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Hey, everybody, it's Marielle.
In 2005, Oprah Winfrey aired this famous segment on her talk show.
So I'm going to ask you to do something I've never asked you to do before.
This may sound a little crazy, but right now, this very second, those of you who are watching, I want you to take off your shirt.
Okay.
I'm here to announce that eight out of ten women, maybe even more, are wearing the wrong bra.
The 80% claim is hard to fact check, but there are several studies out there that suggest many women, left to their own devices, are wearing the wrong size bra.
It could be that they had a bra that fit perfectly and then their body changed, or maybe they never found the right bra because their local stores didn't carry their size or because they just didn't know how to get fitted.
The thing is, if you are wearing the wrong bra size, that can be pretty miserable.
I compare it sometimes with shoes, because if you don't wear the right size shoe, you're uncomfortable the whole entire time.
Right.
And then you also have wide feet and narrow feet, and you have 1ft that's bigger than the other.
Well, it's all the same with bras.
That's Laura Henne.
She's a bra Fitter and the owner of the rackshack a bra shop in New York City.
Everybody comes here all ages.
Got a lot of sex workers that come here.
I specialize in trans fittings.
I'm specialized in big boob fittings.