I have a mole on my chest. It’s been there all my life. When I was a child it was so tiny, small and flat that it doesn’t notice on any of those naked in the paddling pool shots that are a staple of every child’s photo album. But as I grew older and developed my boobs, it ran out of room. Sort of scrunching up and becoming more knobbly.
Naturally, I have always been quite self-conscious about it, particularly as it is sited just under my left breast and is, I feel, rather unsightly. Things were not improved when Jo Whiley, the Radio One DJ had a ‘large mole removed from near her boob which doctors later told her was a third nipple’. Someone else told me it was actually a wart and not a mole. I’m not sure that made me feel any better at all.
Recently, I watched a programme on C4OD about triple nipples. The maker, Dan Louw, has four of them and had been led to believe he had inherited the extra two from his twin who died in the womb, although this later proved to be unfounded.
He had done a lot of research on the subject and had actually found a woman who had one under her armpit which physically lactated when squeezed!
Not long ago, Lily Allen revealed hers on The Sunday Night Project. Although I have to say that it looks more like a birthmark from this distance. Mark Wahlberg apparently also has an extra one.
I hasten to add that my mole has no areola. It doesn’t stiffen when I get aroused or cold. It hurts like hell if I knock it or catch it in the wire of my bra when I’m being sporty, so the concept of piercing it (as some people have) definitely does not appeal.
As I’ve become more attuned and observant, I have noticed that a lot of other people have a very similar type of mole. One friend had the protuberance on her neck, another on the top of her boob. The explanation seems to be that they all fall in the ‘line’ where the milk ducts would be if we were still quadrupeds (imagine the two lines down the body of cats and pigs) so, naturally, people assume that they are additional nipples.
However, that is inconsistent with the one on the side of Lily’s boob? The lactating one under the woman’s armpit? Others which I have seen on backs and also for mine which is positioned in the middle of my chest?
I have talked vaguely about having it removed a la Jo Whiley but it’s been there so long, nestled to one side of my ever-widening cleavage, that it hardly merits the effort. As Ruf said, when I’m naked, anyone else in the room tends not to be fixated by my mole when there are so many other distractions. The only time I’m really aware of it is when it gets knocked or I’m having my boobs checked for lumps.
If Scaramanga hadn’t made the concept synonymous with evil, perhaps I wouldn’t even give it a second thought.
Originally posted 2008-07-25 15:54:00. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
Hi Cake, I had two moles removed at our GP’s day surgery (In fact I was in and out in about one hour). Local anaesthetic like a wasp sting lasting a couple of seconds. After that, quick and painless, no noticeable scar. The tissue was tested and found to be benign, which I and my GP already suspected. Neither mole was larger than a pea but they did protrude from the surface of my skin and so occasionally I snagged them (or somebody else did!) and that was v painful. Worth doing.
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