Summer Robert suffers from a rare medical condition, which means her boobs won’t stop growing.
It’s thought the Scot has the biggest breasts in the UK, having once grown 11 bra sizes within a year. She currently wears an R-cup.
And while it’s something completely out of her control, she says she was once pretty much banned from wearing a bikini.
Aged 28 and measuring in at just 4ft 11in, Summer's chest weighs her down by over four stone (25kg). Much of this is explained by doctors eventually diagnosing her with macromastia three years ago.
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This rare medical condition means excess breast tissue grows rapidly over time.
Summer started going to the doctors at 14 with concerns about her chest’s growth, but she was denied breast reduction surgery because her BMI was too high.
She told People: "No one told me that there was a condition. They all just said it was puberty. They all just said I had to lose weight.
"When I was diagnosed with it, the doctor literally printed a Wikipedia page and gave me the Wikipedia page."
Having worn a C-cup aged eight, she's grown by 11 bra sizes within the last year, which doctors think is because of hormonal shifts women experience in their 20s.
The medical condition has led to unwanted attention, harassment, and sexist comments.
"I used to get harassed all the time," she explained to Mamamia, with her breast size making her insecure. "I hated my body.
"I've had an ex-boyfriend's parents tell me I shouldn't be wearing a bikini in a swimming pool.
"I'm like, 'What am I meant to wear?'"
"Cover yourself up, or you have to leave"
Summer says she’s been through ‘traumatic’ experiences of getting kicked out of places and being asked to ‘cover up’.
She recalls being at a popular tourist attraction when a worker told her a guest had complained about her outfit, saying: "You need to go to the shop and buy a cardigan and cover yourself up, or you have to leave."
Since it was a boiling hot day, she chose to go, stopping at a gift shop to get a souvenir on the way out. The same worker followed her, saying: "Unless you're in here buying something to cover yourself up, you have to leave."
The first thing they said was, "Look at the size of her t*ts!"
The same kind of thing would happen while she worked as a barmaid, getting called ‘desperate’ and having drinks thrown at her.
On one occasion, customers wouldn’t let up.
"I was so tired and these two men came in, and they were clearly drunk and annoying," she recalled. "The first thing they said was, 'Oh my god, look at the size of her t*ts!"
One called her a ‘Scottish Dolly Parton’ as she added: "He kept calling me Scotch Dolly and shouting the name at me."
And while that experience left her in tears, it led to her being encouraged to start an OnlyFans to embrace her body at the age of 23. Her Instagram handle is also inspired by the incident: @scotchdolly97.
She previously told Metro: “When I was younger I hated the attention but now I just think they could be a potential buyer, and my subscribers aren’t creepy, they genuinely love my breasts and support me.”
And Summer has said she would say no to a breast reduction if offered one now unless they impact her everyday life.
“I love my body so much now,” she added to Mamamia. “I'm super confident in my own skin, and I'm happy that it's become a positive thing, because growing up it was not. But now it is, and I'm happy."
What is macromastia?
Macromastia, or gigantomastia as it is sometimes referred to, is extremely rare. Only around 300 cases have been reported.
For Summer, it means constant back pain, an inability to exercise and a huge struggle finding clothes that fit.
It can also lead to infections or lesions under your breasts, painful indentations on the skin from your bra and loss of feeling in your nipples, Cleveland Clinic explains.
It can be caused by genetics, hormonal changes like puberty and pregnancy, autoimmune conditions like lupus and arthritis, and some medications.
Sometimes medication can stop the breasts growing, while some patients opt for breast reduction surgery - but Summer has been told that going under the knife may not be effective for her.
She told People: "[The doctor] told me that they'd just come back. He said, 'If it's really causing you so much stress, you can definitely get a reduction. They'll come back, but not super, super fast."'
Summer was told she should undergo the surgery when she 'physically can't bear it anymore'.
Jess Battison