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Sad story:Woman reveals how her mother ironed her breasts at age 13 The practice of breast ironing involves a girl’s chest being pressed down with a hot stone to delay breast formation. A girl who suffered the procedure is pictured in Cameroon in May 2007 A woman has revealed how her mother ironed her breasts to suppress the growth at a tender age of 13. The victim, named only as ‘Simone’, is among up to 1,000 women and girls in Britain feared to have undergone the painful and dangerous procedure. The practice of breast ironing involves a girl’s chest being pressed down with a hot stone to delay breast formation. Breast ironing, also known as breast flattening, is the pounding and massaging of a pubescent girl’s breasts, using hard or heated objects, to try to make them stop developing or disappear. Hot stone is normally used to iron The perpetrators consider it a traditional practice that protects girls from unwanted male attention, sexual harassment and rape. But e...