Nigeria, July 13 -- Weeks after weaning her only child, Bisi Komolafe, a perky 30-year-old Ibadan-based entrepreneur and brand influencer, stood in front of her bedroom mirror.

Her breasts-once firm and her favourite physical feature-had sagged and shrunk. "It was gone," she said quietly, her voice tinged with disbelief. Years earlier, she joked about her mother's drooping breasts. "My mother would say, 'Don't worry, your turn will come,'" she recalled. Two years after giving birth to her son, the reality has hit her.

She noticed the changes toward the end of her pregnancy in 2023. "Seeing it drop, touching my body, I was uncomfortable. I wasn't happy," she said.

Breasts- aside their physiological function of milk production for breast...