making everyday tasks very difficult to perform. she underwent breast reduction surgery to relieve her pain. surgeons removed 4.25 kilograms (9.4 lb) from one breast and 3.33 kilograms (7.3 lb) from the other breast. on october 29, 2009, the philippine television network gma news and public affairs, producers of wish ko lang ("just my wish") hosted by vicky morales, profiled the story of pilma cabrijas, a 30-year-old woman affected by gigantomastia. the woman was told by a folk healer that her condition may have been caused by a curse. the measured bust circumference without appropriate bra support was 160 cm (63 in). the weight of her breasts was not reported in detail, but seemed to weigh "as much as two children." she had breast reduction surgery performed, but her breasts regrew. the producers of wish ko lang paid for additional surgery. in 2023, a woman in canada with size z breast, that many believed were fake, claimed to have gigantomastia. virginal breast hypertrophy in 1993, the japanese journal surgery today reported on the case of a 12-year-old girl. only 152 centimetres (60 in) tall and weighing 43 kilograms (95 lb), her breasts began to develop at age 11 before the onset of menstruation. over the next eight months, both breasts grew abnormally large, and physicians treating her found that her physiological development was normal except for her breasts. the weight produced by their symmetrical and massive enlargement resulted in marked curvature of the spine. lab tests of her blood for hormones and biochemical substances showed normal values, though tests revealed that it might have been caused by hypersensitivity to estrogen. she underwent a bilateral reduction mammoplasty. surgeons removed 2 kilograms (4.4 lb) of tissue from her right breast and 1.9 kilograms (4.2 lb) from her left breast. she was administered tamoxifen afterward to suppress breast regrowth. a more severe case of virginal breast hypertrophy of an 11-year-old girl was reported in 2008. the breasts had begun to grow rapidly at puberty and had reached the point of causing physical impairment and respiratory compromise after one year. the skin was intact without any ulcerations. blood chemistry and endocrine investigation was normal. a bilateral reduction mammaplasty with free nipple grafts was performed. 6 kg (13 lb) of the right breast and 6.5 kg (14 lb) of the left breast were removed, resulting in a removal of 12.5 kg (28 lb) of tissue in all (24% of the total body weight).