Sixty years ago this spring, there was a huge — literally — shift in women’s bodies. For such a fundamental change, it happened almost by accident.
Timmie Jean Lindsey, a 29-year-old mother of six, went into hospital in Houston, Texas, for a routine operation to remove a tattoo from her breast.
Her two surgeons, Frank Gerow and Thomas Cronin, persuaded her to undergo a new procedure, which until then had only been tested on dogs: breast implants. She went from