In the aptly titled USA Today article “Buoyed by Bigger Breasts,” Rita Rubin explores the world of soccer moms who want breast augmentation. She declares that breast augmentation is no longer just for strippers, movie stars, the wealthy and other select few but for the average middle class (probably Caucasian) women.
Nicole Cummings, a woman who had breast augmentation, created  a website called implantinfo.com to provide a resource for women who wanted to know about their surgical options.

In 2003, Cummings featured a survey on her site.  The survey was funded by the Aesthetic Surgery Education and Research Foundation. What surprised me were the results:

• The average age of women with implants was 34 years old.
• A third of the 3,500 respondents were in a long term relationship (marriage, live in partner etc.)
• Almost 50 % had a  BA.

There are a few assumptions being made here: (1) the respondent of the survey is an average woman (2) there is commonly held belief that women who have breast implants/ breast augmentation are single, younger than 30, and not college educated.

Clearly, scholars, writers and researchers will need to take economic status, race, class, education level, age and relationship status when creating a profile of a woman with breast implants or breast augmentation. I know my image of the average woman with breast augmentations has slightly changed after reading this article.