadid.
On team cleavage, there is Nicola Coughlan, superstar Beyonce, model Ashley Graham, actresses Eva Longoria and Sydney Sweeney, plus TV’s Maya Jama.
YouTuber Emma Chamberlain and model Brooks Nader are somewhere in between.
As far as I can tell, their boobs are 100 per cent real.
I would never criticise women who have had breast surgery.
It was all the rage in the Noughties and we can feel pressure to have the “ideal body”.
But this celebration of natural boobs feels refreshing.
While I take heart from Katy, whose breasts have been through the pregnancy, birth and breastfeeding mill, you probably won’t catch me swanning around London in a fur coat and no undies.
Let’s learn from our confident A-listers to embrace our breasts — they are the only ones we have and, chances are, they are just perfect.
