You breast believe it! Surgeons reveal women no longer lust after big boobs, claiming slender stars like Gigi Hadid have made SMALLER cup sizes and 'modest' implants much more popular

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Ultra-large breast implants are on their way to becoming a thing of the past, thanks, in part at least, to slender stars like Gigi Hadid and Kendall Jenner.

According to a new report, women who go under the knife in the quest for better boobs no longer lust after large implants, but instead favor smaller cup sizes, with doctors admitting that they have seen a very clear shift in their patients' desires.  

Speaking to Moneyish, one doctor attributed the change in trends to the rise of a new aesthetic, with women veering away from larger-chested icons such as Pamela Anderson, and opting instead for smaller, but still perky, sizes such as Gigi Hadid's.

Changes: Women undergoing breast augmentations are favoring smaller, but perky, cup sizes instead of larger implants, with one of them citing Gigi Hadid (pictured), 22, as an example

'Her breasts are cute; not too big or too overwhelming, but she's still got something,' one of the women, identified only as Arvis, 26, said of the 22-year-old model.

The Huntington Beach, California patient sent her doctor, T.Y. Steven Ip, dozens of photos of Hadid in preparation for her procedure.

'I didn't want my breasts to get too much attention, so I felt like a B cup was just enough,' she added.

Another patient of Dr. Ip, identified as 30-year-old McKinley, went from her natural A cups to a B. The mom, from Orange County, explained she is 'modest' and wanted to 'enhance' her natural breasts without undergoing a dramatic transformation.

'It's like getting your hair done, or getting your nails done—it's something subtle that makes me feel like more of a woman,' she said.

Evolving: One doctor attributed the change in trends to the rise of a new aesthetic, with women veering away from larger-chested icons such as Pamela Anderson (pictured)

The trend became noticeable late last year, when a survey conducted by The Plastic Surgery Group, a practice located in London, UK, showed that women were opting for smaller nipples—a consequence of their new preference for lower cup sizes.

'During breast surgery to lift or reduce the breast the nipple is repositioned. This requires an incision around the nipple and gives the patient an opportunity to resize her nipple, consultant plastic surgeon Dan Marsh explained.

'We have always asked our patients to choose the size of their nipple during surgery rather than using a standard template. We have seen a 30 per cent rise in women requesting a smaller nipple size in the last year. This is tied into the trend towards smaller breast augmentation sizes.'

The average size requested by patients at the practice hovered between D and C cups, compared to the popular double Ds and Es that were high in demand several years ago, Marsh said.

Although patients are requesting smaller implants, breast augmentations continue to the the most popular cosmetic procedure in the realm of plastic surgery.

Their number went up by four per cent between 2016 and 2015, according to the American Society Of Plastic Surgeons, with 290,000 occurring in that time period.

Breast augmentation has been the most requested cosmetic procedure since 2006, and last year came in front of liposuction, nose reshaping, eyelid surgery and face lifts.

Smaller: Earlier this year, Real Housewife Of Orange County star Kelly Dodd, 41, downsized her implants after an augmentation. She is pictured left before and right after the reduction

However, implant removals are also on the rise, and went up by an impressive 15 per cent between 2016 and 2015, with a total of 28,467 procedures for the past year at an average cost of $2,506.

Dr. Ip pointed out that several patients have come to him asking for their implants to be removed. 

'Back when people like Pamela Anderson were more in the tabloids, people wanted to look more voluptuous,' he said. 'But now a lot of patients just want to look proportioned; they don't need to be chesty.'

Large implants can have health consequences, and patients sometimes find that their lives were easier with smaller cups.

'The bigger the breast implants are and the more they protrude from the body, the more they change the center of gravity, and the more force they exert on the spine,' orthopedic surgeon Theodore Shybut of Houston told Health in a previous interview.

Women with large breasts, whether natural or implants, sometimes have pain in their back, neck and shoulders, which might be an incentive for those who have gone under the knife to want to revert the procedure. 

Thinking about it: Model Amber Rose, who has natural 36H breasts, publicly complained about them on Instagram in July and revealed she was considering getting a breast reduction

Earlier this year, Real Housewife Of Orange County star Kelly Dodd, 41, downsized her own implants after her augmentation surgery backfired and left her with breasts that she felt were impeding on her daily activities.

'Kelly originally had a breast augmentation about three years ago and she ended up with 32 G's and it's been a nightmare ever since,' a pal told DailyMail.com at the time. 

'She's hated just about everything about them. She had trouble swinging a tennis racket, hitting a golf ball or even running. She was basically held hostage by her huge boobs.'

Dodd is not the only celebrity to have considered breast reduction. Model Amber Rose, who has natural 36H breasts, publicly complained about them on Instagram in July.

'I'm thinking about getting a breast reduction this year,' she wrote, asking other women to share their own experiences. 'My boobs are stupid heavy, my back hurts and I can't wear cute lil shirts without a grandma bra.' 

Some women who have opted to get rid of their larger implants find that they are able to move around more easily, and notice a shift in their image after the second procedure.

Dana McCoy, a fitness instructor in Newport Beach, California, went for D cups during a breast augmentation but ultimately opted to downsize them to As.

Although it felt strange at first to not have her implants after 10 years, she was soon relieved to see them gone. 

'I feel more in shape without my implants and more confident in a bikini,' Dana, now 32, told Health. 'Before, I felt like all that people saw was the girl with the big, fake boobs. Now they see me.'